FlexTails

Ok, once I get good enough to not eff up a blank, I want to make something like this. Its a flextail quad fish with tapered stringer by DK...and its sooo nice:



DK is an up and coming shaper along with a bunch of others (M. Caro, I. Zamora, D. Hess, and J. Hall) who are re-"shaping" (sorry, couldn't resist) the custom surfboard industry. These young, Pavel/Frye-influenced shapers and the shapes they create are just so much more interesting than the old school big name sellouts like Merrick, Rusty, JC, Biolas, et al (ahem, *cough*cough*... Surftech... *cough*cough*). Dunno, thats just my $0.021563. Man, ever since this shaping thing has taken over my life, I've become such a shaper snob.

Anyways, get a glimpse of the new school here.

Still waiting for blanks... :(