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Feb 7, 2012, 9:03 pm
It's a day's work sanding the four 13'9" panels a total of nearly 112 feet of panel to sand. Comment - Like
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Feb 2, 2012, 7:45 pm
Ghost 12 makes it easy at the point.
A question:
Question Roy!
When you surf 4-5 foot of your board is almost always out of the water not being used for anything. Seems like a waste to me. Whats the logic?
Your premise that the part of the board which is out of the water is doing nothing is incor... Comment - Like
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Feb 1, 2012, 2:28 pm
Blocks and frames being assembled for the second internal frame panel on the 13'9" Dragon board.
Some more Ghost 12 action: Comment - Like
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Jan 31, 2012, 2:25 pm
The ledge at Manu Bay on the 12 foot Ghost pintail, short and sweet.
"In a flash I realised I'd been here before.. the endless lefts, where herds of headless beauty queens still roam free..."
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Jan 27, 2012, 3:53 pm
Craig drops in, cuts back behind me and then... splat!
http://youtu.be/DJ_YhePF6_E
Meanwhile... Comment - Like
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Jan 24, 2012, 3:37 pm
Surfing the ghost 12 at Manu Bay, Raglan, New Zealand. Buy your surf photos online. nzsurfpix.com :: Silas Hansen Comment - Like
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Jan 21, 2012, 8:49 pm
We are approaching the Year of the Dragon, which is when we build dragon Boards. :D
This coming year of the Dragon is the first one since 1964 which is a Water Dragon year, so it is exceptionally auspicious for a Dragon surfboard.
The previous Dragon Board was built during the year 2000.
At 13'9' ... Comment - Like
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Jan 11, 2012, 8:26 pm
I slept in and missed the morning offshore breeze, but found a sheltered spot at grace avenue for a couple of lefts. Comment - Like
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Jan 10, 2012, 2:08 am
Here's te Future Primitive Ghost 12 at Main Beach Mount Maunganui in New Zealand's Bay of Plenty today, the wind will turn offshore tomorrow but unfortunately oil from the wrecked cargo ship Rena ( which has just broken in two on Astrolabe reef) is due to hit the beach this evening. Comment - Like
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Jan 4, 2012, 8:21 pm
Here's the latest version of the 'tubular thruster' fin setup which we first invented during 2005.
These fins are Paulownia with epoxy resin and graphite over polyester cloth, the first prototypes were made from plumbing pipe.
No fin boxes the fins are set into the board
There's only about 1/8" of... Comment - Like
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Jan 2, 2012, 8:30 pm
Here the Future Primitive Ghost 12 gives a taste of its exceptional and effortless section making ability. The board reacts instinctively and with great subtlety to changes in wave shape.
Riding the Ghost is quite a big change from the Earl, with an extra foot and a half in length, three inches l... Comment - Like
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Dec 28, 2011, 3:31 pm
Here the versatility of the Eearl 10-6 can be seen as it navigates lumpy onshore conditions on Christmas eve. at Hart st in Mount Maunganui, Bay of Plenty New Zealand. In spite of the fact that the weather was sunny, the surf was up and it was a holdiay in a surf town of over 100,000 people no one e... Comment - Like
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Dec 27, 2011, 11:46 pm
Here's the Future Primitive Ghost 11 foot surfboard prior to being launched for the first time.
Specifications:
length: 11feet
Width: 23 inches
Thickness: 1 & 7/8 inches
Weight: 20.5 pounds
Volume: 63 litres approximately
Fin:11 inch cutaway elliptical plan shape 'spitfire' with leading edge tuberc... Comment - Like
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Dec 20, 2011, 4:50 am
The revolution' spitfire fins which are the usual subject of spitfire fin tests have a few problems when used as examples of elliptical planform fins.
One is that they are not even close to an elliptical planform, the tip are in planform is way too tnarrow and is almost pointed.
Another is the th... Comment - Like
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Dec 12, 2011, 4:16 am
Paulownia cored graphite tunnel plus side fins for the new pretender 9'5"
http://www.olosurfer.com/images/vortex%20fins.jpg
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Oct 31, 2011, 12:04 am
Here's the latest from artist and surfboard builder 'Seeka', who built himself a beautiful modified 'Makaha' singlefin .
http://olosurfer-woodensurfboardsatpipeline.blogspot.com/2011/02/seekas-new-10-pintail.html
"Last week i went for a surf and finally got to tackle some doh smoothness. i had a s... Comment - Like
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Oct 24, 2011, 2:03 am
Earl 10'6" luxury wooden surfboard Price: US$471,000
http://olosurfer-woodensurfboardsatpipeline.blogspot.com/2011/10/earl-106-ride-report.html
http://olosurfer-woodensurfboardsatpipeline.blogspot.com/2011/03/earl-106-hws-pintail-singlefin-resin.html
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Oct 10, 2011, 1:55 am
A pair of paulownia tuberculed spitfire cutaway fins, made from a 6 layer multi directional lamination. One is for the new Future Primitive 'Ghost' 11 footer, the other will fit a fin box installed on a Duke 9'3" called 'The Duchess' because it's been built by Sandy who is a member of the fairer sex... Comment - Like
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Oct 2, 2011, 2:54 am
"Fashioned using a flexible, hollow torsion-box assembly, the result has a distinctly low thickness-to-length ratio, ensuring an exceptional ride set low to the water."
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Oct 1, 2011, 6:19 pm
Heading to the beach at Mount Maunganui's Main Beach after testing the tubercule finned Earl 10'6". The verdict on both the fin and the board: 10/10. The leading edge tubercules on the spitfire feel fantastic. The difference is somewhat analagous to paddling with the fingers together compared with h... Comment - Like
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Sep 28, 2011, 3:52 pm
Leash plugs from knurled stainless steel pipe, available for $40 from roy@olosurfer.com: Comment - Like
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Sep 28, 2011, 3:40 pm
The new Rogue 9'5" round tail revealing the single concave bottom which is laminated into the paulownia panels during construction
The concave creates a matching convex or dome in the deck, ensuring that the rider's feet are always the same distance from the hull's wetted surface. Comment - Like
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Sep 11, 2011, 5:56 am
Baron defies conventional design wisdom to achieve exceptional 40mph plus performance and a smooth magic carpet like ride.
Baron's distinctive military 'Art Brut' tangential lines and voluptuous curvilinear forms are a classic example of artistic form following functional purpose.
Leng... Comment - Like
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Sep 2, 2011, 6:33 am
Gordon 02 December 2007:
Thanks Kat for bringing the board this way, it definitely has a WOW factor when you see it up close; the rails and the fin are especially detailed and the whole thing flows nicely from its tip through its dramatic rocker shape to the extreme pintail. Roy has a genuine t... Comment - Like
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Sep 1, 2011, 10:19 pm
Here's James 'Hunty' during the 2008 'Olo Hikoi' of New Zealand reporting from from Kaitaia about his time with the Ghost 13 footer.
Hunty reporting from Northland:
Hi every one the olo board is now in Northland.This is how the day’s events went down: it was up at 3 am for a 4 am departure from ... Comment - Like
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Aug 29, 2011, 9:17 pm
It's a postmodern surfboard type which does not taper in profile i.e it is the same thickness from nose to tail.
Postmodernism implies a timeline but it is really more about ideology, paradoxically its elements have always existed.
In my opinion modernism and late modernism still predominate. In ... Comment - Like
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Aug 18, 2011, 10:10 pm
Museum of Arts and Design 'Against the Grain' exhibition:
I've been invited to participate in this 2012 exhibition which will be running in Charlotte North Carolina for 4 months and then in New York City for a further 4 months. I'm sending the 19 foot 'Olo of the Sun'. The invitation described ... Comment - Like
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Aug 15, 2011, 7:41 pm
So, what is a flex pattern and how does flex occur in surfboards when they are being ridden ?
Firstly with regard to the term 'flex pattern'. It is used by hundreds of surfboard shapers throughout the industry without any reference to what it might mean, and with no examples of what a flex pattern m... Comment - Like
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Aug 4, 2011, 5:41 pm
Paulownia core/epoxy resin/graphite fins for the Rogue 9'5":
Here are the three fins for the new Rogue 9'5" which I'm building currently. It's a round tail and will have a moderately deep single concave, with around 5.5" of rocker ( nose and tail ) with a wide point 30% aft. I'll post pictures ... Comment - Like
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Jul 24, 2011, 6:06 pm
After all these internet years Roy Stewart's legendary wood board is at Cafe Haleiwa. Duncan Campbell of Campbell Brothers Bonzer Surfboards is going to ride it soon.
Radical.
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Jul 16, 2011, 11:45 pm
Earl 10'6" parallel profile paulownia surfboard with tuberculed spitfire cutaway fin by Roy Stuart. This board is based on the 12' Ghost. Comment - Like
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Jul 14, 2011, 8:49 pm
Here's a 9 inch paulownia cutaway D fin which is using a fin base designed for wooden fins by Brad Tucker at woodsurfboardsupply.com.
http://www.woodsurfboardsupply.com/
The tab is convenient to install and comes in several different sizes Comment - Like
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Jul 9, 2011, 4:22 am
Here's the trusty 13' Ghost with two traditional Tom Blake era hollow wooden surfboards which are being restored for the bi-annual antique surfboard auction held in Hawaii
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Jul 5, 2011, 12:48 am
Roy Stewart rode his first wave at age four.
By nine he had built his first surfboard with
a cousin, using their grandfather’s tools and
knowledge gleaned from books on aerodynamics,
hydrodynamics and shipbuilding. Since then the
New Zealand surfer and carpenter has been on a
quest for the perfect... Comment - Like
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Jun 4, 2011, 5:31 pm
Rogue 9'5" by 24' by 2.25" with tunnel plus two fin setup and micro stepped hull.
Here's the paulownia frame and blocking stock.
The construction method is the 3 internal layer system which was used on the Future Primitive 'Ghost' 13 footer, it's used when we need to bend the panels to a tight nose... Comment - Like
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May 28, 2011, 4:43 am
" So you think you’re a shaper? Roy Stewart is the real deal, his best work to date took 4 years to make! We sat down with Roy to hear why he thinks many of you are a “circus full of performing monkeys”, why the Olosurfer is the Sport of Kings, and how he plans to “reinstate the Sport o... Comment - Like
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May 24, 2011, 5:23 am
A parallel profile 5'6" by 21" by 1.5" 'Original Sim' paulownia slab inspired by Bob Simmons.Volume 27 litres. Comment - Like
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May 13, 2011, 10:03 pm
Roy
I have a good look at your website, absolutely amazing your craftsmanship creativity is mind blowing, great stuff and your asking price must surely take surfboard building to a new level of awareness. Interesting reading your email, my aim was and still is the big 3 surfing companies domin... Comment - Like
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May 6, 2011, 7:37 am
Everything in my surfing philosophy follows from the idea of pure surfing. To purify surfing I discard that which isn't necessary to the experience. We hear of old school and new school but my philosophy is 'Easy School". It's simply about being there. There's a lot of clutter and social expectat... Comment - Like
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May 3, 2011, 6:24 am
From the latest issue of United Airlines' 'Hemisphere' magazine:
Roy Stuart crafts a singular surfboard
"According to surfboard maker Roy Stuart's website, the unusually shaped Chieftain represents a triumph of imagination over practicality - which is pretty much true of surfing itself. One tas... Comment - Like
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Apr 28, 2011, 10:00 pm
5 mm Brass rods are inserted through the tab into the wooden fin
The finished 10inch spitfire cutaway fin Comment - Like
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Apr 19, 2011, 4:54 pm
A preview from a recent photo session featuring the Baron 12 footer for an upcoming Surfer magazine article. Comment - Like
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Apr 14, 2011, 9:54 pm
The noseriding goal ensures that the design is a dog from the start, using noseriding as a goal is a bankrupt idea from a functional point of view.
In terms of waveriding function, even in shorter lengths ( 9 foot range ) the anomalies of the noseriding shape are plain to see, it has no sweet s... Comment - Like
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Apr 11, 2011, 12:51 am
My inspiration for surfing has always been to harmonise with the forces of nature, rather than to impose myself and my personality on them. It is what we call 'Pure Surfing'
. It is also known in Hawaii as the 'make it easy' school. Pure surfing is not the aim of the mass market surf indust... Comment - Like
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