They look really fun, but it's a big investment for a kind of off-the-wall design.
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Album Surfboards
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I'd say it felt really straight compared to how it looks. Paddling with the asym nose was always weird to me though.
Fack- a posse of Giant menstruating sperm.my next custom I think I will not be saying, give the board some color and just do what you want...but I do hope this board is going to a chick!
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Not something you see every day.
Yes. Still tinkering with fins a little. Board works. Mine is shorter/wider than standard dims on the website.
The board feels normal frontside and backside. Fun board.
Like @MathDebater said the asym nose is a little weird when paddling.
Its my DD (one of). Current one is my 4th iteration (6-2 x 20.25). Frist was 6-0 x 19.75 in XTR. Used it as a step up-ish. Served me well during NJ tropical season. Second one was the one Mathdebater had. Low end DD, like he said. 3rd was during my upsized transition (6-2 x 20) in Varial, but still wanted more foam. 4th, after dialing it in so much, went with Varial carbon. 6-2 x 20.25 x 2 9/16. I use the T1 fin with NVS Dan Mann fins. This one will be with me for a while. The guy who has my first one still texts me occasionally about how much he LOVES it.
I'm thinking of getting one but with a standard pointy nose. Asym nose looks wonky.
I've seen them with a bullet nose as well.
yeah I don't think i could handle the wonky nose version but a bullet nose one would be chill
My 3-fin Disorder is 5' 6"x19.6"x2.56" (31L). I oversized mine, so it is a little chunky but works well for its size. It has good flow, parallel outline with wideish tail that provides nice inherent speed. I love the way it pivots (at least frontside) and its easy to go rail to rail. It has a decent concave, more than the Twinsman and less than Bullet. It has a flat tail. The flow and pivot are a standout, when it goes it feels effortless. It paddles great. However, I find the blunt wide nose with its rocker reduces the wave catching slightly. You need that extra paddle stroke, where other boards seem to grab earlier. It is not horrible by any means. It is more that the 5' 7" asymmetric, quad GOAT with a normal nose catches waves very well.
The 5' 7" GOAT is easy board to surf with more performance and has a pretty good range. In these dimensions, the Disorder is also easy, but I am a bit more selective in the conditions I will surf it, and not the biggest waves.
With the chopped nose, and tail, and parallel rails, it supports wide outline, hence you can go smaller than think. Knowing this now, I placed a custom order for a Disorder that has more appropriate dimensions @ 5'6 x 18.5" x 2.38" around 27.5 L. This one will be more in line with a performance shortboard.
The 5' 7" GOAT is easy board to surf with more performance and has a pretty good range. In these dimensions, the Disorder is also easy, but I am a bit more selective in the conditions I will surf it, and not the biggest waves.
With the chopped nose, and tail, and parallel rails, it supports wide outline, hence you can go smaller than think. Knowing this now, I placed a custom order for a Disorder that has more appropriate dimensions @ 5'6 x 18.5" x 2.38" around 27.5 L. This one will be more in line with a performance shortboard.
If I ordered a custom disorder I’d def do a normal nose. It really messed with my head in turn and go situations.
NVS Album quads are like the NVS uprights - they simply work. I have only recently been tinkering with quads in Insanity, Goat, and Mini Ghost, tried a few different fin combinations (various future fins) and the NVS quads are the best. There are few combinations in the 6' 2" Stretched Insanity that I like better owing to the board length. With the Mini Ghost, I initially preferred it as a quad and the NVSs felt best, but more and more liking it as a thruster.Any ride reports on the album x TA quad fin set?
I like the look of the template and could see them in my quad fish.
Album x True Ames Quad
Designed for Drive & Speed Powerful turns & projection Well suited for all conditions (front fins) height- 4.53” / 115 mm base- 4.59” / 117 mm area- 15.18 / 98.0 cm (back fins) height- 3.56” / 90 mm base- 3.96” / 101 mm area- 10.74” / 69.3 cmalbumsurf.com
Also, they seem like a total bargain compared to the bronze sculpture
nice, I was wondering how the Album quads would go in the MG. Just switched the Hayden quads out and put them in mine. Ran the TA Album twins without a trailer in the RNF96 this morning.
@oeste858 i believe the NVS are slightly larger than the TA
Considering ordering an Album. The Shitsman. Anyone ridden one?
That's the go-to performance boar for Asher & Josh!
Trace these on a sheet of graph paper , give values for area change and movement of that area in relation to pressure - you will not like what you see . The real world of design does exist , possibly not in surfboard fins
You assigning homework now??
LOL
please offer us your quad fins in futures and we don’t have to trial and error this crap. Pretty please.
Don’t do it! That crooked nose is important (for parking lot lookyloos to ask to question about)…
