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| sunrise color board in the sunset |
Dimensions: 6'2 x 18 1/2 x 2 1/4
[Completed in August 2014]
Model Vixen
The story: just one month after Ian got his first Mere-Made (board#042), his house was broken into and the robbers took the board along with a couple of Bing. Although it is the first stolen board in Mere-Made history, I wished there was no such "first"… But Ian is not the kind of guy to let the fate dictates his life. Quickly he put another order to replace board #042.
One day he called me to go surf and said: " I have a surprise for you in my car…." Because he just came back from a surf trip in Costa Rica I thought he brought me back a little something… Until I realized he was handing me the original board I was supposed to copy the first time around… When he saw my disappointed face he realized the confusion and we both had a good laugh about that. Yes, I guess, for a shaper it is a gift to have the board you are supposed to reproduce :) !!!
The shape: same shape as board #042. I used the same template. But this time I had the original board from Bill Johnson in hand for the volume distribution/rocker. The additional special instructions from Ian was to make it a tiny bit wider but loosing some foam under the front foot.
The artwork: Ian submitted his idea of a reverse rail overlap on the bottom with a baby blue-to-white fade through a very fancy sketch he sent me online. I added a little grey fading on the tip of the tail which gave the cool sunrise color effect. The glassing was done at Global Glassing Oceanside (as usual).
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| Concave: checked! |
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| Mere-Made on top of the original |
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| Ian's vision of the artwork. pretty cool sketch! |
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| tens of birds above our head during the sunset photoshoot |
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