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Lowest-bullshit way to buy good used boards for N Shore?
- Thread starter Chee-to
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Oahu prob the easiest place in the world to find used sticks. Especially on the NS after the tour came thru. Gave all my boards to my buddies back east and loaded up when I moved out there. I'm 6'3 and never had an issue finding boards for great prices.
Used to blow all my E-3 pay out there haha.
Used to blow all my E-3 pay out there haha.
I ordered an Arakawa recently, top notch stuff, top notch service from a world class shaper and I dealt with him directly ( I don’t order boards from guys that don’t deal directly with the customer)
it's imperative to get the dimensions within 1/16 of a ball hair for maximum shreddage. you're on 23.4789 liters of volume these days if I'm remembering correctly?
There are so many boards on this island. Check offerup, facebook marketplace before coming out.
Besides Usedsurfboardshawaii.com, I've also found some gems at this shop:
Looks like they have a bunch of Kaimana Henry's shortboards (volcom stickers) he's a bigger dude 6'0 200 poundsish.
Besides Usedsurfboardshawaii.com, I've also found some gems at this shop:
Looks like they have a bunch of Kaimana Henry's shortboards (volcom stickers) he's a bigger dude 6'0 200 poundsish.
Hapasurfskate is good, Easy to get to and plenty of parking. I bought my DJ twin there. Cool owner and they sell FU wax.
Someone mentioned him above, but Carl Schaper has a shop in Waialua Mill. He does all Losts boards and is very talented, and underrated. I think his customs and stock are around $550? Maybe less. He's also a bigger guy, probably 6'2 x 200, so he has bigger boards in stock. Last time I went there he had maybe 60+ boards in stock, including some nice feeling step ups - Im 6'1 195.
Surfboars, especially not soft top longboars are hard to come by. HIC/Surfboard Factory scanned Steve Morgan’s most popular mini-tanks, fishes and hp longboars and had a bunch made in Asian. The HIC boars without the shapers logo, made in Hawaii lam or shapers signature are the Asian made boars. The authentic Morgan’s are all hand shaped, no cnc precuts. Uncle Steven told me the factory where the pop-outs are built but I forgot. Probably Cobra. I was giving him crap for the pop outs and he said the glassers can’t make local boars fast enough.
To be honest the boars look good, but one look at the price and all the missing shaper logos clued me in that they were made overseas. New 9’0 lb with fin goes for $695. They even ran holiday sales where you get a 10% credit of the boar price toward accessories like deck pads, leashes, bags etc.
HIC is good people, and good deals on boards, You could/should order a Tokoro (kerry) from them, great glassing in my experience when they were getting boars done by eric. Not 100% sure if they are using the same glass shop anymore.
the wife er i mean boss and I used to order lots of boards from them(erics) but the HIC/Eric collab ended awhile back
the wife er i mean boss and I used to order lots of boards from them(erics) but the HIC/Eric collab ended awhile back
