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Are there any Aussie board manufacturers?

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Created by Mobydisc > 9 months ago, 7 Feb 2008
Wet Willy
TAS, 2317 posts
10 Feb 2008 12:58AM
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All right all right , I'll make you a damn board. Two thousand bucks and no guarantees...how's that sound??



My last one was a shipping pallet and a dozen or so plastic bottles, and it would 've WORKED with the right sail!!! You KNOW it would've!!



This was at Pulau Besar, Malaysia. Not the popular Pulau Besar; the other one...the one with religious shrines and mud beaches...okay, one thousand????? Seven hundred???

You first customer, I give you good price???

Slim Jim
SA, 202 posts
10 Feb 2008 9:42AM
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Try Pete Ross Designs - Ocean Eyre Australia - I got his WavePro54 last September - very happy with it - it's a kilo lighter than the board I replaced - Carbon/Kevlar/Corecell construction is super light - I've had jumps where I've thought I was at the top and a gust hits under the board and boosts me an extra metre or so. It's really maneuverable on the waveface, if that's what you're into, the Eyre Peninsula is a wild place and breeds a wild board! Manufacture/Delivery was quick - 2 weeks. If I got another one I'd ask for a conventional bolt/o-ring vent plug and a custom paint job.

Gestalt
QLD, 14994 posts
10 Feb 2008 10:23AM
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i like my nxs boards. (formerly manta sailboards)

they are built on the sunshine coast, perform as good as any others, are made from composite sandwich and vacuum bagged.

pete has been shaping sailboards longer than anyone else in oz. his experience cannot be understated.



Leech
WA, 1933 posts
11 Feb 2008 1:04PM
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JESUS said...

WAVE WANDS Ha ha thats funny are they made for faires cause faires use wands Seriously change the name to Avalon Boards that sounds heaps better


Nah, it's because decrepit looks like a wizard

Juice
WA, 280 posts
11 Feb 2008 7:10PM
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FilthyAmatuer said...

Bluejuice makes good custom boards, built tougher than most production boards IMO


Thankyou filthy

decrepit
WA, 12890 posts
12 Feb 2008 1:21AM
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Leech said...


Nah, it's because decrepit looks like a wizard


Well I wasn't going to mention that, but the very first sticker, said, "Wave Wands by Merlin of Avalon", but it got too may laughs, so I simplified it.

FilthyAmatuer
WA, 877 posts
12 Feb 2008 8:32AM
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JESUS said...

WAVE WANDS Ha ha thats funny are they made for faires cause faires use wands Seriously change the name to Avalon Boards that sounds heaps better


u mean fairies?

555
892 posts
12 Feb 2008 8:40AM
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FilthyAmatuer said...

JESUS said...

WAVE WANDS Ha ha thats funny are they made for faires cause faires use wands Seriously change the name to Avalon Boards that sounds heaps better


u mean fairies?


Are they kiteboards

swoosh
QLD, 1929 posts
12 Feb 2008 10:27AM
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Just out of interest, how aussie is JP Australia?


Mobydisc
NSW, 9029 posts
12 Feb 2008 1:42PM
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swoosh said...

Just out of interest, how aussie is JP Australia?






From my understanding JP Australia is owned by the same private company that owns Neil Pryde and Cabrina Kites, along with many other companies. Its a Hong Kong based company. JP Australia is about as Australian as the Great Wall of China.

Can someone explain how the Victorian Strapper company grew into the foreign owned JP Australia?



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