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H.W. Fowler's Modern english usage

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Modern english usage, is like waves of the sea, moving onward with onward rise and fall, connected yet separate, like but different, suggestive of some law, too complex for analysis or statement, controlling the relations between wave and wave,waves and sea, phrase and phrase, phrases and speech... Metre is measurement, rhythm is flow, a flow with pulsations as infinitely various as the shape and size and speed of waves, and infinite variety is not amenable to tabulation such as applied to metre.
- H. W. Fowler -

Brown field colour

2010-04-05T02:08:00.000-07:00

Man's best friends

2010-04-03T02:54:00.001-07:00

Twinzer EPS/ epoxy longboard

2010-03-20T06:33:00.000-07:00

Twinzers and quads can make surprisingly fun nose riders...

Joss Wescombe

2010-03-15T11:06:00.001-07:00

another one of the younger guys willing to support local shapers. With so much stuff out there it's encouraging and rewarding to work with good surfers like Joss, who are more than willing to try out different board designs and, more importantly they want to understand the intricacies of design, helping to push their surfing and perspectives simultaneously.

Ryan Hammond - Noosa

2010-03-11T02:59:00.000-08:00

Ryan Hammond is a vey stylish brit surfer, and very accomplished, he took 2nd place at the british longboard juniors on one of my mals. He has since gone on to ride for Empire, beautiful handcrafted boards for temporal riders - long live grace!

Tom Cross - balance point - southern hemisphere

2010-03-07T04:24:00.001-08:00

Tom Cross has being riding my boards for sometime now; watching him progress and riding the boards has been invaluable - Tom on the Tip!

URBAN COLOUR!

2010-03-05T00:51:00.000-08:00

A BIT OF URBAN COLOUR BY RICH MATHERS AND FRIEND

Drift article on eps/ epoxy

2010-03-02T07:44:00.001-08:00

Mark Sankey discusses the merits of eps with Myself and the mighty Rob Royal, pics by Ollie.

Robbie's FC 5' 10'' Flying Pie!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-02-26T08:43:00.000-08:00

THE FLYING PIE: 5'x 10'' designed by saltburn surfer robbie Hildreth, 2 x 6oz bottom 2 x 6 oz top + 1 x 4 oz, stringerless eps/ epoxy with reinforced rails.

Early Planck single fin

2010-02-25T01:58:00.000-08:00

Found this picture online of a Planck shaped, I think, for cool classics surf shop in scarborough before it closed in 2002.

KooK

2010-02-21T04:20:00.000-08:00

KooK a surfing newspaper, published independently and printed in the UK on paper from sustainable forests.

Horses for courses

2010-02-21T03:10:00.000-08:00

Whatever puts a smile on your face, Rich Mathers with a 6' 0'' thruster xps/epoxy with perimeter rail stringers

Ozzie's go camping

2010-02-14T02:53:00.000-08:00

"When the Ozzie's go camping, they go camping. A fridge freezer, a double bed and an air con unit are among some of the essentials to be stashed away in their small house sized tents.
Me Ryan and Tom have been camping for the last three weeks now in the top corner of a small family camp site in Byron bay. The weathers been so good we're spending most of the mid day heat in the shade of a rubber tree. Consistent head high swells have been wrapping round the corner on to the pass. Up until the last couple of days head high super wackable waves have been fun to say the least, a short lull in the swell and it should pick back up again next week.
Its great to be able to see surfers of the quality of Danny Wills surfing the same waves as you on a daily basis. its very crowded in the water but we've been doing our fair share of hassling and represent the north east among the Devon crew out here.
Looks like we'll be in a van in the near future heading up the coast towards the Goldie. Will keep you posted."

by Joss Wescombe

2010-02-12T03:35:00.000-08:00

6' 4'' Planck Simmons

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My Daughter Nemina

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Planck Bonzer Three in the sun

2010-01-28T06:03:00.000-08:00

Only me out at this point break: Planck as good at home as abroad!
Picture taken by my lovely wife Sally...

6'2" Planck 3 fin Bonzer Ice breaker

2010-01-27T07:00:00.000-08:00

Just what you need for the winter freeze. A Planck icebreaker bonzer. Tested in severe low temps giving a cracking good ride

Planck 6' 3'' eps/ epoxy incut/bonefish

2010-01-10T07:28:00.000-08:00

incut for Tim

Planck 8' 0'' displacemnt hull

2010-01-10T07:18:00.000-08:00

Racing green tint for Ollie, single fin displacement hull

Pole Dancer - on a 9' 6'' double tint

2009-12-20T06:54:00.000-08:00

pic: Ollie Banks/ mark d. with a bit of girth

Joss Wescombe 5' 10'' epoxy/ parabolic

2009-11-16T06:18:00.001-08:00

Picture courtesy of www.flickr.com/boogieabz

Planck 9'0 neo-traditional, i-beam parabolic with epoxy tint

2009-11-15T10:01:00.000-08:00

Pen work by Mark 'Piq' Pickering

Rich Mathers 6' 0'' eps parabolic

2009-11-14T06:20:00.000-08:00

Rich Mathers tri-fin fun

2009-11-09T04:54:00.000-08:00

Steve Crawford twin fin fun

2009-11-09T04:42:00.001-08:00

Joss Wescombe in flight entertainment

2009-10-28T09:05:00.000-07:00

5' 5'' fluidconcept twin fin flash

9' 2'' PLANCK Longboard

2009-10-05T07:32:00.000-07:00

9'2'' eps/epoxy tint for John

9' Carbon/ Kevlar performance mal

2009-09-28T09:30:00.000-07:00

handcrafted kevlar for east coast legend Gary Rogers

2 x 6' 7'' rock-it-fish v-cut swallow/ fish tail

2009-09-27T08:19:00.000-07:00

100% handshaped for Rik 'n' Rob

6' 4'' rail stringered (Parabolic)

2009-09-20T06:50:00.001-07:00

for Pat...

Blanks 'n' Boards

2009-09-16T10:09:00.000-07:00

Triaxial eps/epoxy for Dave

2009-08-28T01:09:00.000-07:00

15oz triaxial deck, bottom and rails: hand laminated with epoxy on a handshaped eps core which was blown in the uk - so it hasn't done the airmails. This laminate is not the same as bi-axial cloth, its stronger and has an unbeatable strength to weight ratio.

i-beam stringered 9'0'' performer

2009-08-25T11:16:00.000-07:00

Eps foam made in the uk, solvent free epoxy, i-beam stringers 16 oz top 16 oz bottom
100% handmade.. this board is built to go as vertical as you can! Exceptionally light and durbale the board will flex on the vertical axis to help the board plane better on the nose the effect is similar to the Harbour cheater II model but using an ibeam string instead. The i-baem help create a stiff rail section which under compression allows a powerful rider to spring out of the turn reducing the truning arc and making for a more vertical ride.

Empire Mode tint

2009-08-14T02:47:00.001-07:00

Planck nu-wave single fin

2009-07-22T11:27:00.000-07:00

6' 2'' single fin

Mr Banks 'Planck' Super Skimmer

2009-07-19T23:15:00.001-07:00

A Special simmons inspired

custom job for Ollie

this is the ultimate in small wave

fun: 6' 4'' x 25 15/16'' wide

The colours of summer / royal tints

2009-07-19T01:31:00.000-07:00

Woody's rocket ship

2009-07-18T04:33:00.001-07:00

A cool speedster for fun & juicy days.

Extra volume at the mid point for increased

paddle speed, quad set up for control and drive

with a single concave running nose to tail!

Empire: Summer lovin' Bee stylin'

2009-07-06T23:43:00.000-07:00

Some handcrafted beauty for the summer:

tints, gloss, smoothlines and all in a

sub nine footer. We produce some amazing

craftspeople in the UK, no need to look

further a field, reduce your airmails

and enjoy the glide.

7' Quad-Fish x 20 1/2

2009-06-30T01:13:00.000-07:00

Planck: 7' 4'' eps/ epoxy glassed in single fin

2009-06-29T07:23:00.000-07:00

100% handshaped

Little and large

2009-06-19T02:51:00.001-07:00

Chris Ireland with Joss's new Twin fin. The board is 5'5" and chris is about 6'4". I thought for the sake of comedic prescence this was a perfect pairing.

board meeting

2009-06-14T10:26:00.000-07:00

apres-glide design discussions, rob lion & mark dickinson.

5' 5" rocket fish

2009-06-13T14:12:00.000-07:00

laminations

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past and future present

single fin gun

2009-06-02T16:14:00.000-07:00

for the day

6' 6'' Diamond-Bee Bonzer Five

2009-06-01T10:51:00.000-07:00

Bonzer 5 x 6' 6'' x 21 1/2'' x 15 3/4'' x 3''

I Love the hold and drive of these boards, great all rounders but really come in to there own on point breaks; they also help clear up the water flow on onshore days making for a smooth ride.

Bonzer five x chop 'n' slop

2009-05-25T07:51:00.000-07:00

6' 8'' x 18 5/8 eps/epoxy bonzer: North Sea Stations

Steve Crawford in-cut keel

2009-05-25T07:41:00.000-07:00

Steve Crawford/ north sea on a 6' 2'' 19 7/8 fluidconcept in-cut twin keel

Foam before form

2009-05-25T07:03:00.000-07:00

Foam waiting for hands

Spring: 6' 2'' Empire fish / 5' 8'' skimmer-keel

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current creation(s)

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foiled

current creation

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Clown Fish

2009-04-30T07:48:00.000-07:00

All for the fun of it...

6' 2'' x 22 3/4 x 3''

all the surface area

for slop-hopping but

foiled to handle the juice

- summer: here's hopeing for

a little bit of everything!

Empty Perfection

2009-04-13T02:37:00.001-07:00

Sometimes it's enough to ponder the openness...

quad in the barrel

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mark on board

Tom Cross - doing what he loves to do - boosting longboards - 9' 1'' x 22 3/8'' epoxy parabolic.

2009-04-06T03:54:00.000-07:00

Tom Cross is a very powerful yet stylish Longboarder who always like to go big, bigger, biggest!!!

Joss (magic) Wescombe - carbon parabolic - 5' 11'' x 18 - boat tripping

2009-04-06T03:19:00.000-07:00

Joss is a smooth stylish young surfer and he charges. he's been riding parabolics for the past couple of years and he loves 'em. And he's never broken one!!

Mark Gliding and hiding

2009-04-05T06:32:00.001-07:00

A windy day way up north and a fine way to get out of the breeze

Mark proving he ain't no one trick pony

2009-04-05T06:22:00.000-07:00

Believe it or not this is Mark a couple of hundred yds out at sea on a paddleboard

Just out of its element- 6'2" Performance quad

2009-03-19T09:09:00.000-07:00

Extension & Intimacy all for the love 6' x 21 3/4'' bat tail stubby

2009-03-19T01:52:00.000-07:00

Chris Ireland elevator drop riding 6'2" x 17'' nose x 19' 12'' wide x 14' 1/4'' tail Fish slice

2009-03-18T01:01:00.000-07:00

A fine and hefty drop at Thurso east

Fluid Concept In-cut Fish 6'2"

2009-03-18T00:47:00.001-07:00

Glassed in keel twin fins and a swirly monochrome resin tint. This board has suprised us all and worked well on juicy reefs and quiet beachbreaks alike

Parabolics

2009-03-10T10:27:00.000-07:00

Steve Crawford above and beyond 6' 2" x 18 1/2 quad at home

2009-03-09T01:22:00.000-07:00

Green Dream - Mark Dickinson - 5' 11'' x 20 volan twin keel (Galicia 2003)

2009-03-08T10:27:00.000-07:00

Evan Rogers 9' x 22 1/8'' thruster parabolic at home

2009-03-08T01:29:00.000-08:00

Steve Crawford cold water pig-dog (Scotland) - 6' 2'' x 18 5/8 quad

2009-03-06T01:12:00.000-08:00

Current Shaping Projects

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9' Epoxy EPS X 22 1/4 Parabolic GLASSED IN THRUSTERS PERFORMANCE LONGBOARD
9' 1 1/2'' X 22 5/8 Epoxy EPS Parabolic GLASSED IN THRUSTERS PERFORMANCE LONGBOARD
6' 1'' X 18 1/2 EPOXY EPS PARABOLIC GLASSED IN THRUSTERS SHORTBOARD
6' 1'' X 18 5/8 EPOXY EPS PARABOLIC GLASSED IN QUAD SHORTBOARD
6' X 20 3/4 POLYESTER QUAD FISH - FUTURE FINS
6' 8'' X 21 3/8 POLYESTER DIAMOND TAIL WIDOW MAKER GLASSED IN

Mark Dickinson Speed Dialer Northumberland - 6' 2'' x 19 1/2

2009-03-04T09:39:00.000-08:00

Mark Dickinson Twin Keel Carving Galicia - 6' 4'' x 20 1/4

2009-03-04T09:34:00.000-08:00