Paul Heussenstamm in full glide on an eight foot pintail I shaped him in the seventies at the brotherhood... this is an iphone shot i took of the magazine article that I just came across cleaning out my workspace... The pages are loose, so I do not know the exact date?, but they were stashed in a surfing mag from nov.1976( volume twelve, number five) so must be close around there?... TIM BERNARDY took the shots and wrote the article... if I remember right, this was the first published article of puerto encondido, but never mentions it in text... Lenny Foster on another pintail I shaped in that era (1976-79)... these boards were usually between seven six and eight six, nose and tail blocks from scraps of fin panel that the glass on fin was made from, also the leash mound when that started to happen, yellow tint with full gloss and polish, double and triple touching resin pinlines Russell would lay down, shit was awesome... we were so committed to making what we called "Cadillacs" at the time... a full sixties vibe was alive and well at the brotherhood in that period... love these pictures and this part of my shaping life...
another shot of LENNY FOSTER laying it over on a wave of consequence...
all via Stussy
original photos Tim Bernardy
These also grace the walls of Russell Surfboards shop on the Balboa Peninsula to this day.
