Swingin Like the Naughties (and Board Report)

[Cpt.Caveman]

Heya guys, I thought it would be nice to share some custom stoke with you fellas!

Someone-a-rather was worried about posting too many photos of his boards on the forums and told me to wait if I want to put them up....So.....I did....but now the excitement is a little too hard to contain. Here are some pics of the strange beast in creation, a two face wonder of speed and hard carving lines, floats over flat spots and then does tight hooks in curvey lines...

This board became a necessity after putting on a few kilos, making my 6'0" Quadfather a bit harder to surf in junk and small surf. It still goes great as soon as the waves have a bit of push, but I really wanted a performance orientated semi-fish quad that can do the smaller weaker days, but also have the ability to take on decent surf if its better than expected.

So excited! Here she is....

[mustkillmulloway]

hehe......it's a great feeling isn't it

u know it's coming.....u now know what it looks like

and if your anything like me your just hanging ride it

i love technogy....the days of ordering a custom and than just sitting back and biting fingernails for a month ( or four MR dahlberg but they where worth waiting for ) are over

nice looking board capt what are u doing glass wise

p.s capt and me getting new boards...nah nah

[diggerdickson]

stoked for you mate, cant wait to read the reviews you put up on it.

[pridmore]

mate, that board wont work, it is weird looking, those flyers are gunna make that board go crappy, what was the shaper thinkin ??? and tell him to clean up his shaping bay would ya.....


tis that the shnoz of 'The Mongrel' up on the racks in one of the pics ???

[mical]

tis that the shnoz of 'The Mongrel' up on the racks in one of the pics ???

Nah Nah we know what the nose looks like

Re: Swinger .. Shit looking board, never work, too much experimentation going on nowdays, what happened to the good 'ol 6'2" rockered to all fcuk twigs eh?

It's got fcuking wings








Looks great

[Cpt.Caveman]

Yeeeew!

I had a go of another Swinger very similar by some dude up in Yamba, can't remember his name.... He kept saying he wanted more of everything...more speed, more paddle power....greedy man.

After him watching me surf, talking about the one I tried, and talking about the options for this one, we nailed it down to:

5'11" x 20 1/2" x 2 5/8", 18 1/2" after the stingers, subtle single to deep double, slight nose flip to drivey rocker, slightly different distribution of foam to the other Swinger to make sure its not too corky but still paddles well, McKee quad of course, slightly more rounded round-tail. I think her name is the (swing loooooww.....) Sweet Chariot.

Sooooo excited. I know its going to go even better for me than the other one I tried, which means eye watering speeeeeeeed!

Fong, I'm leaving the glassing up to Mark to decide. Thats his business, not mine. Something standard I'm guessing

Couple of more pics...(oops):

[diggerdickson]

I like the idea of the swinger, I dont use my qf in small fat junky surf cause thats not what I wanted it built for, so I use my semi fish thruster. But..................... if you could get a quad with mkee set up to go in that stuff, and that would like that sort of surf..... then stuff my semi fish. Now, if i have plenty of patience and start working on tracy, try one out if possible in something over 2 inches high, then Ive got half a chance. Stoked for ya mate and jealous.

[mustkillmulloway]

I like the idea of the swinger, .

yeah i do too...but after that rockfella guy got cut with a chainsaw

i'll just stick with one on one sex

wat u doing fin wise capt ....curved or normal

[Cpt.Caveman]

Pretty sure I'll do black KFin/G1000, nice pivot for what I like.

[pridmore]

that may work for you but I found it too pivotty and unstable, with the quad, the pulled in curvey tailshape as well as the deep double thru fin area, I think it was too much...but thats just for me...I like em drivey so I can push hard, but it'll be interesting to hear ya thoughts once you've had it a while....also the b-flies didnt suit the board, already drivey enough, perhaps a smaller set but the b-flies work best on wider tailed boards...for me so far, from what testing I have done anyway....

[Cpt.Caveman]

I heard around the grape-vine that it'll hopefully be ready this weekend! YEEEW! Expect some more photos soon

[Cpt.Caveman]

Another masterpiece by Cain the 12 year old going on 30, young artist...so happy with how this board looks.

Another week or so until I'll be able to surf it so that it can cure well. Expect some ride reports soon!!!

[Quangers]

She looks sweet.

[pridmore]

interesting to see Quangers me ol' mate still sniffing around the Swingers ( so to speak...) he was he one who showed the mostinterest when I first designed one.....Cain is actually 11 but going on 36 ha ha....

[diggerdickson]

thats nice artwork indeed

[mical]

He's definitely got a flair Mark.

[Cpt.Caveman]

Have the board in my hands now. The statement "clever distribution of volume" keeps popping into mind as I try to get my head around how all the elements work together....

[ric_vidal]

MP, how does the Swinger vary from just a normal blended planshape? I.e. averaging the difference in the flyer and just making a smooth outline or have you found the flyer creates something else?