The original Future Primitive 12 foot balsa pintail

This board was a milestone or breakthrough board in terms of design. Back in 1997, we contacted Paul Joske of Valla surfboards ( who is as far as we know the first person to use Paulownia wood in a surfboard, thanks Paul) after reading about a 12 foot foam board he had built. Paul had built the board to dimensions he obtained from Skip Frye, but was of the opinion that the Frye board ( and his own version of it) was much too flat in the rocker ( it had 5 inches of rocker) and too wide in the tail, he described as very poor in steep waves and hard to turn. Needless to say we dialled up the rocker, and produced a more curvaceous planshape, with our first ever circular arc extreme pintailand displacement tail, based on the notion that an ideal planshape for a longboard consists of an underwater foil cross section. The board was incredibly successful, and is a veteran of many hundreds of sessions.Length: 12 feetWidth: 23 inchesThickness: 2.25 inchesConstruction: Multi directional balsa lamination:Materials: balsa/epoxy/glass/graphite/marine ply