your list is fairly incomplete and its usually not necessary to ask where the board came from, thats usually obvious.
Most of my boards in recent years have been made in Thailand - Donald Takayama Egg - absolutely magic. Doc Lausch HVP - magic, Merrick Flyer II - magic - these are Tuflite.
Currently spending most of my time on the Byrne Phil Macca 6' 1" in TL2 - this really is a fabulous board will do all sorts of waves with its neutral tail rocker (2 1/2"), I just spent 11 glorious days of surfing this over the Christmas holidays.
From your list is my Bushman Pancho Sullivan Model 6' 3" - this board really has lifted my surfing up a level and its become my choice when the waves are bowly due to its higher tail rocker (2 7/8"). This board also in TL2 (Tuflite Two from Surftech).
Also from your list and owned by my mate is the McCoy Nugget in Tuflite - I've borroweed this and it is a brilliant package although not my type of regular ride. He has recently aquired the Webber Pulse quad (SLX made by GSI in Thailand) and raves about it and it certainly has lifted his surfing.
I know "technically" a pop out is a machine made board...but many believe factory made boards hand made by non surfers who have never ridden a surfboard or even seen the ocean are pop outs too.
it is kind of amazing shapers are such pacifist even when big business is taking over- or at least hurting surfer-shapers with crappy Asian made surfboards.After over a decade the best we have is a list.
I know "technically" a pop out is a machine made board...but many believe factory made boards hand made by non surfers who have never ridden a surfboard or even seen the ocean are pop outs too....
no, not quite technically correct. Pop-outs are moulded boards, not just the core, the whole finished laminate is moulded. I'm not sure if there are many made that way now. Certainly back then the glass was layed up by hand in the mould. The labour saving was no sanding (except on the seam) was required and the blank didn't need to be shaped either.
When I was growing up there were some pop-outs produced in the UK - the local sports shop had a board where the seam along the side wasn't hidden. However I think the first pop-outs were made in the US?
The first board I ever owned was a pop-out made in school. We poured the foam in-situ.
Just another example of a self-appointed expert spewing bad info.
Like when you watch youtube and some random shop guy explains the different construction methods.
I think some shop assistants do need to lift their game. I went into Quiksilver in Torqay who are a surftech dealer and where I got my Flyer II tuflite from and the shop assistant told me they don't stock them any more and tried to sell me a Firewire saying they were "much better technology". I then asked if he could order a surftech and was told "yes but it would be really expensive". He seemed so reluctant to sell me one that I walked out. Firewires are good boards but I didn't want one, he should have recognised that.
I then went to my local surfshop in Melbourne who also list themselves as a surftech dealer. There were two shop assistants and one of them said that when you tap them they "sound really weak". Tapping a sandwich board to determine its strength is news to me!
The female assistant in the same shop was much better. No technical bullshit, straight away made a phone call to surftech to see if they had the model I wanted in stock, got me a good price and got it ordered.
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your list is fairly incomplete and its usually not necessary to ask where the board came from, thats usually obvious.
Most of my boards in recent years have been made in Thailand - Donald Takayama Egg - absolutely magic. Doc Lausch HVP - magic, Merrick Flyer II - magic - these are Tuflite.
Currently spending most of my time on the Byrne Phil Macca 6' 1" in TL2 - this really is a fabulous board will do all sorts of waves with its neutral tail rocker (2 1/2"), I just spent 11 glorious days of surfing this over the Christmas holidays.
From your list is my Bushman Pancho Sullivan Model 6' 3" - this board really has lifted my surfing up a level and its become my choice when the waves are bowly due to its higher tail rocker (2 7/8"). This board also in TL2 (Tuflite Two from Surftech).
Also from your list and owned by my mate is the McCoy Nugget in Tuflite - I've borroweed this and it is a brilliant package although not my type of regular ride. He has recently aquired the Webber Pulse quad (SLX made by GSI in Thailand) and raves about it and it certainly has lifted his surfing.
I was so happy with my TL2 Pancho Sullivan that I wrote to Jeff Bushman to tell him ...
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popey.....
I don't know if you wrote the text in that image, or if you just found it somewhere and felt compelled to post it here.
I can tell you that whoever wrote it does NOT know what a popout is.
Just another example of a self-appointed expert spewing bad info.
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Like when you watch youtube and some random shop guy explains the different construction methods.
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I know "technically" a pop out is a machine made board...but many believe factory made boards hand made by non surfers who have never ridden a surfboard or even seen the ocean are pop outs too.
it is kind of amazing shapers are such pacifist even when big business is taking over- or at least hurting surfer-shapers with crappy Asian made surfboards.After over a decade the best we have is a list.
Those people are wrong. They are the same folks who don't know what a fish is, most likely.
Can't wait for Bill T, Balsa Bill, or JimTheGenius to chime in on this one....
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no, not quite technically correct. Pop-outs are moulded boards, not just the core, the whole finished laminate is moulded. I'm not sure if there are many made that way now. Certainly back then the glass was layed up by hand in the mould. The labour saving was no sanding (except on the seam) was required and the blank didn't need to be shaped either.
When I was growing up there were some pop-outs produced in the UK - the local sports shop had a board where the seam along the side wasn't hidden. However I think the first pop-outs were made in the US?
The first board I ever owned was a pop-out made in school. We poured the foam in-situ.
I think some shop assistants do need to lift their game. I went into Quiksilver in Torqay who are a surftech dealer and where I got my Flyer II tuflite from and the shop assistant told me they don't stock them any more and tried to sell me a Firewire saying they were "much better technology". I then asked if he could order a surftech and was told "yes but it would be really expensive". He seemed so reluctant to sell me one that I walked out. Firewires are good boards but I didn't want one, he should have recognised that.
I then went to my local surfshop in Melbourne who also list themselves as a surftech dealer. There were two shop assistants and one of them said that when you tap them they "sound really weak". Tapping a sandwich board to determine its strength is news to me!
The female assistant in the same shop was much better. No technical bullshit, straight away made a phone call to surftech to see if they had the model I wanted in stock, got me a good price and got it ordered.
There is many more people who could be on that
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