Guns.

Post by **crabmeat thompson** » Fri Jun 26, 2015 9:42 am

steve shearer wrote:Went and spoke to Webby (Wayne Webster) about a 7'6" Desert Storm yesterday.

Stopped into Gunter Rohns and saw the most delectable channel bottom he'd shaped for Nicky Wood.

Apparently Nick only surfs at night now.

i was at a certain shop last week and if you have $1300, i got you your board.

handshaped, gloss finished red, brand spanking new gerry lopez 7'6" gun. just the rails on this thing is a vision of beauty and complexity you won't find on any other board in the world. for reals.

Post by **steve shearer** » Fri Jun 26, 2015 9:47 am

sounds delectable but Webby is doing me a working mans price. Thank god.

Post by **crabmeat thompson** » Fri Jun 26, 2015 9:53 am

yeah, and the other thing with gerry's board ... i wouldn't know whether to ride it or keep it somewhere safe.

Post by **steve shearer** » Fri Jun 26, 2015 9:57 am

Webby showed me a shaped blank of a Desert Storm....slightly forward weighted outline screamed paddle power and tube riding. He's on fire with Guns at the moment.

Post by **Beanpole** » Fri Jun 26, 2015 10:32 pm

tootr wrote:There's a Buzzy Trent shaped 10 foot something elephant gun on feebay.

Bidding now at $3000

Then again prolly as collectable as a board can get

MP for $4,500 so far on evilbay.

Post by **el rancho** » Sun Jun 28, 2015 1:15 pm

Braithy wrote:
steve shearer wrote:Went and spoke to Webby (Wayne Webster) about a 7'6" Desert Storm yesterday.

Stopped into Gunter Rohns and saw the most delectable channel bottom he'd shaped for Nicky Wood.

Apparently Nick only surfs at night now.

i was at a certain shop last week and if you have $1300, i got you your board.

handshaped, gloss finished red, brand spanking new gerry lopez 7'6" gun. just the rails on this thing is a vision of beauty and complexity you won't find on any other board in the world. for reals.

Yeah I saw that board today. Add 600 clams for full retail.
Wasn't shaped by Lopez.

Post by **crabmeat thompson** » Sun Jun 28, 2015 1:48 pm

who shaped it then?

Post by **el rancho** » Sun Jun 28, 2015 2:51 pm

same people who do takayamas. in Byron maybe? can't remember.

Post by **crabmeat thompson** » Sun Jun 28, 2015 2:58 pm

interesting.

when you see gerry lopez handshapes on the decal, you kinda expect it to be a gerry lopez handshape.

still, an unreal board.

Post by **steve shearer** » Sun Jun 28, 2015 9:55 pm

probably Paul Hutchinson, Australias best ghost shaper. He's got the Lopez licence in Aus.

I've ogled the Lopez guns at the Bear/Takyama shop in Byron many times.

Post by **el rancho** » Sun Jun 28, 2015 10:02 pm

yep that'd be him.
there's a 7'8 Mark Richards 'bustin' down the door' lightning bolt single next to the Lopez as well, bit more foiled in the nose with little flyers/flutes in the tail

Post by **crabmeat thompson** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 8:17 am

i got a funny takyama story.

my last trip to hawaii, i was meant to bring back a tokoro for a friend I worked with who knew him. Since he was getting one, i figured if i get any kind of 2-for-1 deal, i'll buy one for meself too.

I went around and saw wade to get the boards ... only wade had never heard of the guy. so i'm describing what he looks like and wade's kinda nodding his head, looking confused. he showed me a few boards off the rack and i picked two of them. b'cos my mate was big, i figured he'd need the sunny garcia model.

grab the two boards and come home. i drove to the mate's house to deliver his board, feeling a little like father christmas. i get there and he'd just deadpanning me asking if this was a joke.

i got tokoro confused with takyama. yeah, i'm that guy. haha

Post by **swvic** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 9:10 am

Did he keep/like the Tokoro

Post by **crabmeat thompson** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 1:47 pm

swvic wrote:Did he keep/like the Tokoro

nah ... he was/ is a mal rider

i thought it was weird he was asking for a short board, but just put it down to the fact he knew wade. haha

to stop him from whinging i had to buy the board off him.

Post by **steve shearer** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 1:55 pm

I'd love a Tokoro, or an Arakawa channel bottom same as the one AI rode at Cloudbreak.

Mark Plater at Maddog can shape those MR replica single fins. How sweet are those fluted flyers on them?

Post by **crabmeat thompson** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 2:15 pm

steve shearer wrote:I'd love a Tokoro, or an Arakawa channel bottom same as the one AI rode at Cloudbreak.

Mark Plater at Maddog can shape those MR replica single fins. How sweet are those fluted flyers on them?

i was spewing ... i'd just done a whole profile piece with eric at his home on the hill at waimea, then we drove over to haleiwa took some photos of him shaping. he had so many nice boards, and i wanted to come back home with arakawa. but because i was seeing wade later on and i knew i'd be scoring a deal, i saved my money for the tokoro. if i had my shit in order, i woulda known it was a takyama, not a tokoro and I coulda bought the arakawa. (say that 5 times fast, shearer)

it was a great board. snapped it across the tailpad at 4ft burleigh after about 3 months, though... was spewing

Post by **Nick Carroll** » Thu Jul 02, 2015 6:30 pm

guns, please

12' x 19" x 6"

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Post by **Nick Carroll** » Thu Jul 02, 2015 6:39 pm

and I would just like to say hurray for the photo function on this extraordinarily modern and up to date site.

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