I read a lot (and watched everything I could get) about CJ Nelson Longboard Design. I build a longboard out of wood in the style of the Model “The Haven”, where I assumed a bottom contour as front concave, flat, vee in the tail with concaves. Building in wood is sometimes a compromise, so the objective was not to copy a “The Haven”, but getting a board with similar performance.
As far as I can judge, my surfing capabilities are limited, the board works more than pretty well (I just returend from a 14 days Portugal Surf Vacation, where I rode it solely.
Since this board works so well for me, I’m getting hungry building something differently. According to the information received, a board featuring the “Parallax” and/or the “NeoClassic” would be a nice addition to my quiver.
So lets talk Parallax first (which I would prefer): it seems to be a “hullish” board; rounded belly at the front, the tail rather flat with a hard edge, but how is the middle? still slightly hull (like the outlier), or already flat. Lots of volume. should give a decent glider, fast, loose, but still a turning machine, less a nose rider. Like the outlier, no concave, only convex, but “normalized” not a real hull?
Anybody there with more details, or better photographs of the bottom, best with a ruler to recognize the basic concept?
And what about the NeoClassic, you can find just blurb about the board, I found some info which I would interpret as concave front, flat tail, but there is suppossed to be some convex???
The problem is always, what is marketing and what is real, finally there are all boards…
