Archive for November 2009

Tim Stamps:The Look of the 21st century shaper

Nov 22nd, 2009 | By Solo Surfer | Category: Featured

Tim Stamps is the true new breed of surfboard builder who uses computer technology and machines to create the various shapes found on the surfboard market today. Some board builders take issue with it as shaping, but to Tim who has a high level of computer and designing skills from his background at college, it’s [...]



Larry Allison: One of the Last American Professional Fin makers

Nov 21st, 2009 | By Solo Surfer | Category: Spotlight

In the early seventies, a young surfer named Larry Allison took a job jig sawing fins behind San Pedro Surf and sport. Little would he know, almost  forty years later, he would be one of the last truly American fin manufactures, working out of the same shop with the same people. [...]



Freddy Esposito: Pensacola Local and a Parent to Local Skateboarding

Nov 11th, 2009 | By Solo Surfer | Category: Interviews

Every home town beach has a group of surfers who have been the examples and represent the over all attitude of a those areas.  There are those surfers whose ability alone stand out and others whose other contributions or over all attitude of leadership in the line up have played an important role. Freddy Esposito [...]



More Trevor Tanner projects: Rathkeltair

Nov 10th, 2009 | By Solo Surfer | Category: Other

Trevor Tanner from the Bolshoi with his new celtic rock band Rathkeltair



Roger Hinds: The thinking man’s shaper

Nov 9th, 2009 | By Solo Surfer | Category: Spotlight

There are hundreds of surfers in the world who build surfboards with varying degree of quality. Roger Hinds is a surfboard builder of the old school. The school where you learned how to do every aspect of building a board and could put it all together to create a functional work of art. [...]



The Bolshoi: Lost bands

Nov 5th, 2009 | By Solo Surfer | Category: Other

The Bolshoi: Sunday Morning. One of the great songs of the eighties and a band with more influence than fame. Former Front man Trevor Tanner now sings with the Celtic Rock band Rathkeltaír. Good times.