Blanks from China. Uh, no thanks…
Ever since the abrupt closure of Clark Foam in Dec 2005 sleazy opportunist are stampeding to get into the surfboard blank market. Here is an example of the typical garbage that is coming from the new blank factories in communist China.
Alan_M
March 1, 2007That’s the new asymetrical blank from cheapco!
Remember the asymetrical shapes (I think Caster was making them) in the ’80’s? Cheapco is prepping for a resurgence of the design. Very forward thinking, those Chinese!
pushingtide
March 1, 2007Gross.
Anonymous
March 1, 2007Expect to see them at Walmart soon since 10% of their exports go to that retailer!
Who's Your Daddy
March 1, 2007BEST PHOTO EVER!!!!!!!
Anonymous
March 1, 2007I think you could squeeze a “Thumb” out of that mess.
Nuno
March 1, 2007for ecological reasons…you can use that for art work! instead throw that crap it in the trash bin. 😀
Anonymous
March 1, 2007fucking disgrace.
rob70
March 1, 2007I bet a board made with that blank would pull to the right like a car with 3 wheels. 😀
Anonymous
March 1, 2007no wonder my self shaped boards came out bad, i used those brand of blanks!
this explains alot and helped my ego
-drad 0ut
Patch
March 2, 2007Seriously, I just puked in my mouth.
Anonymous
March 2, 2007What are you guys complaining about?
They practically invented pottery and the wheel. You got the clay there.
I can see them joking right now. Stupid Americans, they think they are the best, lets see them do something with this.lol
Anonymous
March 2, 2007where did the blank come from? Who made it?
Anonymous
March 2, 2007If someone taked the picture of it, maybe otherone buyed it! Who buy blanks from China?!
reverb
March 2, 2007..”Who buy blanks from China?!”
the merchants, not the custom builders…
Anonymous
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Anonymous
March 2, 2007Me Chinese.. me play joke… me go p-p in your coke.
justin
March 2, 2007all of donald takayama boards are shaped with china foam now a days.
Anonymous
March 2, 2007That’s a big oops at the factory alright…
But at the end of the day if you don’t
like it or have no use for it don’t buy it.
Shit doesn’t discriminate- China, Europe,
the Americas even here in the good old
USA! Tired of China/Asian “pop out”
bashing is all… It’s simple people if you
think it’s crap don’t buy it!
As representatives of world travel and
an openess to other cultures, I think
some of us may be missing the point.
fsacto
Jp
March 2, 2007I want to make it clear that we did NOT buy that blank and that it does NOT belong to us nor is it at Moonlight. That photo was taken with spy cam at another place, hee hee.
Anonymous
March 3, 2007Dat blank vary niceeeee! We make top knotch for America surfboarders! Don’t try knock before try. We learn pinlines and acid splash and we make moonlight international power. We pay you more money than sam.
-sum ting wong
Rob?royal
March 3, 2007don’t know if i should laugh, or cry
Jgirl
March 7, 2007I loved this addition to the blog if only for the comments. So great!
pointsurfbaja
March 10, 2007Maybe Scott Bass can convince Kelly Slater to ride a board made from one of those assymetrical Chinese blanks then save the surf industry. From his editorial of Slater as Savior.”The surf industry loses. The surf industry needs Kelly Slater to win number nine this year. The economic trickle down effect Slater brings to the spreadsheet is large. This guy is mainstream. He transcends the sport. He may get paid by Quiksilver, but every company benefits from Slater’s ability to merge beautifully timed wrap-around cutbacks with beautifully timed bounce back relationships with beautifully stripped drives toward the tree on eighteen at Pebble Beach, with beautifully timed finger movements up the fret board with Eddie Vedder.”
If the companies are paid by getting cheap crappy blanks from exploited opressed foreigners, then let the industry implode.
SURFMONKS UNITE!