Standup Spoon

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joeyjojo
joeyjojo
67 posts
67 posts
16 Apr 2012 7:09pm
http://www.mctavish.com.au/_blog/McTavish/post/Flexi-time/
Ted the Kiwi
Ted the Kiwi
NSW
14256 posts
NSW, 14256 posts
16 Apr 2012 9:10pm
Maybe this is the board for you Mac?
Simondo
Simondo
VIC
8025 posts
VIC, 8025 posts
16 Apr 2012 9:14pm
Ted the Kiwi said...

Maybe this is the board for you Mac?



DavidJohn
DavidJohn
VIC
17570 posts
VIC, 17570 posts
16 Apr 2012 9:59pm
Interesting concept.. I like it.. I've always liked the Tinker tail idea.. More info please..

DJ
Sparx
Sparx
VIC
734 posts
VIC, 734 posts
16 Apr 2012 11:06pm
Could see that being way,way fun to ride. Yeah McT is a genius but Greenough is a freakin guru, not to fond of stand ups though. What it most reminds me of are those little stand up, as opposed to kneel down, spoons that Ted Spencer rode. Check out Sea of Joy, Innermost Limits of Pure Fun and even Morning Of The Earth to watch Ted do his thang. He took the stand up spoon down to sub five foot where it all started to unravel, but on the mid fives and sixes he was putting surfboards in places they had seldom been before. Bit of a hero of mine as a kid and I lusted after the Ted Spencer, White Kite model. Ironicaly at about that time I ended up with the Wavetite!!!!
Cheers
Sparx
bjhjames
bjhjames
QLD
179 posts
QLD, 179 posts
16 Apr 2012 11:52pm

Jed from Bushrat has been doing flextails for a long time

www.bushrat.com/bushrat/Flextails.html

I have a carbon flextail fish and a round tail that are fun shortboards, very fast but turning is a bit compromised.

Thought about having a flextail sup shaped but cannot come up with a design benefit. They by design reduce volume for a given length and for a SUP it would seem a benefit to always try and do the opposite.
hilly
hilly
WA
8120 posts
WA, 8120 posts
16 Apr 2012 9:58pm
bjhjames said...


Thought about having a flextail sup shaped but cannot come up with a design benefit. They by design reduce volume for a given length and for a SUP it would seem a benefit to always try and do the opposite.



Have to agree
DavidJohn
DavidJohn
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17570 posts
VIC, 17570 posts
17 Apr 2012 9:49am
hilly said...

bjhjames said...


Thought about having a flextail sup shaped but cannot come up with a design benefit. They by design reduce volume for a given length and for a SUP it would seem a benefit to always try and do the opposite.



Have to agree


Yes but the design (of reduced volume) also does many other things.. It's always good seeing new things being tried.. even if they are old ideas..

Check out Bob's vid showing the shaping and making of a spoon.. I could watch and listen to Bob all day long.. This is the last of five vids.

DJ


doggie
doggie
WA
15849 posts
WA, 15849 posts
17 Apr 2012 9:30am
Looks like a cake
Deano72
Deano72
NSW
540 posts
NSW, 540 posts
17 Apr 2012 8:54pm
Mitchell Rae from Outer Island Surfboards is not to be forgotton.
He has been doing flex tails for as long as I can remember in short boards and more recently longboards.
The first one I remember seeing was early eighties on the Sunshine Coast.
I've got a 6'7" rounded pin carbon flex tail short board.
Great fun in powerful waves where you can really get the tail flexing.
Mitchell resolved the reduced volume issue......see photo.
Would work for a SUP.


How's the way the centre fin is glasse on....to allow more flex in the tail.
The guy is a shaping guru!!
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