Who makes the best small wave quads in Australia?
Terminal wrote:Who are the masters? I need a new one and would like opinions from any fellow quad riders out there.
Handshapers, not offshore factory boards.
No one and everyone but not McCoy unless you add the 4th and 5th plugs yourself.
Also, nothing wrong with riding boards made in Asia, they are designed in Hawaii, Australia,,California and Europe and they work.
Want a custom from a local shaper get an Outer Island or a Simon Jones, really good prices for those shapers.
Probably not hand shaped, but Oz made, hand finished
Muz Bourton
Gary McNeill
Handshaped
Jono Cole
Bryan Bates
DVS
These are interesting
MR added to lostdoggy’s list
lostdoggy wrote:Probably not hand shaped, but Oz made, hand finished
Muz Bourton
Gary McNeillHandshaped
Jono Cole
Bryan Bates
DVS
Bryan Bates has a really nice one on his site, really nice
quadzilla wrote:No one and everyone but not McCoy unless you add the 4th and 5th plugs yourself.
Also, nothing wrong with riding boards made in Asia, they are designed in Hawaii, Australia,,California and Europe and they work.
Want a custom from a local shaper get an Outer Island or a Simon Jones, really good prices for those shapers.
Not sure if trolling with pricing for Jones and OE, but yeah Mitchell's quads are nice. Nothing against offshore boards other than they're normally super light and I prefer heavy PU boards (probably the only person on the face of the Earth that prefers relatively heavy shortboards).
Terminal wrote:quadzilla wrote:No one and everyone but not McCoy unless you add the 4th and 5th plugs yourself.
Also, nothing wrong with riding boards made in Asia, they are designed in Hawaii, Australia,,California and Europe and they work.
Want a custom from a local shaper get an Outer Island or a Simon Jones, really good prices for those shapers.
Not sure if trolling with pricing for Jones and OE, but yeah Mitchell's quads are nice. Nothing against offshore boards other than they're normally super light and I prefer heavy PU boards (probably the only person on the face of the Earth that prefers relatively heavy shortboards).
Guilty, Outers/Jones are both overpriced by so much its not funny.The prices are GOOD for the shapers but not for the customers.
Pipedream/Bourton work really well and realistically priced and can have extra glass to add weight.Murray has a LOT of shapes to choose from.FatBullet>>>Missiles or Pingers,all go like the clappers.
Terminal, I've been surfing one of these for a couple of years now and it's one of the best boards I've ever surfed in anything from waist high to just overhead, it's been my go to board ever since I got it. Five plugs in mine and the quad set up is skatey and fast but gets on a rail easily without bogging down while the tri fin setup settles it down a bit when the waves get bigger.
Mike does the full custom hand shape and you'll get what you ask for.
That Mike P fish interesting to me in the photos, the fcs board has the quad boxes halfway between the rail box and centre box and the futures board got it closer to the centre.
I prefer the position of the orange board personally but the other probably nice and skatey in small waves
Not sure about that difference lostdoggy but one thing is that the front fins are back further, more like a thruster setup, compared to other quads I have and the overall quad set is a tighter cluster as well which might explain why it gets a bit twitchy in bigger waves but switching it out to a thruster fixes that. Could probably use a bigger rear set of quad fins also but haven't tried that. Overall though it's a brilliant board
Who are the masters? I need a new one and would like opinions from any fellow quad riders out there.