The Picky Quad is finished

A minha nova prancha está pronta! A laminação ficou fantástica bem como o polimento. O Nico fez um trabalho incrivel.

My new surfboard is ready. Amazing glass job and polish. Nico did an amazing job.

The Picky Quad by Wavegliders
5'10 x 20"1/2 x 2"1/2
Dark Blue resin tint with white resin band and light blue resin stripes
Gloss and Polish
Lokbox fins

Josh Hall em Portugal

A Magic Quiver traz a Portugal o shaper de San Diego, Califórnia, Josh Hall (Josh Hall Surfboards).

A vinda do Josh Hall a Portugal está integrada na sua tournée Europeia durante a qual irá visitar também França e Espanha. A viagem que se inicia por terras Francesas em Outubro de 2009, terá a duração de 1 mês e destina-se a promover o seu trabalho junto dos surfistas Europeus, fazendo algumas pranchas e contactando com potenciais clientes. Josh Hall traz até nós os seus fantásticos shapes resultado de anos de trabalho com o seu mestre Skip Frye e de colaborações com nomes como Andy Davis, Tyler Warren, Thomas Campbell e Richard Kenvin.

Josh deverá chegar a Portugal no início de Novembro e irá trabalhar na fábrica da Wavegliders, sendo a pranchas posteriormente laminadas pelo Nico. A Magic Quiver associa-se mais uma vez á Wavegliders, garantindo que os fantásticos shapes do Josh Hall recebem acabamentos do mais alto nível.

Josh Hall começou a surfar aos 14 anos em San Diego e aos 18 anos conheceu Skip Frye com quem começou a partilhar o surf e a sala de shape. Após terminar os estudos e ter viajado bastante Josh dedicou-se definitivamente ao shape. Influenciado pelos designs do seu amigo Skip Frye, com quem partilha a paixão pelo surf Down the Line e Trimming e pelo estilo clássico e relaxado de Joel Tudor, Josh Hall apresenta cerca de 30 modelos diferentes, todos 100% handmade, como as clássicas San Diego Fish, as Twin Keel, as Quad Rocket Fish, Egg’s, Swallowtails, Longboards e as enormes Big Pin de 12’.

Todas as pranchas serão feitas á mão pelo próprio Josh e podem ser encomendadas contactando a Magic Quiver:
e-mail: magicquiver@gmail.com
telf: (+351) 919936850

Josh Hall Surfboards Tours Europe

Josh Hall Surfboards Tours EuropeAmerican Shaper Josh Hall to Travel to Europe to Break Into European Surf Market



SAN DIEGO, CA (September 22, 2009)—Josh Hall Surfboards opens to the European surf market with new high quality, 100% handcrafted boutique surfboards this fall. San Diego native Josh Hall will travel to France, Portugal and Spain and establish relationships with European surf shops in October 2009. Hall will take Europe by storm shaping custom boards for new customers and collaborating with Europe's top surf shops to welcome his superior custom shaped surfboards overseas.

“It’s been a dream of mine to shape in Spain and I can’t wait to get out there,” says Hall. “I think that my boards and shaping style will fit well into the growing niche of surfers who want boutique boards from California.”

Josh Hall will shape his handcrafted boards in Hossegor, France beginning October 25 before traveling on to Portugal in November. In hopes to showcase his custom boards, Josh Hall will spend over a month in Europe shaping, surfing and meeting new clientele. Hall has established his American audience and has worked directly with the legendary Skip Frye and collaborated with Andy Davis, Tyler Warren, Thomas Campbell, and Richard Kenvin.

Check out the Josh Hall Surfboards blog The Hole in the Hall <http://theholeinthehall.blogspot.com/> for European tour updates and photos featuring new boards, collaborations and projects.


Photo Credit: Ryan Tartar

About Josh Hall Surfboards
Born in San Diego, California, Josh Hall has been surfing since he was a teen. He learned his craft from master surfer/shaper Skip Frye and has been expanding his hand crafted boards since 2006. With over 30 models, Hall shapes 100% handcrafted boutique surfboards. Josh Hall enjoys surfing in San Diego, CA.

Josh Hall Surfboards in Europe
United Kingdom: Tim Mason, Perfect Trip Surfboards (tim@perfecttrim.co.uk)
France: Phillipe Rodes, Spyder Surf (philrodes@aol.com)
Portugal: Rui Ribeiro, Magic Quiver (magicquiver@gmail.com)
Italy: Alessandro Marchi, Black Van (alessandro_sandy@hotmail.com)

Utopia Boardbags

O correio trouxe uma bela surpresa, um saco novo para a Picky Quad. Este é um saco especial. Em vez de um produto feito na china por alguém que nunca viu o mar, este é um saco fabricado pela Utopia, uma fábrica francesa, propriedade de surfistas e especializada em fabricar sacos de qualidade e com a fantástica particularidade de serem 100% personalizados, desde a escolha das cores, acabamentos até ás medidas exactas. Agora já podemos ter um bom saco para aquela prancha que não de adapta a nenhum saco comum.
O saco é muito bom com costuras bem feitas com materiais de primeira, muito resistentes. È o melhor saco que já tive nas mãos. Feito para durar.
A Magic Quiver aceita encomendas de sacos para particulares e lojas/marcas com a possibilidade de impressão do logótipo.

The mail brought a nice surprise, a new boardbag for the Picky Quad. And this one is a very special one. Instead of buying a bag made in china by some guy who never saw the ocean, this one is made in France by a Utopia, a company owned by Surfers. The bags are very well build using high quality materials and can be 100% fully customized to fit the costumers needs, from colours and materials to the exact measurements to fit any surfboard. Now you can get a good bag to fit that special surfboard hat don’t fit in common bags.
The bag is very well built, with nice stitching; high quality materials that look like will hold everything giving the board great protection. Probably the best boadbag I’ve seen.
Magic Quiver is taking orders for this quality bags. If you have a shop/surfboard company and want some with your own logo, contact me.

Von Sol action

Some photos of Sean Mattison riding 2 of the new Von Sol models.
Great surfing like always!

Von Sol

Hoje, durante o Fish Fry de Ocenaside, foi oficialmente apresentada a nova marca de pranchas do Sean Mattison, Von Sol.

Today, during the Oceanside Fish Fry, it was finally unveil Sean Mattison new label, Von Sol.

They look so good!! Great work Sean, all the best!

Glassing the Picky part 2

Deck:

Glassing the Picky

Work By Nico
Photos by Hugo Correia

Glasssing the Bottom:

Gone Fishing - DJ Kane Interview

Gone fishing

It’s a big leap from a backporch in Florida to a shaping bay at Moonlight, but under Rich Pavel’s tutelage, DJ Kane has made the transition. Famous for his performance fish, on a recent trip to Portugal he explained the origins of the Swordfish, and why he’ll never be cruising on a hull…

You're originally from Florida, where it can’t have been hard to lay your hands on a board – why did you start shaping?
Growing up in Florida, you have one surfboard that you basically ride in whatever conditions the ocean throws at you. When I was about 14, there was a big resurgence in old boards – Channel Islands had just started making their singlefins and people were starting to look back towards fish. I didn’t know anyone who had one, and I couldn’t afford to buy one, so I decided to make them myself. My parents have always been super supportive of everything I've done, whether it was sports, or schooling, or surfing. I was really fortunate – they were cool enough to let me take over their back porch and ruin it with resin and paint and track foam dust into the house. When I go back home nowadays it's cool to see my old workplace all cleaned up and nice.

What about that first board? Did it work well?
My first board was a copy of 5’8 BAT shortboard that I was riding at the time. It turned out alright. Looked sort of symmetrical. I’m not sure how it rode, actually, because I sold it to a friend before it was finished so I could make another. I came home after school in my 9th-grade year and shaped them for hours and hours. Then I convinced my mom to loan me some money to buy tools and fibreglass and stuff. The next summer I worked as a labourer for a friend’s construction company to pay her back.

A few years later you moved to California. Did Florida not offer as many opportunities for a shaper?
California is the epicentre of the surfboard industry. I decided to move here a few months before I graduated high school. Sure, I could have stayed in Florida and shaped boards – my parents would probably been happier with that – but I had an opportunity to go, and a place to stay, and seeing that I had already been out here a couple of times and seen the guys at Moonlight do their thing, it was a no-brainer. So I filled my truck with all my stuff and drove across the country a week after I graduated high school.

Where did you start?
I didn’t have any work for the first month after I moved here; I just surfed and rode around with my roommate learning all the different spots and poking my head in all the different factories. My first job was at Global Glassing – quality control and finishing boards. Shortly after I was working at Moonlight as well, going to Moonlight in the mornings and Global later. It was really cool to be working on boards for some of the biggest names in the world. Everything was new and fresh. The industry was booming and Global was making 100-125 boards a week, so I was very busy. Moonlight has never been about numbers, more about putting out one-of-a-kind beautiful boards.

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Podem ler a entrevista completa no site da Drift
You can read the full interview at Drift Website

English version: http://www.driftsurfing.eu/?p=1970

Versaõ Portuguesa: http://www.driftsurfing.eu/?p=1986

Thanks DJ

Bonzer time

Ainda há alguns blanks disponiveis mas estão a acabar depressa. Encomenda a tua Bonzer rápido, não percas a oportunidade.

Still a few blanks available but they are going fast. Order your Bonzer now, don't miss the opportunity.

info: magicquiver@gmail.com

Malcolm interview on Surfers Path Mag http://surferspath.com/features/opening-the-door-on-the-quiet-revolution

Russ Short surfing with a Bonzer in 1977 (Russ short Light Vehicle model)