March 31st, 5 pm

Magic Quiver on the news

Sorry for the lack of news but been some busy days. Works inside the shop are going well and stock should be here in a couple days. Not far from opening!

This weekend has been good for Magic Quiver. An article about me and Magic Quiver was published on Dinheiro Vivo website and also featured in 2 major portuguese newspapers, JN and DN. And my interview and photos of Neal Purchase Jnr was published on portuguese surf mag, SurfPortugal!
Couldn't ask for better publicity!
HUGE thanks to Andre Macedo and Mariana de Araújo Barbosa from Dinheiro Vivo and João Valente from SurfPortugal for their support.

I'm very happy with the way everything is coming along!

Rhythm

Rhythm is an Australian company founded in 2004 by Neal Purchase Jnr, Jamal Grey and Peter Grey.
The idea was to incorporate their lifestyle into art and garments, staying out of the mainstream.

Their Spring/Summer collection offers a wide variety of Tee's, shirts, boardshorts, walkshorts, pants and a lot more. Great styles, good quality and nice prints.

get my hands dirty

To save some time and money, I'm doing some of the construction work myself. Mostly ripping old floor, tearing down wall footers, clean old stuff from the walls, etc. Even the hardiest and heaviest work feels easy because I'm my shop, it's my dream. Instead or giving all the work to professionals, I'm getting involved and sweating to get the job done.

The shop needs a lot of work. It was in pretty bad shape. Between changing the electrical system, fixing walls, getting a new floor and new painting, there's a lot to be done before we start to get furniture inside.

The decision about the decoration wasn't easy. Had so many ideas that was hard to settle them down. But, fortunately, I have a really good architect working with me who instantly understood the concept and was able to translate it into a beautiful project.

I will do my best to share with you a bit of this process but as you can imagine, I can't show everything. Soon I will announce the opening date. It's not far!

Board #1

Today I've started to build the shop. Remove old floor, wiring, garbage... Next week it will start to get a new look.

So it's time to tell more about the shop and what you will find inside it.
I'll start with a surfboard (what else!!)

First (for no particular reason) it's a beautiful 5'11 Quad Fish by Josh Hall. Board features a full tint in some kind of rusty orange, a shiny polish, and Lokbox plugs.
Shape came out amazing, with perfect volume distribution, nice rails and Josh performance bottom contours, with enough vee to make your rail to rail transitions easy and fast. One of the best Quads I've seen from Josh.
Glassing by Blend Glassing and as always, flawless!