My Working Quiver 2008
By popular request, here is my current working quiver:
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A. 6’6″ Malcolm Campbell Bonzer5-US Blank, bamboo siderunners, glassed with Resin-X (unfinished, currently in production, pulled out of factory for photo shoot)
B. 6’3″ Malcolm Campbell Bonzer5-Clark Foam. This board is *magic*
C. 5’8″ Malcolm Campbell Bonzer3 Light Vehicle Stub. US Blank, bamboo siderunners. A favorite!
D. 6’3″ Evolution Double Ender shaped by Wayne Lynch-Clark Foam. 2+1 center box with Lokbox sides.
E. 5’10” Mark Richards 80’s style twin fin. #49 of 500 shaped. Foam unknown. Glassed with 4 oz S glass. Glass-on fins.
F. 5’7″ Rich Pavel Speedialer quad with vanishing tapered stringer. Clark Foam. Lokbox fin system. 4 oz S glass.
G. 5’7″ Gary Hanel twin Fish with removable bamboo “Lowboys” by 101 Fin Co. 4 oz S glass. Tiki pinlines. Resin tint.
H. 5’9″ Thumb with Bonzer5 system. I love this surfboard. You can watch Rob Machado glassing it in the Moonlight YouTube video in the links on the right. Clark Foam.
I. 5’6″ Shawn Ambrose “Sputnik” stringerless. Bennett foam glassed with 5 oz Resin-X. Lokbox fin system. Star Wars artwork.
J. 5’4″ Shawn Ambrose Sputnik5 with all bamboo glass-on fins. Stringerless. Ice-9 foam. 1990’s carbon fiber strips.
K. 5’8″ Shawn Ambrose Sputnik quad with parabolic rail stringers. Star Wars tiki pinlines.
L. 6’6″ Guy Takayama GWAT. Clark Foam.
M. 6’3″ Channel Islands Flyer II. Shaped and signed by Al Merrick as a wedding gift. D-Size cloth, Red-X fin System. Cosmic airbrush.
N. 5’7″ Mandala 2+1 Stub by Manuel Caro. Tapered stringer. King Mac foam. Bamboo and Kiri glass-on wood fins by 101 Fin Co.
O. 5’11” Marlin Bacon tri-fin. Agave and balsa glass-on fins by John Cherry. Clark Foam.
15 boards total plus this one,
P. 6’1″ Bonzer that got killed on the biggest day of the winter a few years back. *sob* Clark Foam.
It’s a pretty decent batch of boards with some gaps that need to be filled. Who knows what the quiver will look like this time in 2009?
Niegà
April 30, 2008And you never have doubts about which one to take to the beach??
Niegà
Nuno
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Nuno
April 30, 2008Which one would you pick? if you have to have only one
Anonymous
April 30, 2008i guess this would be the ‘curse’ or ‘blessing’ of owning a glass shop and knowing all those guys….my wife would kill me in my sleep !!!!!!!!!!!walrus
J.P.
April 30, 2008I have a board coming from Danny Hess, I’d like to get a longboard from Terry Martin and I gotta get that young twerp DK to shape me somethin’. I also need a real big wave board just in case. It’s kind of weak that my biggest board is only 6’6″.
Franco S. Boroughs
April 30, 2008curious … what is your size height and weight? and does your winter quiver differ from your non winter quiver? in other words, what adjustments do you make when youre wearing a thicker wetsuit?
i came up on a used 6’3 light vehicle, 5 fin. the board is amazing. i ride it whenever it turns on. im 5’9 about 178 without a wettie on. i can tell im really going to like the board in the summer sans wetsuit .. but i like it a lot with the wetsuit on too, just tougher to surf with all the bulk.
J.P.
April 30, 2008I am 5’7″ and 155 pounds. I ride these boards all year round. Where I live the waves are mostly smallish even in the winter. I’ve found that I can ride the sub 6 foot boards in head high to overhead surf if I have the right fins. The 6’6″ Bonzer should handle the juicer days when a lot of water is moving around.
The only board I can’t ride with a fullsuit is the 5’4″ Ambrose. That board requires a springsuit or less.
J.P.
April 30, 2008Nuno, it sounds crazy but I never get conflicted. I either have an itch to ride a particular board or I just grab a random one. If I have a couple of hours to surf I will take 2 or 3 to the beach with me and trade off.
Bob
April 30, 2008Dude. Al totally got me the same thing for my wedding present.
Anonymous
April 30, 2008Does the 5’7″ Pavel & the 5’8″ Ambrose feel at all similar?? Curious to know which one you would grab when..
Anonymous
April 30, 2008How in the heck do i get ahold of Guy Takayama? Been trying to track a number for ages. Really interested in a couple of designs i’ve seen of his. Haven’t checked recently but his website’s been down since Uncle Donald was a gremmie.
Anonymous
April 30, 2008I working on a decent quiver…even though I live in the N. Gulf Coast of Florida….I do the same as JP and just take a few with me and ride whichever one seems to fit the condtions of the day…sometimes I may wish I would have picked one over another but it keeps my surfing skills diverse and most importantly…fun!!!
Ian...
April 30, 2008Answer the bonzer hotline!
Anonymous
April 30, 2008F. 5’7″ Rich Pavel Speedialer quad with vanishing tapered stringer. Clark Foam. Lokbox fin system. 4 oz S glass.
^^^do you know who made the blank for this board? I rode a 6′ version last Fall and it was special indeed. saw a Biofoam blank at the trade show that was very similar.
I heard that Pavel calls those boards a “Flexdialer.”
any additional info on this type of board from any of you reading this would be appreciated.
Anonymous
May 1, 2008Just curious — a few years, and you still haven’t fixed the broken Bonzer — why not?
J.P.
May 1, 2008Shoots, I think I might have named the Flexdialer. I bought the blank from Ian Zamora in the Oceanside Harbor parking lot at the Fish Fry after Clark Foam closed down.
King Mac makes tapered stringer fish blanks and Ice 9 is going to have them soon.
I will post Guy’s contact info soon.
Fixing that broken board is on my To Do List, I swear.
Anonymous
May 1, 2008looks like someone has a little addiction. just so you are in control of it not it controling you – but (i’m not sure i am able to tell the difference for myself)
if you submit to a 28 day program can i will gladly quorentine and husband your quiver for ya?
justin
May 1, 2008Rich did not name the FLEXDIALER. Flexholio did
moon mom
May 1, 2008Sorry that I missed your call.
Between the landscape demolition,
the exterior painting compressor,
the XM radio full blast, the airbrush
compressor,the router and grinding
machines, I can’t hear the telephone
from the packing room.
Ian...
May 1, 2008I’m not mad, I’m just antsy to order a new bonzer.
Anonymous
May 1, 2008you definitely need some longboards in that there quiver 😉
surfast
May 2, 2008Nice set up. You are going to need bigger lock for your garage after posting this one.
Anonymous
May 5, 2008How about yor SUP.
Its the board of the future although you may not want to admit it for a few years.
Try it in the surf and you may change your mind.