VANE Surfboards - Sean Nettleton

Vic Logger Profile:

Sean Nettleton
Head Shaper/Glasser for VANE surfboards
Stockists - Zaks Surfshop, Melbourne. The Brown Shed, Ocean Grove.
Details - Brownshed@Gmail.com
Price - $1650

Sean is critical, critical of himself, of his shaping and of his glassing. He doesnt rush because he wants to get it right.

if you have ever been to "The Brown Shed", most afternoons, Lee from Cruise Control Surfboards will come in talking about how the old shapes/shapers were back in the 60s, Dave Boyd from Imperial surfboards will also be there swearing, defining and critiquing what ever is in the shaping bay. Ideas, accusations, Dale Velzy quotes, templates and dimesions all get thrown around into a "The Melting Pot". For most people all the ideas, information, experiences get wrapped up and put away in the back of their mind, but for Sean those ideas and informal sessions are professional development that stay at the forefront of his mind. He is the best surfboard glasser in Victoria and is sought after by shapers because they know his work is impeccable.

Sean now starts his shaping career as of now. Zaks Surfshop in Melbourne has been selling VANE surfboards (logs) like hotcakes. the call has been "we need more", "we need more".

Just like Masterchef has done to the way we eat/like/critique and look at food when we go out. This generation inturn, is now smartening up and being more critical about surfboards and realising they only want the finest.

Out of the shaping bay, he keeps to himself. he lives a quiet lifestyle that revolves around spending time with his lady and finding solid waves to trial his board designs. In the shaping bay he is a professional that has stepped out of the shadows of other head shapers in Vicco to stand with the big boys.

if you have ever watched him surf. he follows his own path. he never forces anything and he believes just like a handsaw and its teeth sawing through a piece of wood, its not about forcing the tool to perform its about making the tool perform for you. people will be scrapping out the back for the sets while sean is swinging his board into a noseride on a waist high wave that is breaking better on the inside. He doesnt work harder, he works smarter.

i suggest your next log,HP,Egg,Mid-length,Noserider is from this guy before its too late.

CmAc.