Recent content by Meeks

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    Electric Tripping

    I read an article on the inter webs a few months ago. Thieves are targeting the more remote charging stations, you pull low on juice, hook up your car. They roll up and rob you, make a getaway in their internal combustion conveyance.
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    Chuck Andrus Interview

    Chuck is the man, Dying breed of shaper, still handshaping every board.
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    Dune

    If you are interested in Dune, there's a documentary that came out about 10 years ago called "Jodorowsky's Dune". Alejandro Jodorowsky is a cult film maker of the most insane kind. If you want to check out his finest works, watch "El Topo" and/or "The Holy Mountain". Anyway, he spent years and...
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    Traction Pad Affecting Magic of New Boar?

    As a shaper, it is funny when you get customer feedback that "The board just feels off, or boggy". Only to find out the traction pad is about 6" above leash plug. Placement matters.
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    ANYONE SEEN ANY GOOD MOVIES LATELY ?

    Mandy (Nic Cage goes to 11 in this one) Hereditary The Night Comes for Us (EXTREMELY violent) Midsommar
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    Varial foam Article/Ride Reports?

    I'll quit shaping before that happens
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    Surfboard blanks for the east coast

    I will ask him, But, like everyone else right now we're 100% buried. I know he's actually turning away work recently. When are you coming?
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    Surfboard blanks for the east coast

    Greg, do you find Milleniums to be a tad bit on the heavy side? I mean comparing their comparable weights to US?
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    Be sure to copy this

    Hopefully he put the correct 5/8" toe in at least
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    Some more board pron for Wassel

    No, there was a WRV retail store in Haliewa, but it closed several years ago. That's where the connection comes from.
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    Some more board pron for Wassel

    Wassel is 5'8", 200 lbs. And yes, it is a WRV logo. WRV is his board sponsor, they pay for his boards, but he can work with any shaper he wishes. I just have to display the WRV logo prominently on his boards.
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    Random Board thread # 1

    You glass them as you would a reg board. Varial doesn't recommend mixing cloth weights, in other words, if you're going 4 oz. go 4oz. all the way around. f you're going 6 oz, go 6oz all the way around. We typically go double 4 deck, single 4 bottom. If they want it a bit stronger, double 6...
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    Some more board pron for Wassel

    Primarily Pipe and Backdoor, but he rides them all over North Shore. Just try to make good all around boards for powerful waves.......
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    Some more board pron for Wassel

    From 6 1/8", 3 5/16" to 6 1/4" , 3 1/2"