Who makes the best small wave quads in Australia?

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Terminal started the topic in Sunday, 10 Mar 2024 at 4:47pm

Who are the masters? I need a new one and would like opinions from any fellow quad riders out there.

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Terminal Sunday, 10 Mar 2024 at 4:50pm
Terminal wrote:

Who are the masters? I need a new one and would like opinions from any fellow quad riders out there.

Handshapers, not offshore factory boards.

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quadzilla Monday, 11 Mar 2024 at 7:43pm

No one and everyone but not McCoy unless you add the 4th and 5th plugs yourself.

Also, nothing wrong with riding boards made in Asia, they are designed in Hawaii, Australia,,California and Europe and they work.

Want a custom from a local shaper get an Outer Island or a Simon Jones, really good prices for those shapers.

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lostdoggy Monday, 11 Mar 2024 at 8:07pm

Probably not hand shaped, but Oz made, hand finished

Muz Bourton
Gary McNeill

Handshaped
Jono Cole
Bryan Bates
DVS

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lostdoggy Monday, 11 Mar 2024 at 8:10pm

These are interesting

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GuySmiley Monday, 11 Mar 2024 at 8:48pm

MR added to lostdoggy’s list

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Terminal Monday, 11 Mar 2024 at 9:06pm
lostdoggy wrote:

Probably not hand shaped, but Oz made, hand finished

Muz Bourton
Gary McNeill

Handshaped
Jono Cole
Bryan Bates
DVS

Bryan Bates has a really nice one on his site, really nice

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Terminal Monday, 11 Mar 2024 at 9:09pm
quadzilla wrote:

No one and everyone but not McCoy unless you add the 4th and 5th plugs yourself.

Also, nothing wrong with riding boards made in Asia, they are designed in Hawaii, Australia,,California and Europe and they work.

Want a custom from a local shaper get an Outer Island or a Simon Jones, really good prices for those shapers.

Not sure if trolling with pricing for Jones and OE, but yeah Mitchell's quads are nice. Nothing against offshore boards other than they're normally super light and I prefer heavy PU boards (probably the only person on the face of the Earth that prefers relatively heavy shortboards).

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quadzilla Tuesday, 12 Mar 2024 at 8:34am
Terminal wrote:
quadzilla wrote:

No one and everyone but not McCoy unless you add the 4th and 5th plugs yourself.

Also, nothing wrong with riding boards made in Asia, they are designed in Hawaii, Australia,,California and Europe and they work.

Want a custom from a local shaper get an Outer Island or a Simon Jones, really good prices for those shapers.

Not sure if trolling with pricing for Jones and OE, but yeah Mitchell's quads are nice. Nothing against offshore boards other than they're normally super light and I prefer heavy PU boards (probably the only person on the face of the Earth that prefers relatively heavy shortboards).

Guilty, Outers/Jones are both overpriced by so much its not funny.The prices are GOOD for the shapers but not for the customers.

Pipedream/Bourton work really well and realistically priced and can have extra glass to add weight.Murray has a LOT of shapes to choose from.FatBullet>>>Missiles or Pingers,all go like the clappers.

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Fliplid Tuesday, 12 Mar 2024 at 9:06am

Terminal, I've been surfing one of these for a couple of years now and it's one of the best boards I've ever surfed in anything from waist high to just overhead, it's been my go to board ever since I got it. Five plugs in mine and the quad set up is skatey and fast but gets on a rail easily without bogging down while the tri fin setup settles it down a bit when the waves get bigger.

Mike does the full custom hand shape and you'll get what you ask for.

https://www.psillakissurfboards.com.au/products/quad-fish

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lostdoggy Tuesday, 12 Mar 2024 at 10:33am

That Mike P fish interesting to me in the photos, the fcs board has the quad boxes halfway between the rail box and centre box and the futures board got it closer to the centre.
I prefer the position of the orange board personally but the other probably nice and skatey in small waves

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Fliplid Tuesday, 12 Mar 2024 at 2:09pm

Not sure about that difference lostdoggy but one thing is that the front fins are back further, more like a thruster setup, compared to other quads I have and the overall quad set is a tighter cluster as well which might explain why it gets a bit twitchy in bigger waves but switching it out to a thruster fixes that. Could probably use a bigger rear set of quad fins also but haven't tried that. Overall though it's a brilliant board

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dastasha Saturday, 3 Aug 2024 at 10:01am

+1 for Muz you can't go wrong with Murray https://www.bourtonshapes.com/
I would tell him where you're using it.
What you want the board to do.
Leave the rest to him.
He likes a chat.