luv2surf
Grom
Reged: 02/05/05
Posts: 7
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Is there a name behind these boards? Anyone know where they are from and their quality/reputation?
thanks a lot for any help.
Rob
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TRI FINS ARE DANGEROUS
Tom Curren status
Reged: 01/10/02
Posts: 12997
Loc: Pavement, CA USA
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Owned by a man who has never surfed, heard there was money to be made in surfing but incapable of individual or original ideas and thoughts. Those boards knock offs made in Thailand and China. It's the race to the bottom and the dark days of surfing.
edit-the airbrush designs are ripoffs of stuff my Dad has done. 
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dk
Rabbitt Bartholomew status
Reged: 09/14/03
Posts: 9546
Loc: Leucadia
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i seen a few of them in the water. 1 ridden by a guy who normally supports a local log shaper...i bet he doesnt even kno 
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LeeD
Kelly Slater status
Reged: 06/26/03
Posts: 8203
Loc: Berkeley,CA
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Just wondering....
Are you sure it's Thailand, where Cobra makes Tuffs.
Could you possibly mean China, like ChiCom China?
Just wondering, they are sometimes at my local shop, but I'd rather look at Bics. 
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therightcoast
Grom
Reged: 02/22/05
Posts: 9
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i think theres like, two diff seven surfboard companies. I dunno, but i see 7surfboards, and seven surfboards. One is deff some chinese crap  . . i dunno about the other one though, maybe thats just them with different advertising or something.
that would suck to be the guy actually making good surfboards, getting your bussiness wasted by somebody stealing your name.
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dk
Rabbitt Bartholomew status
Reged: 09/14/03
Posts: 9546
Loc: Leucadia
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  @ leed.
Atleast your honest man 
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LeeD
Kelly Slater status
Reged: 06/26/03
Posts: 8203
Loc: Berkeley,CA
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Honest to a fault, straight shooter, always got me in trouble!
One of the 7's is made up in Washington, or Northern Oregon, been for about 10 years, but one guy shaping, glassing, sanding, and finishing. He makes cool boards, lots of crazy colors, really advanced shapes and bottoms, very low key.
The other is the conglomerate of like more than 5 different names that they bought or used, made in Asia (I skirted that one), decent shapes, horrid materials and OK workmanship.
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denis85
Legend (inyourownmind)
Reged: 02/21/03
Posts: 273
Loc: Les Sables d'Olonne, France
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And this phenomenon is quite global... In Europe we get a lot of Asian boards from plastic up to epoxy. Some of them look and ride just as good as "regular" boards, some of them create a big interest (like surftechs)and sometimes cost quite twice as much as "regular" boards (like S cores).
But the fact is that a lot of surfers keep riding "regular" boards... Why?
Is it because of the materials?
Is it because of the accessibilty you get with your local shaper?
I'm surely interested by materials like tuflite, but for me surfing is something I like to do with a board that has the soul of a shaper in it...Someone who has the talent, the patience and the dedication to provide us with a piece of art that requires a little bit more than a machine or a mold...
Don't let your local shapers disappear, you'll regret it! 
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Big Brother
Nep status
Reged: 07/14/03
Posts: 557
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made popular by tom curran? more eyeballs than fred hollows? mmmmmmm.......B-O-kay
Edited by Big Brother (03/03/05 06:40 AM)
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hmmm
Rabbitt Bartholomew status
Reged: 01/13/02
Posts: 9789
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the problem with the chinese is that they will go and copy everything and anything that is produced including dvds and surfboards. they might be able to copy the shape of a merrick but the glassing will never be up to par. i wouldn't be surprised if there are plagirised surftechs out there haha.
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luv2surf
Grom
Reged: 02/05/05
Posts: 7
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Thanks for the responses.
I bought one other day. I'd been trying to find a used modern fish/thruster design for my 200lbs for a while with no luck at all. Then I broke my main board in half. Next day I saw this "Seven" board (6'4" x 20 1/2 x 2.5) exactly the shape I wanted and bought it even though I was a little skeptical on who the maker was and the shop owner claimed he didn't know either. Anyways, I like the way it rides and put in a few good sessions with it already. Hopefully it doesn't just fall apart after a month of riding it
Rob
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Solo
Legend (inyourownmind)
Reged: 12/27/02
Posts: 438
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GSI Seven Surfboards
7surfboards.com
Seven Surfboards - Oregon
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SlicedFeet
Michael Peterson status
Reged: 12/16/04
Posts: 2553
Loc: Swarm Diego
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Funny you just brought this up. Brother in Law called asking me about surfboards and how he was going to buy one. Well, being the good relative that I am I never called him back to talk to him about it and thought that his friends in Solana and Carlsbad will help him out. Well he brings the thing over, all stoked just like a grom on Christmas, and what does he pull out. It's a fu(king Seven. Never heard or seen one before that, but some guy in Solana Beach (On Cedros I believe?) sold him on it and claimed how good of a deal it was for $350. I just kept silent, didn't want to ruin his buzz of his first new surfboard.
I first look at the bottom and feel the rails, OK. But then lightly test the finish with my fingers. I fell silent. My fingers almost went through the deck and then had to hide the bottom due to the indentations I put on the bottom rails.
This guy just learned to surf a few months ago and is going to destroy this board in a month. Now I’m pissed at the guy who sold it to him. He knew he was a kook. Only in it for the sale! Fu(king Assssehole.
Funniest part. On the bottom near the tail, there was a Made In China sticker on it. Next time I’m around Solana, I’m going to have a “talk” with that guy who sold it to him. That’s BS.
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hmmm
Rabbitt Bartholomew status
Reged: 01/13/02
Posts: 9789
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beginners and surftechs go together like ebony and ivory
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Cool waves and shaka-to-ya-frada-cause-youre-nothing-but-a-bradda
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LeeD
Kelly Slater status
Reged: 06/26/03
Posts: 8203
Loc: Berkeley,CA
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Er....
Your expertise is in question when you can't delineate the difference between a Thai made Epoxy Styro core board from a ChiCom poly poly hand made board not made in a mold.
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LeeD
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geosurf
Nep status
Reged: 09/02/03
Posts: 612
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Here's the real deal, beautiful boards
http://forum.surfermag.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB4&Number=449660
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foamdust
Nep status
Reged: 07/06/02
Posts: 850
Loc: Honolulu, Hawaii
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I know I'm probably gonna cop a lot of flak for this reply, but what the heck. I saw a guy out at Haleiwa last month riding an "Island Classics" board, which are now produced in China, and was acutally amazed. The waves were in the 1 1/2 times overhead range and the board looked like it rode quite good. He made some fast sections and pulled off a nice rebound in the toilet bowl. I was looking at the same imported boards at HIC and the shapes looked more than decent to me, the rails felt good, nice foils and rocker. Funny though how Island Classics has evolved from being Eric Arakawa's original label in under which surfers like Michael and Derek Ho and Ronnie Burns among others rode for to a generic no name shaper label.
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Kalani..
Michael Peterson status
Reged: 11/28/03
Posts: 2103
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I ordered a board from a well known fish shaper, a mid length fish that I thought would be fun to try. What I got seemed a little weird, it wasn't really close to what I ordered, no writing on the stringer to indicate that it was a custom board, the template was very similar to a lot of the generic winged swallow funboards out there except for the addition of 2 extra fcs plugs, the board hit me in the shin and it popped the lap and it rode like crap. The topper on it was the stringer. Some of you know what I mean, it was plywood. Aussie blank, same as the ones you see on a lot chinese imports. That model was no longer on their website soon after...
To this day I wonder about that one...
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TRI FINS ARE DANGEROUS
Tom Curren status
Reged: 01/10/02
Posts: 12997
Loc: Pavement, CA USA
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It's also "funny" how a lot of labels from back in the day reappear as Asian imported boards. Mostly via a certain retail shop owner in northeast. It's a real laugh riot.
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