The friend I was referring to Earlier had several Custom made FireWires they also had rail stringers
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When you're supposed to be on a Firewire but the paint washes off your board...
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wonder what bert and josh would think of what all this has become?
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And Wildy (Greg Wilde) whose personal tandem fin build you showed. They were the 3 australians recruited by Firewire for their tech and industry knowledge. Josh is no longer in the surfboard industry and now in the teaching profession. Every now and then he will do some amazing airbrush artwork for a local pu/pe manufacturer.
To answer previous speculation Josh did build boards for Taj Burrow in the early firewire tech - perimeter stringer, sandwich skinned, in the Thailand factory.
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And Bert is still doing his balsa builds under his Sunova brand out of his factory by the sea in Khao Lak, Thailand. Surfboards made by Thai surfers by the Thai sea. Interesting point of difference from the made for Joe Average Firewires with the Sunova and Josh Dowling boards is the refinement in the shapes. Their boards always came down on the thin side with very little bulk in the rails as you can see in the pics.
yup, Bert's "Magic Carpet" shown (which I always want tried to build) was less than 2 inches thick.
Allot of "wild" stories about the formation of that company and what happened after the IP was shared (I warned bert about the investor community). One of those guys should do a book. Speed Needle's airbrushes were always the best. I believe wildy move to colorado after his firewire tenure.
Miss those guys and those early compsand years.
My feeble attempt at a Magic Carpet 1.75" thick with foam fins skinned with japanese washi paper.
impossible to paddle in but an amazing feeling (flex) once you did. bert once said if you keep it thin enough the concave deck would transform and change the bottom contour because of the flex and perimeter stinger.
fun experimental days gone past
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Daniel's brother from a thailand motherWell sh!t! This man just doesn't care.
I wonder if he's related to Biolos?
I'm willing to bet there's an interesting story here.
If anyone knows about consumer fraud it would be Rich Pavel.
Well sh!t! This man just doesn't care.
I wonder if he's related to Biolos?
At least he also makes unique ones like this Flare