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Swaylocks ........ Done?
- Thread starter GromsDad
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They are jam boards with all the other grumpy old guys.
There was no other site dedicated purely to building surfboards. There were a lot of newbies (nerds?) making their first boards. There were a lot of guys like me, garage shapers who've been making boards at an amatuer level all their lives. And then there were a few professionals chiming in on a regular basis with solid technical advice- Bert Burger, Greg Loehr, Josh Dowling, Plus One (George Gall) come to mind.
There was talk about what to do with the site. I hope it doesn't shut down. There was so much gold archived there.
Last heard owner of site said all in or shut down ie... update site modern features $$$ or shut down and stop paying for ole site
BB’s like this are a tricky beast. I know of one that was a collection of writers, often sharing short stories that are otherwise unpublished.
The fear was that their works would be republished for profit. Enough of the big shots formed a consortium and bought the thing and kept status quo but even then, these things need to be maintained and the temptation is to just bury the thing.
The fear was that their works would be republished for profit. Enough of the big shots formed a consortium and bought the thing and kept status quo but even then, these things need to be maintained and the temptation is to just bury the thing.
Wow, I'm just starting to get into shaping and ding repair (Already plotting my future shaping bay). I learned so much from there to get started. I'd hate to see it all disappear now.
Oh man, who was that dude on the east side of Kauai who made custom fins? Interesting cat. Rich something? I used to spend a lot of time on that site...
There were so many good build threads on Swaylocks "back in the day"! Lot's people willing to share solid info and help "fix" newbie mistakes while shaping/glassing boards.
It’s a gold mine as an archive for board building and repair. As a discussion forum, that ship has sailed
Imagine if someone harvested the whole thing and started producing surfboard building guides from the content.
Agree the format of discussion is not worth owning but the IP of the works… maybe.
Agree the format of discussion is not worth owning but the IP of the works… maybe.
His Sways name was "Kokua" which means helpful if I'm not mistaken. I think he passed away from cancer.
Swaylocks would have exchanged an enormous amount of information by now. However, doing that would not be so easy. The forum is founded by Mike Paler a web software engineer who constructed it as his hobby project and it went through a big version 2 changeover during which pictures were lost and links to other parts of the forum lost. Its not the easiest place to navigate or search.
It would be harder than trying to put together a comprehensive wetsuit purchase guide from the erBB unbiased wetty thread. Building a board is a bit like building a cake - many recipes and techniques, so there the fundamental problem of which one to choose and any credible author would have to try the different techniques to determine which one is best to present.
Oh yes! Requests for help for all sorts of stuff ups - resin setting before rails wrapped. Air bubbles. Epoxy not set. Pinholes in the filler coat. Sprayed the blank a dark colour and got white blotches after glassing, just to name a few.
Kokua was so key to the forum that a big chunk of Sways died with him when he passed away. I never felt like it was the same after that. Like he was the glue. Some great characters over there for sure......guys like Trailkill, Ambrose, Shark Country, and Uncle Grumpy.