The Pam PamxMax | 5'8" FEATURES Model:Pam Pam x Max Size: 5'8" x 19 1/2 x 2 1/2 x 30L Ref. PAMPAM58Handshaped byMaxStewart Built inin Brookfield, Sydney, Australia Construction: Pe (Polyurethane Foam +Epoxy resin) Finish:Sanded Fin system:Bonzer 5FIN> Fin
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FEATURESModel:Pam Pam x Max Size: 5’8″ x 19 1/2 x 2 1/2 x 30L Ref. PAMPAM58 Handshaped byMaxStewart Built inin Brookfield, Sydney, Australia Construction: Pe (Polyurethane Foam +Epoxy resin) Finish:Sanded Fin system:Bonzer 5FIN > Fin Not Included!! Recommended fins:Al Merrick fins|FCS II Split Keel |
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This design is the future signature design for Eye Symmetry Surfboards. It has three main features:
Everything in this board is a bit pushed up in terms of volume. The round nose The four concaves entry to V from nose to tailThe Pam Pam design is all about complexity; a perfect balance between looks, design and performance. Let’s Push Everything Up | It is kind of a normal board cut down a few inches. With a double bump, the wide point is a biT forward on the board and we’ve got sort of a straight rail. If we want some speed, why have round rails? So, this will bring more speed between the feet. This will offer the surfer to go down the line a bit forward, back, turn off the hip… Round Nose | This is the second big feature of the Pam Pam. We’ve got a lo of volume up forward so we are chopping part of the board off to reduce the arch of turn and help with paddling. You’ll have all the weight under your chest when you are paddling into a wave. This will start to pick up the tail of the board and you will put force on the front of the board. The board, instead of bogging, lifts up and chips you in.
With the outline forward, the volume is also pushed forward. With the deck line of the surfboard getting down low, you can see that the stringer raises up underyour chest. So, whatis MaxStewart doing here and for what?He’spushing the volume into the center of the board as well, maintaining the rail volume pretty low sothat you, as a surfer,feel a really good paddle powerwhen riding it. You dont lose any performance either.
Max blends the rail from the tail to the nose really consistently so it is not really noticeable by the eye; you cant really see it. However, you can really feel it when paddling the board.
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This is a potencial and future signature model of Eye Symmetry and itencompasses all that Max is and embodies. It has been designed andbuild for small waves performance. Itis aperfect choice when you encounter waves to over head waves. You will enjoy a pretty performance, beingable to move the board around a lot thanks to its round tail. The board is also a bonzer (5FIN), so allows an alternative surfing. Get creative!
Bottom concave | This concaveis not crazy. It has a very subtle four concave entry that can be really felt with your hands but are barely noticeable to the eye due to the extreme and delicate craftsmanship behind this design.
The four entry concave breaks up the water. In one hand, if you got one single concave, it can stick on turns and stay like that sometimes. On the other hand, a V entry can make the board more loose. So the Pam Pam’s design isin between those two. This is something that Max does on mosthis surfboards designs.
Single Double Concave |A reallysubtle single with double concave follow the four entry concave, so this board is gonna be for small waves. Max doesn’t one a slow one so weve got a single concave that lifts the board above the water and makes it go fast in small waves. Under the front foot, the belly of the board, just transfer pressure if you want speed. Following this action, the board lifts and responses, gives you speed.
Double to a bit of V | The back of the board finished with a double concave to a bit of V.Max wants the back of the board really loose. The V is the opposite of a concave, so it makes the board really easy to maneuver and turn.
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Its design is a scalable one up to a full operating gun in a 80 / 90 range; that is something that Max will start working on this winter 2022.
As we go bigger on this design, the concave reduces and in turns into a V. Its all about slowing the board down, making it easy to turn. You dont want it to go supper fast on a 34ft wave, bouncing like crazy When scaling up, we stretch it out, put more rocker, more tail and nose lifts. At the end, we take the concave out and put the V in.Thisis the main idea when it comes to start scaling the Pam Pam up this coming Winter 2022.
The flat deck and double rail will increase the volume in the back. The pro surferTom Carroll, whohas tested Eye Symmetry surfboards, likes this type of deck on his bigger waves guns,and that is a featurethat Maxto incorporate and work on a really big wave board.
This alternative bonzer model will be transformed to perform awesomely with high waves to 34ft waves.We cannot wait to see this one live!
Let’s go see the construction process step by step:
Blank |Choosing the blank, the foam is key for a high quality surfboard and this one has a winner. Max always starts with a regular, really high quality blank fromSurfblanks Australia. This translates into avery strong, very light, and witha really tight cell structure PU.
Resin | The resin used for Eye Symmetry Surfboards is the epoxy resin.
Stringer | Red cedar stringer, always a great choice for consistency in quality and looks.
Color Work |It’sdone with tints in the glass. Pigments are added into the tint to obtain the different colors. The boards are glassed with color, finished with white marble spray and added a final clear epoxy resin.
Glass Work | Max is an absolute expert on glassing. These are double glassed. But no, the surfboards are not heavy. Why? Let’s go for it:
>2oz.glass in the bottom, obviously it is the half of the regular 4oz. glass that it is used to glass a board with
> After, Max tights pop and glasses the 4 oz. wavy patches that you can see on the top of the board.The function of the patches will help you pull the weight back because without them, the board would feel a bit nose heavy. So, in order to offset that and to stopit from interfering with surfing,Max pulls the weight to the back of the board. This helps to balance the surfboard.
>Another2oz. glass goes on the deck, spray the white marble finish and then clear 2oz glass again.
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Leash Loop |The final touch comes withthe epoxy leash loop. Why an epoxy loop? Becasue Max doesn’t liketo drill the boardnor add a piece of plastic to it. This epoxy loop won’t break; it is supper strong. We recommend to put the tail pad correctly so your foot does not go over it. Be safe!
Marta chose the color palette and mixed them for this batch of 6 boards.
Surfer Skills | Medium to advanced surfer. This design was built for people who can surf.So, if you know your way around surfing, consider yourself lucky to be able to taste this complex yet satisfying balanced flavor.
It would go good with smaller surf, specially as a thruster or even a quad. It would suit someone who is not as good as a surfer and looks to surf beach breaks on a daily surf. That is what they have been built for.
Recommended Fins | This bonzer model does go well in both, thurster or quad.Max has the quad in mind morebut colleagues and people have been riding them in thruster, like Tom Carroll. We would recommend, just because of the V on the board is already quite loose, to use a fin that is not small. So medium or large with a bit of rake would be advisable, meaning, choose a finprotruding back more other than more upright.
It also depends of who the surfer is, how the waves are Al Merrick finsare a good fit; theyre performer a little bit up right. It could work for someone who wants to surf top to bottom, and less drivy.
FCS II Split Keelfor quad disposition would be the one of a hell option as well.
Pro-Tip: Stick away from super up right fins overall.
Eye Symmetry Surfboardsfounder, artist and expert glasser,Max Stewart.
31 year-old Australian MaxStewart is the artist, expert glasser, designerand the man behind Eye Symmetry Surfboards.
This young man from Manly, Sydney has been doing surfboards since the young age of 18 years old. Eye Symmetry Surfboards is already 10 yearsold.The first board for Pukas was buildin 2016 and that is when it all started and, as Max says, “we are still dancing!.”
When asked about why build surfboards, Max has it very clear. He has always like to build staff with his own hands and was into surfing so, it was natural for him toblend the two things together.
Before building boards he was actually fixing and repairing shoes! Something he loved to do.But as he got tired of it, he really wantedto build surfboards. He started doing a couple of boards inhis back yard and soon enough he thought that it was time to start taking this “job” thing seriously. He started and kept knocking on different doors untilhe had his first bigopportunity when he arrived to Hayden Shapes doors in Sydney. He chased down the manage of that and then got the jobgoing from zero to the best in the factory in only three years. That was the moment he decided thathe was hittinghis head against the roof. It was time to do his own thing and fly solo.
On Max’s words, “that started because I was bread into it in Hayden Shapes.” Around ten years ago, the marketwas moving into epoxy; that it was when epoxy started to kick. No-one wanted to touch it before that. ForMax is epoxy becausehe knows it very well; he isused to it and considers its better material, more strong, more white, and, the boards last longer.
Even though it is a superior material, it is hard to manufacture and more painful to work with. Its easy to have problems with glassing so shapers usually prefer to stay away from it. It is a lot of monitoring; needs a lot of patience and a very specific skills to work with it. It is very hard to find people that are willing to be patience and have the specific skill.This is the reasonwhy Max set up his own factory andtheydo everything in house: The Eye Symmetry Surfboards house.
Maxputshis skills, hard work,and intuition into a product that he desires people to enjoy. Thats what keeps driving him.
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