Shaper Profile – Jeff Bushman
January 25, 2009 by NCS
Filed under Shaper Profiles
Name: Jeff Bushman
Home: Sunset Beach, Hawaii
Years Shaping: 29
Boards per week: 30
Specialty: Boards for the North Shore and quality waves around the world
Is your business better or worse since the Clark Foam shutdown?
Clark Foam closing dramatically changed the surfboard business forever. Its closing would not have had as much impact if we would have had some notice. Gordon Clark “sold out” the very industry that made him a very wealthy man, leaving everyone scrambling for foam. A couple of years down the road now we are all shaping higher quality foam and have experimented with a wide variety of materials. In the end, Clark’s closing help the industry evolve.
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The North Shore Week In Review
On the bulletin board at Foodland there are dozens of bad photocopies offering rooms for rent. The rates are not cheap, and the little tags that the rental owners have cut out on the bottoms are fluttering in the wind, untouched. Young surfers, transients and European travelers swarm around, staring blankly or scratching their dreads or tapping their lips with their index fingers and mumbling. In the past, owners wouldn’t even finish pinning up their ads before some well-timed tourist told them they’d take it.
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