WHAT THE BUCK?!
/Terrible pun I know but please enjoy…. Sr Buck riding his RB-JMC name Caligula at his local.
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HI there Gigi!
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You know that old adage “right place right time”? Well Mariah Ernst seems to be the sensei of that!
Mariah had a mat off me last year named Jamu Jamu when she was living in Indo. Jamu Jamu is the mat that I had to perform plastic surgery on to get back on the water:
https://customsurfmats.com/blog/2019/12/21/ding-monkey
Anyway, I rotate the time that I send out emails for orders and what do you know, Mariah has moved to Hawaii and managed to get in quickest again! This time around, Mariah wanted something to cover all conditions having already having a Nouveau Racer. Mariah decided to go for a RB-JMC.
We discussed the 70/70, neg rocker, super free-breather option but Mariah opted to play it safe and go for a 200/70 free-breather. Don’t get me wrong though… This is still a very fast mat!
Mariah has named her mat Gigi after the man himself (GG). Gigi is built with yellow 200d deck, 70d bottom skin, has clear grip and a sexy black and purple large rail wrap logo. As planned, she will really open up the bottom end for Mariah. I’m also pretty confident that the top end will be pretty high too!
It’s good to be building mats right now. My surfing has stopped due to our lock down in the UK so focusing on building rides for others is a pretty rewarding second.
Have fun Mariah!
Cheers
G
G-Mat 184 - Jathy
/It’s always a pleasure to build a mat for someone I regularly surf with so I was quietly stoked to see this customer’s name pop up in my email to say “you have received a deposit from Mark Underwood”. “Mark Underwood?” I thought… “I know a Tom Underwood”… As nickname’s go, Tom is an interesting one. It’s because of this photo by Alex Williams of Tom (Mark) skating - He looked like Tom (Tom) Inouye it was said by local legend Steve Daniel.
Photo by Alex Williams
Tom is a really experienced surfer and something of an icon around these parts. He has travelled the World surfing in places such as Oz, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Indo, the Maldives and others as well as all over the British Isles. He worked for many years in the surf industry, building boards under the Natural Rhythm label as well as working with Nigel Semens at Ocean Magic Surfboards in Newquay. He started life surfing thrusters, then logs, then moved on to fish before SUP’s.
Photo by Alex Williams
Photo by Tom German
Photo by Liquid Destination
And finally… after all that… HALLELUJAH!!!!!
Tom riding his 5 Star General in South East Cornwall. Photo by Tim Ciasto.
I didn’t know Tom before he found mats but know alot of people who knew him and they all said the same thing… “I hear Tom Underwood has started riding mats. I’m guessing he’ll be amazing on them like he is on everything else”. I met up with Tom (who funnily enough lives within 10 miles of me) when he bought a 5 Star General from MatSurfers.com, after surfing a 70/70 Ute named Richard owned by our mutual friend Graham Bracegirdle, and we have become good friends.
And yes, I can confirm he has really quickly become a very good mat surfer!
Tom sharing a wave with me in South East Cornwall. Photo by Tim Ciasto.
So that’s Tom covered, let’s move on to his mat. Tom has ridden my RB-JMC and was keen to give this a go, having also ridden a 70/70 Rubber Bucky. Having already mastered 200/70 wheezers it was time to drop the restriction and up the pliability so a 70/70 RB-JMC was the go with super-free-breather venting.
I currently have some 70 denier blue material in. It’s 70d tafetta the same as the white and black I have but has a pretty open weave giveing a really pliable feel when welded. Tom was keen to go with a really light mat to compliment the rest of his quiver so we went with the blue throughout. I suplimented that with a light weight grip job. Add all that to the venting and this mat is gagging to go fast!
Tom has named this mat “Jathy” and Jathy is one of those mats you build and think “man… I’d like to keep this one.
Luckily I will be able to get a few waves on Jathy when the current craziness is over!
Cheers
G
A Bit of Self Care... Lisha
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It’s not long since I last built myself a mat but needs must. A little while ago I had my mat pulled from my hand on a solid day. I tried to keep hold with my right hand but it got yanked out, possibly breking my finger.
As always, I built Lisha over a weekend so nobody was missing out because of me doing this!
This also led to a strain of the muscles in my right fore arm which gets easily flared up even in small surf.
In short, I need to be alble to let go of my mat! My only options then were don’t surf, have a long swim after every wave or a leash. Given those thre then a leash seemed the best bet. I figured this was also a chance to try the RB-JMC design with a 200 denier deck.
Leashes are always a conundrum with mats. At low inflation they can interfere with things if not well managed and, more to the point, after years of riding without one they just feel like they get in the way. However, there is a need at times which then brings us to the other issue. The materieals, even a 200/70 construction, are lightweight. That’s great for performance but a challenge for attaching leashes. An eyelet will last a while but used over time or in heavy surf (just ask Henry Marfleet about G-Land) they will get pulled through.
So you need to do 2 things: Reinforce and spread the load.
When doing bungee fittings like this I weld a layer of 650 gram double coated nylon into the flange between the top and bottom skins. This gives a very robust strip of fabric across the nose. The nose of a mat is always fully inflated to it doesn’t make a huge difference to the pliability, altough anything on a mat is transferred aound the whole mat so it is noticable as reported by people who have two mats, one with and one without. The eyelets are fitted snuggly to grip the fabric well. That sounds obvious but loose eyelets will wear the fabric.
The next job is to spread the load. This is acheived by using bungee cord rather than rope. The elasticity of the cord soaks up a fair bit of the strain. Also, weaving the bungee through the eyelets and then attaching the leash to the middle loop causes the mat to conertina, spreading the load across the mat, rather than on a single point.
So on to the mat, as I said Lisha is a RB-JMC, super free-breather with negative rocker. The previous build have all been 70/70 which have been impressive in all conditions, including solid waves. It will be interesting to see what happens her then. Heavier decks reduce the overall pliability of mats (more hold, less speed) so in thoery this should have more top end.
Let’s see. I won’t be trying this in chunky surf for the time being as I need to let my arm recover but I’ll give it a crack in due course.
On the name, why Lisha? Well obviously, she has a leash but it insired me to name this mat after a sporting great of yesteryear (wierd phrase) Elisha Scott.
So there you go. Lets see how it works out and get well soon me!
Cheers
G
The RB-JMC Revolution Continues!
/Well, that’s the overboard title out of the way but here is the latest of this new model heading out of the workshop.
This mat named Ricky Powell has been built for Santa Cruz matter and head coach of the MacMurray surfmat team. Jason is highly experienced and, having tried out ASB’s RB-JMC was keen to give it a go himself.
As is standard with this design Ricky Powell has a negative rocker. This design feature creates tons of lift and therefore speed,
Ricky is also a super free-breather being very freely vented internally meaning the the mat can change shape really quickly. The really surprise with this design from everyone riding it is it’s range. A 70/70, free breather with negative rocker isn’t what you’d expect to be the go for solid or hollow waves but everyone riding them has reported the same…
They go great!
Team MacMurray
So Ricky is en route now and should be with Jason soon. Looking forward to hearing the report.
Cheers
G
G-Mat 180 - Beluga
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This is Beluga. She is a G-Mat Ute built for French mat surfer, Frank Fellous.
Frank hails from France but is something of a multi-national surfing phenomenon, travelling the globe in search of waves. Frank currently has Phileas (don’t worry… we have news on the way regarding Phileas) and is going to whisk her away on a trip to Israel.
As you can see from Beluga, Frank likes to keep things understated. Clean white mat with clean white lines. The observant ones amongst you will notice that the backdrop for these shots is white rather than my usual black background. The reason being, the attempted shots with a black background were so contrasted that it was really had not to blow out the white and lose the detail!
Speaking of detail, Beluga is a 200/70 Ute. She is a wheezer (restricted breather) with free rocker, so stable and predictable and responsive to all conditions. The grip is white Sikaflex EBT. Front corners are gripped which really is the best option for keeping hold of your mat.
Beluga has set off to France so should land very soon. S’AMUSER FRANK!
Cheers
G
A New Hope... The G-Mat Rubber Bucky - JMC
/Sooooo then. You will have seen my previous posts about the Rubber Bucky - JMC which I built for Jamie McClellen and then another for Andrew Stephen Buck. Well, I had to build myself one
My new mat named “hope” is very, very, light. 70/70 construction and a super free-breather with crescent ended I'-beams with 7 breather holes each. What that means is that the I-beams give the mat its shape but barely restrict the airflow at all. That, along with the very ligth material, squarer back corners, negative rocker and criminally light weight grip job means that this mat is really fast when ridden at very low inflation.
The other interesting thing about this design is that it responds well to decent waves so is a real all-rounder. Jamie has been riding his RB-JMC in heavy hollow waves and has been out-running hollow fast breaking waves. ASB describes his as “as good as a mat gets”.
ASB at Rincon. Photo: Beth O’Rourke
Jason MacMurray has ridden ASB’s and says “That thing is next level”. He went on to say “The way it carries through the flats and from behind the peak is crazy. Andrew was making waves that he had no business getting around the section on”.
Jamie says “As a gauge, I would say I’ve owned somewhere around 50 modern high performance surfmats in the last 15 years. I have about a dozen at the moment and 4-5 are in my working quiver being ridden regularly. The performance characteristics of the RB-JMC are highly unique. This mat seems to excel at both ends of the spectrum, from tiny windswell to 6-8ft tropical groundswell racetracks. It has an uncanny ability to track high in the pocket and naturally hold the line I want to take, whilst simultaneously breaking the tail free for unlimited acceleration. Honestly it’s the best fuckin mat I’ve ever ridden by a long shot and it’s basically replaced my entire quiver” Well that seems pretty definitive.
My own experiences have been really positive too. Hope has been ridden in waves between waist high and overhead and has been great! Noteably faster than other mats ridden on the same days. In partticular, the squared tail corners maximise that tail-slip magic with the mat finding its natural resistance free plane easily. I agree with the thoughts from Jamie, ASB and Jason though. Definitely NOT a beginners mat.
The RB-JMC has performed well in solid good shaped waves
This is definitely more than a Rubber Bucky with a tweak and I am stoked to add the RB-JMC to my quiver of models available to customers. This feels like a break-through mat that I am very, very happy with!
Cheers
G
The Green Hornet
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It’s always fun sending mats to the hotbed of modern matsurfing that is the area around Sant Barbara. That stretch of coast with seemingly endless pointbreaks and a community of open-minded and talented surfers is the perfect combo for these things called mats. One of said Santra Barbarans is Jim Griswold. Jim is a friend of Kerry Burns who recently had a mat from me. Jim was looking for a mat to handle fast breaking hollow waves. After a bit of chit-chat, we opted for a 200/70 Nouveau Racer… A Green one!
Given the type of waves Jim is riding we setteld on building The Green Hornet as a wheezer. This restricts the airflow which meansd that, even at low inflation, the mat will keep its shape so be more predictable and handle any bumps more easily.
The colour and been added via a “bucket dye” process where the completed mat is acid dyed in a bucket. This gives an interesting mottled effect do the Green Hornet looks a little like she’s been built out of some kind of radioactive marble!
The Green Hornet will be hitting the Central Cali coast soon so if you’re around that way, keep your eyes peeled for a streak of green.
Have fun Jim!
Cheers
G
All Aboard the Love Boat
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All aboard the Love Boat!
Romance is in the air, love is all around, etc, etc...
This mat has been built for Katelynn Pierce. Katelynn and Matt Pierce married earlier this year and Matt got in with an order saying that Katelynn was after a mat for their honeymoon in January. Perfect timing!
Katelynn is a fairly new mat rider and has only ridden Matt's which are WAY too big for her so job number one was to scale her mat to fit. The rest of the brief was a mat that will be versatile and dependable. With this in mind a Ute was the obvious choice.
The Love Boat is a 200/70 wheezer with free rocker. The grip is proper romantic (hence her name) in pigmented heart shaped patches and the logo is a festival of purple-pink glitter that the photo's don't do justice too. Oh...
And the Love Boat has a Heatered valve.
So, The Love Boat sets sail on Christmas Eve to SoCal and then on to Baja mid January for the Pierce's honeymoon trip.
Here's to you and a long and happy life together Kate and Matt!
Cheers
G
Ding Monkey!
/A little while back, I built a mat named Jamu Jamu for Mariah Ernst.
https://customsurfmats.com/blog/2019/6/30/jamu-jamu-something-orange-for-indo
Mariah lives for the most part in Indo and on a heavy day lost her mat which got dragged across the reef on the inside with terrible consequences. A huge tear on the bottom, a smaller tear elsewhere on the bottom and then a slit in the deck.
We really thought it was curtains for Jamu Jamu... Mariah sent her over anyway for me to take a look at.
Anyway, it took some planning and a lot of prep, as the damage to the bottom skin wasn't tidy cuts but jagged rips. However, I managed to weld panels of 70d white material into the inside of the mat to stitch her back together. The only job then was a small pinhole at the tail fixed with a Stormsure patch.
Jamu Jamu has been left fully inflated for 7 hours and no leaks so looks like job done. She might not be the prettiest she's ever been but the contours are true so hopefully all good. It's not ideal to have areas of double thickness material on the bottom but it's better than a huge hole!
Let's see how she goes. Mariah is off for a trip mid Jan so we will find out if our surgical intervention has worked.
Fingers crossed! Glad to see you and Jamu Jamu reunited Mariah!
Cheers
G
Let Them Hate Me... So Long as They Fear Me...
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That’s right. This mat is named Caligula. She’s the latest build for Andrew Stphen Buck.
Caligula came about through discussion about a mat I built for Jamie McClellan a little while back named Wheezy Jefferson.
ASB was interested by Jamie’s ride reports of levitationesque glide and 5th gear speed runs and the statemet “hands down the best mat I’ve ever ridden” and decided to give this modified Ruber Bucky (which I am calling the Rubber Bucky - JMC) a go.
Caligula has is a very light weight 70/70 mat with very light weave bottom skin and I-beams. She is also extremely well vented so is a complete free-breather and also has a neagative rocker to really maximise the speed. This will be further maximised by the squared back corners.Squarer corners release more easily so offer less hold but more speed.
I’d definitely say this design is for highly skilled mat surfers.
Caligula and ASB have had waves. After the first session word came through….
“Take a bow Graeme. Caligula is World Class”.
That’ll do.
Cheers
G
Clone to the Bone!
/Meet G-Mat 174 (AKA “Dolly”). She is a G-Mat Nouveau Racer, built for James Harvey, down in St Ives, West Cornwall, UK.
So why Dolly? Well, on a recent stay down West I hooked up with Jamo for a couple of very fun surfs. I was riding Unity, my Nouveau Racer on the first day in low tide, hollow, fast breaking waves. James had a crack on her and his feedback was that she was “…the best mat I’ve ridden”. We had been talking about building James a mat for some time and when he got in on ordering one this time around he immediately said “just copy your Nouveau Racer. I want the same dims, materials… everything!”
So there we go… Clone time. Clone to the Bone. Clone Alone. ET Clone Home. Clone Armatrading. Papa was a Rolling Clone. You get the gist... So Dolly is the perfect name for her as Dolly was the first cloned animal:
https://dolly.roslin.ed.ac.uk/facts/the-life-of-dolly/index.html
So what did I clone? A 200/70 Nouveau Racer, free rocker, wheezer with full length grip including the front corners. Not an exact clone as the grip is clear Sikaflex EBT for durability and the logo is smaller, closer to the tail and orange so perhaps more of a non-identical twin.
All those qualities make Dolly the perfect mat for Jamo. He primarily surfs Porthmeor which for those who don’t know it is a fast and heavy beach break so a mat that gets in quick and has a load of hold is just the ticket.
Enjoy Jamo!
Cheers
G
Colin's New Companion
/Meet TREAL, a modified Ute built for Colin McCrindle in Santa Barbara. Colin is a very evperienced mat rider who I’ve built a number of mats for over the years:
Colin has an eye for nature and a lust for finding out of the way quality wave around the Santa Barbara Central Cali coast. Just take a look at his Instagram account… Amazing!
https://www.instagram.com/colinmccrindle/
Give him a follow!
Anyway, TREAL is a 200/70 build and very well vented so the internal airflo is lomost completly unrestricted. The corners are squarer than normal too with a lightly stretched plan shape. Add to that the I-beams and bottom skin being made with a very light weave 70d navy taffeta and lighter TPU coating and we are looking at a mat that is going to be very fast.
TTREAL is on the way so Cali right now. The tracking says that wild fires are causing hold ups but HOPEFULLY she’ll be with colin before the weekend.
I’m excited to hear about their travels to quiet coves and reefs.
Have fun Colin!!!
Cheers
G
ANALOG
/ANAGLOG (yes the caps are deliberate) is a Rubber bucky built for Pete D’Ewart. Pete has had a few mats off me now, being the first person to pay for a mat off me way back. Pete knows all about mats having been a mat surfer for a looooooong time. He’s a big fan of the Rubber Bucky and has the skills to make this model really go.
ANAGLOG is a 200/70 free-breather with free-rocker. The 200d fabric is a fairly open weave, as is the navy 70d bottom skin so a light, fast mat. Pete is a fan of simple panels of grip (like on a 5 Star General). We’ve gone with clear EBT which give plenty of traction and the un pigmented sealant is more durable.
Pete lives in the Pacific North West so some long chilly walls will be just perfect for this mat.
Have fun Pete
Cheers
G
It's Opposite Day!
/It’s been a bit slowed down of late with some family stuff going on but I’m back with a mat for Jamie McClellan. This mat, which Jamie has named Wheezy Jefferson iis built by way of wages for Jamie’s work for MatSurfers.com.
Jamie is one of those mat riders that has a special talent. He’s put in the hard hours and surrendered himself to the craft and is, as a result, able to work with very lightweight and plable mats to manage the drift and tap in to that sought after quality of surfmats…
SPEED!
Weezy then is something of an ironic name because Weezy Jeffereson is the very opposite of being wheezy. This mat is a free-breather with I-beams with crescent cut ends and 5 breather holes. What that means is that the internal venting is completely unrestricted.
Weezy Jefferson is bult withnegative rocker, very light weave 70d bottom skin and I-beams and a slightly denser (but still very light) 70d deck. She also has slightly squarer than normal back corners wihich further relaease hold in the tail. The grip is also applied thinly as Jamie is more than able to top it up if needed.
All in all, this is an incredibly lightweight and pliable surfmat that will go like a greased turd off a hot shovel!
At the time of writing this post, Jamie and his family are hunkering down to ride our Hurricane Dorian so Weezy Jefferson is still sat in G-Mat Towers and will go out once things calm down. In the meantime, take care of yourself McClellans.
Cheers
G
Akamata!!!
/My good friend Ian Wraith AKA “Piskian” is an ex-pat Cornishman living in Japan. Ian lives on a beautiful, quiet (by Japanese standards) tropical island with his wife and two children. Ian is also a pretty great mat rider.
Anyway, Ian was lined up for a mat and we managed to line his mat up with his visit, and so it was that Akamata was born…
Akamata is a Nouveau Racer so designed with more solid waves in mind. There is a particular point break on the Island that is very reminiscent of a certain North Cornish point with long lefts of a shallow boulder bottom. The difference is, you have a huge paddle just to get to the inside! With this in mind, Ian took the pragmatic decision to break form and go for a bungee leash fitting.
This isn’t to always have a leash, just to have the option when those huge typhoon swells come in. These leash fittings have developed over time and the nose flange is now HEAVILY reinforced. The leash fits to the middle loop so the mat concertinas to absorb the energy and the bungee is elastic. All of this combines to give a fitting that can take on the job, although it is still best to hang on to your mat!
The deck it 200d nylon dyed Fire Red with an added experimental tattoo (that didn’t show well so that is why we experiment).
The bottom material is an open weave 70d that goes juuuuust lovely! Restricted breather to help Akamata to hold her shape in big surf and to handle surface chop at speed.
Ian has given her a go and reports:
Just rode Akamata in head-high double-up dry tubes. Flies! Like a magic carpet. Turns fast, glides like a beuton. Grip is perfect!
Stoked!
On that grip, it’s clear Sikaflex EBT but I have modified how I texture it and the feedback (including my own experience) is that it’s spot on!
I’m glad I’ve been able to build Ian a mat. It’s been a while and this is just right for what he will get over the winter.
It was great to get Ian over although it was a flying visit. We were lucky enough to get a couple of sessions in too. A shame it was so small as we have an intuition on party waves but still great fun surfing with Mark “Tom” Underwood one day and my son, Webbo, the next.
Here’s a few party waves from 2016 anyho…
Expanding the Quiver with Nancy
/Here we have a 200/70 G-Mat Rubber Bucky named Nancy, built for Sean Stansfield.
People may well remember Sean. For those who don’t have long memories, Sean was the first person to host Phileas when she set off on her travels:
https://customsurfmats.com/phileas/tag/Sean+Stansfield
That was a while ago now!
Sean has previously had another couple of mats from me named Gladys and Dorothy:
https://customsurfmats.com/blog/2015/5/11/just-what-the-dr-ordered
The last 2 mats were a 70/70 Ute and a 200/70 Chino Racer. When Sean dropped me his order form he was pretty clear on hat her wanted. A Rubber Bucky and a fast one!
No problemo!
We mulled over the options and decided on a stable deck so went for 200 denier material, but focusing on the speed, we thought about venting (free-breather) and rocker (negative).
The rest was simple. Sean likes his mats low key and monochrome so all black with white grip was where we wound up. SIkaflex EBT Grip 3/4 length with front corners…
Nancy IS going to be fast…
Personally, I love the Rubber Bucky. The glide and the ease for the tail to break free make this a a design that absolutely epitomises the essence of the modern surfmat. It also means that for the uninitiated, there is a drift that can initially be a little disconcerting (we all love dropping the tail though right?)
I really stoked to have been able to build another mat for Sean. He’s a connoisseur of the craft of riding these craft.
Enjoy mate!
Cheers
G
The Mat with No Name
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There was once a guy named Kerry. Kerry Burns to be exact.
Kerry once watched a movie named The Man with No Name and Kerry had a dream of a brown mat with white patterned grip to be something like that poncho... Something like it.
Of course, that grip needed to do the job of... erm... gripping! So we had to get creative. But with the deck looking so fancy, the big white expanse of the bottom looked like a big white bottom. It needed filling (please do know that these buns are accidental).
That's where Bryn came in.
Bryn Dampney is a super talented artist. Graphic Designer by profession, kneeboard shaper by passion and all-round waterman in the ocean. And I mean ALL round. We approached Bryn with the general theme - "It needs to look kinda Mexican?"
Bryn did the rest.... Amazing!!!
So Kerry is about to hook up with his Mat With No Name. A 200/70 wheezy Ubercat that is going to fly on those points around SB. If you're over there, keep an eye out for them!
Been a LOT of fun this one. Thanks to Kerry for the opportunity and thanks to Bryn for his genius.
Cheers
G
PS For those who score custom mats, Bryn is available to add art to them.
Jamu Jamu - Something Orange for Indo!
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Mariah Ernst is a name some might recognise. Mariah is a New York surfer, journalist and writer who tells me that she hates the cold. In fact, she hates the cold so much that she has fled the US Eastern Seaboard for Indonesia. Even then, she is so hostile to the cold that you can see her wearing rubber in the tropical paradise!
Maybe on the rubber… Hard to tell if she was pulling my leg on that one.
In any case, Mariah came with a clear idea in mind of what she wanted. “A mat that will hold well in steep Indo waves and in a colour that I can see easily when it’s washing around on the inside at Ulu’s.”
Roger that..
After weighing up the options, 2 tone orange was the go. With Mariah’s local being somewhat heavy, a Nouveau racer seemed the obvious choice. Positive elastic rocker to help the mat get off the bottom and respond rail to rail but nice and stable with restricted breathing. Mariah opted to name her new ride “Jamu Jamu” after her favourite local turmeric based beverage.
At the time of writing, Mariah is getting over some gnarly illness. On the mend and what better tonic than a new mat!
Jamu Jam sets sail in the morning so should be with Mariah by the end of the week.
Bon voyage!!!
Cheers
G
PS. Read more about Mariah here:
https://whalebonemag.com/ice-cream-headaches-writer-mariah-ernst/
Unexpected Addition to the Family!
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Say hello to Inkblot.
This is an unexpected addition to the family.
The customer who originally ordered this mat was all good to go and then unfortunately ran in to some unforeseen expenses which meant they we unable to go forward. I had already dyed this deck and cut the panels.
As it turned out, the customer was very close to my size and the mat is a 70/70 free-breathing Rubber Bucky and I have been desperate to get one in my quiver but just haven’t had the free-time to build one so I made the decision to have her.
Don’t worry… I squeezed in an extra day of work on the Bank Holiday weekend to get her done so hasn’t slowed anything down production wise!
Anyway, with Inkblot and my Nouveau Racer, Unity I now pretty much have the perfect 2 mat quiver and am sorted for the next couple of years at least. I don’t tend to hang on to unused mats so I’m putting my blue and yellow mat named Michael Stripe up for sale for anyone who wants her - £145 GBP + shipping.
She’s was built in September 2016 and is in very good condition (the result of washing with 50 dunks after every session). I’ll top the grip up before she goes out.
Michael Stripe is an Ubercat (in case you hadn’t guessed) but being a 70/70 free-breather is much more of an all-rounder and goes well in pretty much all conditions. She is best suited to an experienced mat surfer or, if you are less experienced, more air and patience to get used to her floppiness will see you adjust!
Cheers, G.