So I got a hold of Stu Kenson and asked can you make me a board for my birthday (in a couple months). He asked what do you want? I said I don't know but I'm not paddling very well but my surfing is still pretty good. He said ok give me some time and it will be ready soon. I have no idea what he is going to make me. Many years ago I tried this with Stu and ordered two boards no specs from him while I lived near some soft reef waves but was mainly driving to surf beach breaks every day, and was pretty much riding just thrusters. He made me a 5'6 keel fin fish with glass on fins that he cut and foiled, and a 5'8 double wing swallow tail twinzer with futures. These two boards were so different than anything I was riding at the time, it took me a while to figure out the keel fish (I vividly remember my first wave ever on that board, hopping up with my back foot between the tails of the swallow, my foot slid off the back of the board and doing the splits and then having to swim in) but man I ended up loving that board and it went so well on the reefs around here, and the twinzer is still a go to for me, love the instant speed from that board (not the same one but the same shape redone over the years). I will post pics when it is done and give a ride report. I just hope he doesn't paint it yum yum yellow.
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Ordered a board for my birthday - SK Dealers choice!
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Except the post about his fat friend in the jacuzzi wtf.His IG makes me
Short boards up to 6’8”$695.00, step ups 6’9” to 7’2”$725.00, mid length 2+1’s 6’10” to 7’6” $775.00 , performance longboards $950.00 . Prices are clear sanded acrylic . Tints , opaque cut laps $75.00 per side , gloss polish add $100.00.
Yeah I was curious as he doesn't list prices. Same price as off the rack boards at a local surf shop.
a lot of people don't realize you can get an amazing custom from absolute gurus for the same or less than most boards off the rack
so hoping you end up with a narrow tail mid 90s funboard thruster at 2.25 thick
Or get an amazing custom from an unknown journeyman ghost shaper/glasser, who's seen probably 20,000 boards, for even cheaper.
Sorry, derailing from Stu. Stu makes awesome boards.
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Btw I don’t recommend this unless (shape me anything you want) you have a history with a shaper who knows how you surf etc. I’ve known Stu since the 1900s lol. . Racer makes a good point. I have a friend who has shaped 1000s of boards for various labels and will make me boards at cost and those are great too. Actually Stu has shaped 10000s for everybody from Canyon to Tudor to JS. So he has that experience too but a different price point.
Hope you get a mid 90s potato chip with tons of rocker. Haha
I’ve been down the well know and journey man shaper route. Quiver split between both now. The benefit of well know is resale value. Your net cost is usually less even though your up front cost higher. I sold a Cambell brothers last week that cost me $80. Bought for 730 and sold for 650.
sortaofa nobrainer. long as you have a bit of capital it easy to demo boutique boards for a year at less than a dollar/session.
assuming you dont trash the fuk out of them of course
2 weeks or so til my birthday, will Stu get the board done before my birthday? Still not sure what he is shaping me but he claims its at the glassers. It always the glass shop! can't wait... its weird being this old and excited for your birthday. yewww