I had a similar outcome on my fuse. I forget, do you also have a flare? How would you compare your low-end of your fuse vs flare?
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Tim Stamps - Shaper of the Year
- Thread starter griffinsurfboard
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Ah ok that makes sense. I'm still confused that a flare/gx would take the place of a blindspot since it would sit above both of those models but whatever. He knows what he's doing. Stocked to see what he comes up with for ya 
Yes, I have a 5'8 Flare in Varial that's my DD and an all time fave. Despite their both being around the same liters (29ish), the Flare has much better low end IMO. The rails are chonkier on the Flare which is Varial/poly. The Fuse is Varial/carbon/epoxy.
Not really sure, from an email exchange with Tim this am:
"...we can 'tune up' the Flare or shift to a different model depending on what you are after.
i'd done a bunch of the flare/gX mashup blends along the way as well. done a few for a good friend and he really like em....
should put out a model, but then it kinda blends the line....
made myself one last year in hopes of 'releasing' it out on the 'menu', but it flew outta my truck and got smashed up...
working on website the last bit, so maybe it will happen. i know lots of people kinda want the best of both worlds..."
Ok now I'm really jacked up. I had two fuse models and both groveled siginificantly better than my flare, and it's a combo of the flare and quantum quad so I would expect it too. My flare is foiled more than both of my fuse's were.
Ha. To be fair my flare isn't really a stoke flare and my fuse's were both sort of in between a stoke flare and a fuse
Rails don't matter to me at all
Mine are the opposite. I think if my Fuse had the same foam distribution in the rails it may have graveled better than my Flare.
Me trying to keep all these mash ups and models straight
Just wait til I finally make the QS. There's gonna be a washed up frumpy dad bod quiver with crazy models.
And the most beautiful rails you've ever seen
And the most beautiful rails you've ever seen
Banana Fish and Flare overlap only to the extent that 90% of So Cal boards overlap because they need to work in shoulder high mush.
But they have very different outlines and they ride differently. BF definitely feels very much like a fish. I ride mine as a quad with its wide tail. Flare feels like a hpsb with some added low end range. I think any overlap will also depend on the dims and if they’re too similar.
For the BF, I would ask if you have a fish that you like and if you wanted a little more rocker while retaining the characteristics that make it a fish. I think it’s a great board and I use mine as a shortboard step down.
flare up is like that sturdy but good lookin gal at work that you know is just down to fook
Looks good but personally I prefer a little rounder tail if you know what I mean.
Im 100% ordering a banana fish but just trying to decide what else to get with it.
Many signs are pointing to the fact that venereal may be done. If it’s true, I’m bummed, but my contacts in the sarf industry’s spidey senses are definitely tingling.