have made 3 for Fong now ( plus he has ridden few others of mine ), so I am starting to know what he wants ) and needs ( sometimes these 2 can be different for all customers )...Fong gives me plenty of info, like making a meal, he throws me all these different ingredients and says make me something really tasty...but still throws me more ingredients thru the whole meal making process, it is challenging but I like challenges... to plan this meal we had several face to face discussions, plenty e-mails but the things that made my decisions easier was 2 things, namely when we had fun waves together at my local beachy, saw him ride few diff shapes and even try my b-fly fins round the wrong way ( great stuff..), I got to see how he turned his board, what turns he goes for, his style, just everything became clearer and then when we had another chat and he shaowed me his fav sled, I took all the dims so it was just a matter of combining everything I had on paper and the knowledge of how he surfs....the waves werent that disimilar to what the newy will be predominantly used in either, so made it even easier.....
re the name "The Mongrel" came from the fact that this sled has a little bit of several of my designs, used my Fat-Bat tail curve ( minus the bat obviously ) , has a tweaked MP3 nose, the tail of Fongs' old yellow 6'10" thruster, and dims mostly taken from his old yella fish but modified slighty , so with elements of 4 or 5 shapes, I just nicknamed it the "Mongrel", seemed perfect, I guess all boards are mongrels really..... Anyways, the process of creating this meal has been put out there for others interested to see it, and be involved in if they want ( especially good if you havent ever had a custom board created for you ) - ( have had guys of 50 yrs old and surfed all their lives and never had a custom- but when they do they arent like 50 yr olds, they are like little kids and just stoked on being involved in the whole thing...)
so it continues, the next part of the meal is the glassing, he wants it super light but srong enough to ride often and not to sink up too quickly, I reckon 2 x 4 deck, 1 x 4 bottom, like to go lighter but think that is happy medium, been getting good strength from this lay up, especially when cured well...
And this is not an add for my shapes, if you think it is then you dont know how much I love boards and surfing....
...ok...straightup 
this isn't a ad for more surfboards 
or finally grown up or dead...all ...highly unlikly 
( keep wishing) 
that won't be found in a 7s made in chinna 
)
.....i have snap my fair share boards in the past 
