Sew 'n Sing

Had the pleasure to meet the nice girls from Sew 'n Sing at the Salinas Longboard Festival. It was also the opportunity to see their beautiful surfboard bags in person. I have to say that I was really well impressed. The quality meets the looks. Well made, with perfect stitching and a wax/waterproof material inside to protect the fabric. And all in an exclusive one of a kind hand made bag.
I couldn't resist getting one for my Twin Keel.

Fresh Kooks

A batch of Kooks just arrived in the mail. Kook #2 is even better than Kook #1. More mature, with loads of interesting stuff and that fresh out of the box look.
For me it's a huge honor to have 3 small text in it. Hope you like them.
I have some to sell but only for Portugal, if you live anywhere else, just visit http://kookpaper.blogspot.com/  and get your copy.

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Para facilitar a vida aos Portugueses que desejam adquirir uma cópia da Kook, agora podem fazê-lo através da Magic Quiver poupando tempo e dinheiro. O envio será feito por correio e o pagamento por transferência bancária ou Paypal. Preço: 4,5 euros
contacto: magicquiver@gmail.com

Ryan landed at Blend

Ryan Lovelace is already in France, at Blend Glassing, in Soustons.
Ryan will stay there till the end of the month so you're still on time to order one of his shapes.
We can ship it anywhere in Europe if you need.

Check out Ryan new website for his models: http://rlovelace.com/

shaping the first blank in france, a Pocket Pickle, photo by Nico

Twin keel photos

Been a while since I post a photo of a surfboard in my lawn! It’s nice to finally have fresh foam and resin at home!

My new surfboard shaped and glassed by Manila, of MSD Surfboards, in Aveiro, Portugal.

Asked him to do a performance Twin Keel with good waves in mind. A light glassjob to keep it fast and responsive and glass on wood fins to match a clean and simple white tint and wetsanded finish. The result exceeded my best expectations. The boards carries good volume while keeping low rails and thin tail. The smooth single concave to vee bottom provides speed and easy rail to rail transitions. All perfectly shaped, nothing out of place.

I only had one session with it and the waves weren’t good enough so I will leave feedback for later but first impressions were really good. It will be amazing on a good wave.

Dims: 5’10 x 20” ¾ x 2” 5/8

Wood fins by Quilhas Alfredo

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Ryan Lovelace is back

After a very successful trip last year, Ryan Lovelace returns to Europe.

Ryan is coming from August 15 to 31 and this time he will shape in France, at Blend Glassing, in Soustons. All boards will be glassed by Nico from Wavegliders, who is currently working there, and the Blend crew.

Ryan Lovelace is one of the most talented and creative shapers from California and has been Considered one of the most talented and innovative shapers from California, Ryan is all about fluid curves and surfing with the wave instead of surfing against it. His designs come from his environment, from the boards he sees and surfs and the waves around. Although not following anyone, his boards get some ideas from names like George Greenough and Greg Liddle. But like he said on a interview for Drift “I don’t have influences or a preconceived notion of what works and what doesn’t. I’m free to do whatever I want and explore any path I find interesting”.

All boards will be 100% hand shaped by Ryan and fully adapted to the surfer’s needs and waves. High quality finishing will be done by master glassers Nico (from Wavegliders) and Fabrice from Blend Glassing.

Shipping across Europe available and wholesale prices for shops on request.

For more info contact by e-mail: magicquiver@gmail.com

Twin Keel

First shots of my new surfboard. A beautiful Twin Keel by the talented Manila at MSD Surfboards, in Portugal.
Board is 5'10 x 20" 3/4 x 2" 5/8 with a light white tint, wetsanded finish and glass on fins by Quilhas Alfredo.

Glassed light and shaped with good waves in mind. Can't wait to try it.

Here's a couple shots taken in Salinas with my friend Chris holding it.

Salinas

Friday 6:30 am I left home on a solo trip journey to the X Salinas Longboard Festival.

For a couple years I’ve been hearing good things about the Festival but never had the opportunity or really big motive to go there. I’m not even a longboarder!
This year I had tons of reasons to go. A few potential business partners were going there, some good friends and also a few of my Spanish costumers and online friends. Just for the opportunity of meeting a lot of people I talk online, the drive was worth.
And it was quite a long drive, 8h. But what I found there made it really worth.

The organizers put out an amazing Festival. The ambience was really nice, with everybody having fun. Salinas is a beautiful town/beach that provided us some nice waves and a warm sun.
I was expecting it to be big, with a good crowd but I was impressed on how big it really was. I won’t talk about numbers, we’ll leave it for the organizers but there were a lot of people there. The “camping” where we slept was packed and trying to catch a wave between the huge crowds of longboarders was a hard task.

I went there to meet some shapers and business partners and that turn out a huge success. Had great talks with the Bing Crew: Matt Calvani and his wife/sales manager Margaret, Chris Del Moro and Bing Copeland (huge respect to this legend, nice to everybody all weekend), Jaime from Tablas Surf Shop, Robin Kegel, Josh Hall, Manila (delivered there my new surfboard), the talented and super nice girls from Sew and Sing, the Panadero Brothers/Gliders House; Miguel and Eduardo, the Fish Brotherhood; Alex and Nuno and my friends from Wavegliders, just to name a few. Even got some words with Joel Tudor about Kookbox!

Can’t forget all the nice people that I met, like Jose, Chusma, Oier and many others that just stopped for a couple minutes to say hi and meet. A BIG THANKS to all of you. It was great to see how many people knew Magic Quiver. Unfortunately time wasn’t enough to meet more of you and share some waves.
I got some surf, talked a lot (almost lost my voice), had some beers, watched the amazing surf from the Duct Tape guys, saw great movies on the big screen and most important HAD A LOT OF FUN!

Congratulations to the organizers. You manage to put out a great Festival and I only regret for all the years I’ve missed it.

A Final word to my good friend Chris Haiderer, who joined me there and shared all the good moments. Chris is working on the design for the future shop and I will never me able to pay him for his help and continuous support. OBRIGADO Chris!