New Model. The "HK" Hex Key. Bit of history. The Alfred Hitchcock is one of my best selling groveler-small wave designs I designed during my stint as shaper/designer for Windigo Surfboards. They have gone on trying to replicate what I designed for them. Cheap, poorly designed imitations missing all the key design cues that made them work. Enough about that embarrassment. That board was designed in '2011. Sold a lot of them and continues to sell well. I've gone back to developing my own brand (BSD)Some asked for a more performance version of the Hitchcock. This got me into developing a new model. Here it is.The "HK" or the Hex Key. Based off the original Hitchcock template, narrowed all the way around.5'6" x 17.0" x 20.5" x 17.5" 2.37" Blank made by myself and Hand-shaped.The Hitchcock is a small wave beast. Works great on mushy slopey waves, yet has trouble with steeper waves with the wider nose. So I increased the rocker in both the nose and tail,and foiled the nose and tail thinner. Taking some design cues from other more parallel boards but not as drastically straight, I kept it a little curvier. Curvy means turney. Keeping with the geometric theme, I left the bottom lower rail beveled (Ben Aipa influence) and left nose and tail kinda beveled as well. The board also has some rail channels to stiffen rail. (Love Handles).Besides the obvious outline change, this board will feature my "Torsion Drive" Stringer system. Based on Torsional flex, the split stringer ends directly under the riders rear foot. This enables it to flex from rail to rail. Not only does this produce forward drive, it also allows the stringerless last bit of the tail to flex during turns.More info. here http://www.barrysnyderdesigns.com/torsional-propulsion--torsion-drive-stringers.html The bottom contours are similar to the Hitchcock. shallow centre concave to double with a fair amount of Vee to allow the wider tail to go on rail. (turning). Board also has a Bi-plane to Tri-plane hull design added in there as well. Pretty complex bottom.This featured board is a Poly blank, yet will be glassed with Epoxy. Not to sure about fin set-up yet. I really want to make it a Tri-fin design and minimize fin boxes to allow tail to fully flex. We'll see. Board will be available in many different options. This is the prototype. <br /><br /><br /><br />
i don't like it. too many edges upon which i can cut myself. shaper - ever had plastic surgery on your face repeatedly from board impacts?
Nice looking board. Mitchell's description of his creation got me interested in these things. Good luck with the design. BTW - When you use the preview function before posting, the line breaks (/br) don't seem to carry through to the final post and boom you get a wall o' text. I've had better success if I copy the text, preview, delete text, then paste what you copied before. YMMV
Mr. BSnyder, just looked through your gallery and was quite impressed. Those agave boards look sick. If I'm ever in CA w/ money I'm going to purchase an agave fish. Also, while it's secondary, I dig the artwork on your boards. Chuckled at the day I dropped acid one. Good stuff.
wow - really impressive stuff. Never seen the split stringer like that. At first I thought it ended/tapered like christensen ocean racer. wondering how you can do that but happy just seeing these boards. Bonzers and asyms look fun too. Great work amigo.
very clean...love the attention to detail. However, with all due respect, board and tail seem a bit wide for a thruster.
