Tim Stamps - Shaper of the Year

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Anybody else have this conversation multiple times?
Surfer walking up the beach says hey thats a nice board who shaped it?
Tim stamps.
who?
Tim stamps he is just down in hb shapes for courntney counlage and brett simpson.
I dont know who that is
they are pro surfers on the tour.
Yeah never heard of them or stamps before but nice board
:DI guess stamps is one of the best kept secrets
 

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Anybody else have this conversation multiple times?
Surfer walking up the beach says hey thats a nice board who shaped it?
Tim stamps.
who?
Tim stamps he is just down in hb shapes for courntney counlage and brett simpson.
I dont know who that is
they are pro surfers on the tour.
Yeah never heard of them or stamps before but nice board
:DI guess stamps is one of the best kept secrets
Thats pretty much all my boards: Mitsven, Mabile, Hanel, Martin, etc. and like it that way.
 
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Mitsven has put his hands on a few of my stamps and has spoken very highly of them. Started following him on Instagram since then. Mutual respect.
When Terry Martin was alive I brought a Mabile Twinzer with me to his Bay. Like your story he was super into it. Basically saying there is some secret sauce in the Bottom of that board. Good surf talk for sure!

To keep it Stamps related mine is supposed to be done next week!
 

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Blows my mind when shapers don't know other fairly high profile people. Like DH in EAST not knowing who Simon Jones was.
...some of my experience is plain old Ego for them to say they dont know. They know most others as the Shaper/Boardmaking Business is a small world.
 

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Yeah I mean if dh didn't know who Simon was that also meant he didn't know who torren was. Dude must consume zero surf media.
I honestly don't think DH knew who Simon was.

DH is a high performance surfboard shaper with a narrow foccus. Probably only pays attention to hp shapes and shapers.

Simon is in an entirely different shaping world.