Speedneedle Sets the Record Straight

Quote:Its very interesting.

!!!!!!!

i nominate that sentence as the understatement of the month.

Very cool Josh
look forward to seeing your new stuff and hearing more from you on the forum.

Congrats on the competitive success of your creations.

Will you have an "S" on your new boards?

Good Luck
Christian

Way to go Josh!

'Can't wait to see your own line of compsands!

Rio

Yep, that's me....

I saw one of your boards in a magazine, something about the top 20 shapers etc...

Loved that image...

Hey Speedy, I great to hear from you! I was wondering how the firewire life was treating you, and now I know. The firm has certainly been living up to my low expectations. Its amazing to see all that you've learned in the past couple years - your boards look amazing! I can't wait to see what you come up with in the future.

speedy,

Quote:How's the coffin going?

great, thanks for asking! unfortunately right as I pimped out my kit completely, I got a bunch of work, and have had no time at all...I did manage to "squeeze" out a board a couple weeks ago, however, and finished and rode it monday for the first time...Pretty psyched, I'll post it up as soon as I get the time (dont know when that'll be).

I also have a big'ol box of balsa and several assorted cans of sticky goo, and some free time coming up, so I'll let you know. let's just say it's already starting to smell like the undead around here...

wow, look at the sharp peaks of the deck contour on that fish...wouldn't that concentrate maximum load along a pretty narrow strip of deck as the board flexed? they look almost like upside down rail channels...

Drooooooooooooooooooool!

nice work, speedy! I'm sorry to say, but my backroom is going to shamelessly copy and exploit all of your innovative new directions! ;~)) thanks for expanding the conceivable!

wells

welcome back josh !

this place has been boring without your sprays

GREAT to have you back

when al merrick starts making "Firewire" style boards for kelly ,

then nev will REALLY be regretting things .

but if the firewire boards are not available for retail in australian surf shops soon , then al and others will step into our market ....that's my prediction , anyway . For what it's worth

time will tell , eh ?!

cheers

ben

mate
i cant thank you enough for your inspiration
hopefully we can hook up next time im over there
those boards you are building are insane man
im dying to see them in real life

maybe theres some secrets that a few of us can share with you now :)
(though you prolly know them all anyway)

hopefully Danb will start posting again as well, now you and bert are back in town

Best of luck Josh, both your art and concepts look amazing. I'm so stoked by all this stuff. I have my nylon vac bags, my RR epoxy and balsa are with the shippers and I glued up a couple of sheets of EPS last night. can't wait to get started.

With yourself and Bert working from the same technology, in the same market It'll be good to see what happens, particularly as you bring your own design concepts to the process.

Best of luck to both of you.

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hopefully Danb will start posting again as well, now you and bert are back in town

Nope, even their return isn't enough to get me posting right now ;) I tend to be rather obsessive, and only have time to obsess about one thing at a time. I just got a new diesel van (with a lot of help from Ben), and its been a huge learning curve. Since it has a few (as in lots of) miles on it I've been spending most of my free time learning how it works. For instance this weekend I get to rebuild the front end (springs, shock, bushings). However, overall the van is in great shape so it shouldn't take that much more of my time to renue its youth - then I'll be back. The plus is that its big enough to permenately store my boards in it which has been getting me out in the water a couple more times a week (I love having vented boards).

Hi Josh,

what kind of waves did you design that pink board for? seems to me it would go well on a small but nicely shaped wave. Not for grovelling but not when its pumping either. I could be wrong though. Your thoughts?

Cheers,

Rio

Aloha Josh
regarding these specs..

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1)- "Penetrator" 6'7" x 19 1/4" x 2 1/2. Double concave deck round pin. Prefab skin
2)- "Offcutter" 7'x18 3/4" x 2 3/8" Dome deck, flat bottom, round pin. Combo balsa/corecell deck.
3)- "Space Machine" 6'5 x 20 1/2" x 2 3/8 Double concave deck Twin fin 2.1 kg.
4)- "White Knight" 6'6" x 19" x 2 3/8" Concave deck, 2kg. 2 oz bottom, single 4deck, texture deck.
5)- "Two-tone" 6'6" x 19 1/4 x 2 1/4 Concave deck, two density Dcell deck, balsa springer.
6)- "El Mysterioso" 6'6" x 19 1/4 x 2 3/8 Double Concave deck. Ridiculously light.




What's your specs?
so I can put things into perspective because they seem wider than what I would envision for those lengths.
We hardly see anything out here 19"-20" wide in that length most everything is 18"-19" wide. I think Bud's board reflect best what we see in mostly our market here in Hawaii.

If you were to compare where you're at compsand wise, compared to where you where before you hooked up with Bert and the FW project, how far off would you say you were prior to the experience? Cause remembering your posts you were doing some neat things even back then in balsa compsands..
How would those boards you made back then compare to what you're doing today?

Glad to see you and Bert back.

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I'd certainly make boards for Hawaii a little narrower to accommodate the juice. You see in those specs the 7' gun is narrowest. I'm 6'3" and 85 KG. Proportionately my boards would be smaller for me than the average height dude on his 6'1.


Thanks Josh
that's what I was looking for
as I'm about 200lb but only 5'7" and old
the majority of my PU performance thruster shorties have been in the 6'8"-7'2" and 20"-21" and 2.75"-3.18" thick so I'm trying to understand how thin I need to go to get my compsand to flex right without having floatation issues.

Sitting up to your chichi's in shark infested waters by yourself is not what I consider fun.

We've been averaging 1/2"-1.5" railbands of pure balsa, balsa/cork, cedar/cork, corecel and blue dow as well. Sounds like FW decided to go narrower because when we were comparing the first generation boards to the current boards we noticed that the old fish I had was both thicker and had thicker rail bands so it seems the boards have changed in the past year.

beautiful work
best wishes

thanks again

PS
how does the double concave deck feel paddling or sitting on it versus surfing it?

Funny you mention 4 degree for drive. I was playing around with my fins lately to get MORE DRIVE.

and I was only thinking about toe in as well.....

gotta try out 4 degrees. I've stucked to 6 degrees for some reason, maybe it was that john carper video.

thanks,

Jimmy yoshio shibata.

Must be the reason the stiff ones go well.

Jimmy yoshio shibata

Come on now speedy..........let's be honest here.......

Solo signs off by saying "When dealing in lies...the truth becomes the enemy. "

Now I fully understand what he is talking about.


"I made all of Taj Burrows personal boards..........but to have Taj win on one I made........."

Honestly now.........wasn't your input in these boards just glassing them? Not exactly "making" them. Might look good on a resume though I suppose.


"The boards in the attached pics are my personal quiver:-they are the prototypes for many of aspects of Firewires construction tech, but you won't see these in their model range!"

Wouldn't that make them the property of Firewire?


Beware all you swaylockians.........it would appear that truth and honesty is further away than first thought.




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