Glen Jones... Toby

In no particular order,

SDR
Bob McT
Stuart Smith
TED
Nev Hyman

Steve Dell Rosso
billy tollhurst
nev
Ted the rhinoceros
Steve del rosso
goddard

Al Merrick
Wayne Lynch
Jim Banks
Spider Murphy
Matt Bilios

I had a few Jim banks customs when I was a grim,perfect for Cronulla point

Bob
Billy Tolhurst
Sam Egan
MR
Reno Abilira

Had a board off all of them at one stage.

bet you can't guess who
Tolhurst
Browny / Creative Army ... tied result
SDR
Munro

62mac said...

thePup said...
bet you can't guess who
Tolhurst
Browny / Creative Army ... tied result
SDR
Munro

What no Goddard what are you thinking pup,back to the pound you go

falls under the category of "bet you can't guess who" .... oh majestic stylemeister-ish one

Fantastic topic.

Murray Bourton - mentor, way too many boards to mention. Best 6'2 ever. Learnt more from him than from any one else ever. Great man, stood by me 100% through the hardest time in my life so far.

Simon Anderson - best 6'5 pin tail ever. Legend on so many levels. This board was handshaped with me in the bay start to finish. Must get an award for telling the same story so many times. "I seen a guy coming out of the surf at narrabeen with a little fin at the back, I said what does that do Frank etc etc"

Dan McDonald - innovative young guy, loves technology, can handshape, shapes everything from amazing retro fish and single fins to modern high performance epoxy carbon, bamboo laminates etc etc. Also one of the best glassers and sanders you can find.

Kym Thompson - trail blazer, probably had more influence on the entire industry than any other shaper in history. Big call but when you are the guy building the technology for the biggest brands in the biggest factory in the world you understand.
Was also a great surfer and started the careers of many great shapers in Torquay.

Maurice Cole - tortured genius. 15 years in front of most.

Laurie Hohensee the guru the teacher the master

Has everyone had or got boards of the guys they have listed or are we just going on boards you like the look of....not trying to stir **** just trying to get a read on if people like them beacsue they got a good board or they just like thier ideas etc

Tux said...
Has everyone had or got boards of the guys they have listed or are we just going on boards you like the look of....not trying to stir **** just trying to get a read on if people like them beacsue they got a good board or they just like thier ideas etc

Ridden or owned a couple of each of mine.....for me it's not just based on shape either. The care taken in glassing and finishing the boards as well as input for a custom and the consistency of good boards from these shapers...but that's just me.

Tux said...
Has everyone had or got boards of the guys they have listed or are we just going on boards you like the look of....not trying to stir **** just trying to get a read on if people like them beacsue they got a good board or they just like thier ideas etc

I have not owned a few of mine.....my neighbour has had a BB for the last 3 yrs so I feel like I almost own it - we surf together most of the time and I also fix it for him.....Josh Dowlings - I am yet to own one and can not see it happening for a while but whenever I see one in real life I make sure I go and chat to the owner whilst lusting after it and trying to hide the bloodflow. I want to own one but too many other items are in front of it on my shopping list.

Ted the Kiwi said...

CMC said...
Kym Thompson - trail blazer, probably had more influence on the entire industry than any other shaper in history. Big call but when you are the guy building the technology for the biggest brands in the biggest factory in the world you understand.
Was also a great surfer and started the careers of many great shapers in Torquay.

Tell me more please

I think that top 5 is too limiting - 10 would have been better

Kym started and owned Watercooled surfboards in Torquay and is featured in the Surf Museum. As Victorian Champion and big wave charger. He ran his business using for the time cutting edge technologies like Carbon and Kevlar etc years before most had heard of it.

He also shaped Sailboards and at the advent of Cobra Sailboards shaped many of their original designs for them in Thailand.

He then went on to relocate to Thailand with the vision of creating a quality outsourcing (Cobra had already revolutionised Windsurfing with their production process and technologies) option for surfboard businesses to produce large orders and target global markets like Japan etc.

I won't mention brands as some you may not even know are made in Thailand but will say that he is the technical guy that has put the production of the boards (Surf and SUP) to practice that have layed the foundations of market acceptance for nearly all technology brands to date.

No doubt this will be argued by some that a shaper that validated the production of surfboards in Asia has been influential to the market and that's fine but for those that know Kym know what he has contributed to the industry as a whole.

Kym in 1971 at Bells pre legropes.

CMC said...
Fantastic topic.

Murray Bourton - mentor, way too many boards to mention. Best 6'2 ever. Learnt more from him than from any one else ever. Great man, stood by me 100% through the hardest time in my life so far.


Maurice Cole - tortured genius. 15 years in front of most.

Totally agree but another West Aussie name from the past is Bruce Montgomery

Haven't spoken to him in years and years and I'm told he now does mostly long boards What a waist