TRI FINS ARE DANGEROUS
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Handshaped by Brian Fredrickson.
Thought I would share this with my Design forum bros before I blog it.
Sunset Surfboards was founded by Ed Wright in the late 60's. Brian was Ed's protege and took over Sunset Surf Shop and the surfboard label in the 80's. After spending years working at Surf Ride in Solana Beach Brian now works for Rip Curl. I got him to shape us some stock boards for the shop. These are fresh delivered last night.
Pretty stoked because my shop is loosely based on the old Sunset shop that was down the street from Swamis.
The boards are glassed at Moonlight Glassing which is the original Sunset glassing crew.
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lefty
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STOCKED!!! 
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lefty
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Handshaped by Brian Fredrickson.
Thought I would share this with my Design forum bros before I blog it.
Sunset Surfboards was founded by Ed Wright in the late 60's. Brian was Ed's protege and took over Sunset Surf Shop and the surfboard label in the 80's. After spending years working at Surf Ride in Solana Beach Brian now works for Rip Curl. I got him to shape us some stock boards for the shop. These are fresh delivered last night.
Pretty stoked because my shop is loosely based on the old Sunset shop that was down the street from Swamis.
The boards are glassed at Moonlight Glassing which is the original Sunset glassing crew.
dude you are my DFB - Design Forum Bro
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retodd
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outlines are 
any more details or pics ? 
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TRI FINS ARE DANGEROUS
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The classic 70's bird logo reprinted by Factory 101.
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SurfZombie
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Has he made any singles for you guys?
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TRI FINS ARE DANGEROUS
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Brian calls this The New Oscillator which was a Sunset model in the 70's.
They have the new trendy 5 box option.
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TRI FINS ARE DANGEROUS
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centralcoastlurker
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Quote:
Handshaped by Brian Fredrickson.
Thought I would share this with my Design forum bros before I blog it.
Sunset Surfboards was founded by Ed Wright in the late 60's. Brian was Ed's protege and took over Sunset Surf Shop and the surfboard label in the 80's. After spending years working at Surf Ride in Solana Beach Brian now works for Rip Curl. I got him to shape us some stock boards for the shop. These are fresh delivered last night.
Pretty stoked because my shop is loosely based on the old Sunset shop that was down the street from Swamis.
The boards are glassed at Moonlight Glassing which is the original Sunset glassing crew.
I used to love that shop when I was a grom! My first board was a Sunset! 
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In the abundance of water, the fool is thirsty...Rat Race!
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TRI FINS ARE DANGEROUS
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6'0" x 20" x 2 1/2"
6'2" 20 1/4" x 2 1/2"
6'4" x 21 1/4' x 2 9/16"
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retodd
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clean and simple , i like !!!
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averagejoe
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those are beauts - thanks for sharing tfad
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JJR
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BF made me a clean pintail for a trip to peurto...board went off! Thanks BF 
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santacruzin
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heres my sunset given to me by a friend.
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I like the gloves. They are needed in the aquatic deeds of perversion that he partakes in.
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john4surf
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That is so cool hear Brian is still involved in the community! Sweet boards!
In the early 80s almost every grom that surfed in North SD County hung at the original Sunset shop across the street from the Lumberyard. The traveling pros almost always stopped by and signed shirts and posters for the kids and Brian had a Sunset surf club. Kids got Sunset surf t-shirts, invitesand a small discount to all the special events (sales), movie nights, etc.
My son got his first 'job' under the radar at Sunset cleaning the shaping rooms, toilets, getting duct taped to the telephone pole, etc., etc. The sales crew were all surfers Brian helped and seemed to get the desired response of a loyal sales staff who could walk the walk. My son introduced one of the salesmen to his college student sister after a few years working there after school and summers. He married my daughter and we have two great grandkids about 11 years later.
I am really stoked to see Brian's boards, especially in a core surf shop that really follows the old school tradition of walking the walk, knowing the talk and a passion for the sport that brings us together on this Internet thing called the erBB
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santacruzin
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Brian calls this The New Oscillator which was a Sunset model in the 70's.
They have the new trendy 5 box option.
man that looks nice. I want.
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I like the gloves. They are needed in the aquatic deeds of perversion that he partakes in.
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bordsmnj
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ooooh, that 6'0  just my size,too.
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etmo
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6'0" x 20" x 2 1/2"
6'2" 20 1/4" x 2 1/2"
6'4" x 21 1/4' x 2 9/16"
Rocker shot of the 6'4" pretty please??
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TRI FINS ARE DANGEROUS
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Havoc
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damn you've got some choice boards in your shop!
design forum bro out!
Havoc
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rogerbeal
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My older brother got some nice custom kneeboards from Sunset. I remeber driving out to the middle of F-ing nowhere to pick one up, was that Moonlight ?... 
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skip
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Those were made by the Kneemaster-Buzz Blodgett!
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gaucho
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I have a 6'6" Sunset from '74-'75 or so that I ride regularly. Really fun stick!
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donniedarko
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First board I ever had was a sunset. Thruster in 1984.
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face the mirror...
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bobsurf
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I thought I was supposed to hate Sunset because the dude still owes pinliner some money. 
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lefty
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Some of the TEAM guys from the early 80s
Gus Williams
Robbie Vignato
Jeff Baldwin
Brian Syzmanski
Jon Shmaus
Matt Coleman
Todd Eaton
Brad Benter
Gary Taylor
Ricky Lasch
many others...
Shapers
Ed Wright
Ken Bradshaw
Ned McMahon
Bill Shrosbee
Sid Madden
Brian Fredricksen
Didn't Merrick work for Ed way back when?
Many of us worked there too and it was a very cool place to lurk... I mean work.
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npsp
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Some of the TEAM guys from the early 80s
Gus Williams
Robbie Vignato
Jeff Baldwin
Brian Syzmanski
Jon Shmaus
Matt Coleman
Todd Eaton
Brad Benter
Gary Taylor
Ricky Lasch
many others...
Shapers
Ed Wright
Ken Bradshaw
Ned McMahon
Bill Shrosbee
Sid Madden
Brian Fredricksen
Didn't Merrick work for Ed way back when?
Many of us worked there too and it was a very cool place to lurk... I mean work.
Add Mark Kintz to the list.
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TRI FINS ARE DANGEROUS
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I thought I was supposed to hate Sunset because the dude still owes pinliner some money.
No, that's me. 
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Greg Griffin
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Croteau was there in 1973-4
Great french toast down the street.
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Greg Griffin
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Oh Well
I guess thats too much for this design forum ....
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pinliner
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Croteau was there in 1973-4
Great french toast down the street.
Kenny the sander and I were coming out of the liquor store in the middle of town Mike was heading to the shop in his big old jacked up truck when he saw us. He put his foot into it drove up on the sidewalk right at us burning rubber and laughing his ass off. When we got back to the shop he just grinned and said "Woke you guys up didn't I"?
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Greg Griffin
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I was hoping you would respond.
Mike was one of the most amazing shapers in many ways.
Too bad there is not much written about him.
Thanks for the story.
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bordsmnj
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stopped by there yesterday. lots of really nice boards in there! very knowledgeble staff, too. wish i could afford more than t-shirts,lol.Thankyou to the nice lady again for the surfboard tour. La Especial Norte is as good as i remembered too but thats a different subject,lol.
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TRI FINS ARE DANGEROUS
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stopped by there yesterday. lots of really nice boards in there! very knowledgeble staff, too. wish i could afford more than t-shirts,lol.Thankyou to the nice lady again for the surfboard tour. La Especial Norte is as good as i remembered too but thats a different subject,lol.
Thanks for stopping by. Summer is our new shop manager. She is super cool. I grew up surfing with her brothers. She is a 3rd generation surfer and ran a surf shop in Costa Rica for 5 years. I'm really stoked she is working for us and I can finally take a surf break here and there.
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TRI FINS ARE DANGEROUS
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Here are the fins that come with these boards. I originally was going to include the basic plastic glass-flex but decided that wasn't good enough. So now you get all 5 fins in that fancy performance core material. It cost me more but hey, you guys are worth it.
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HarveyCapri
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I was over at Surfy Surfy yesterday getting a wetsuit repaired and specifically checked these boards out in person. They are sweet. JP said they are specially designed for North County SD waves, but to me look like they could excel for the Nicaragua trip I also have planned. I am a lightweight, so I may go custom on this, but love this design.
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SpiralVee
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Some of the TEAM guys from the early 80s
Gus Williams
Robbie Vignato
Jeff Baldwin
Brian Syzmanski
Jon Shmaus
Matt Coleman
Todd Eaton
Brad Benter
Gary Taylor
Ricky Lasch
many others...
Shapers
Ed Wright
Ken Bradshaw
Ned McMahon
Bill Shrosbee
Sid Madden
Brian Fredricksen
Didn't Merrick work for Ed way back when?
Many of us worked there too and it was a very cool place to lurk... I mean work.
Name Dropper
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bobsurf
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stopped by there yesterday. lots of really nice boards in there! very knowledgeble staff, too. wish i could afford more than t-shirts,lol.Thankyou to the nice lady again for the surfboard tour. La Especial Norte is as good as i remembered too but thats a different subject,lol.
Thanks for stopping by. Summer is our new shop manager. She is super cool. I grew up surfing with her brothers. She is a 3rd generation surfer and ran a surf shop in Costa Rica for 5 years. I'm really stoked she is working for us and I can finally take a surf break here and there.
I was happy to pay retail for my leash the other day. She's better looking than you.
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TRI FINS ARE DANGEROUS
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No wonder sales are so good on Surfy Summer Sunday (my one day off of the week).
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