Donald Brink pushing the boundaries of surfboard shaping
Hailing from Cape Town South Africa, Donald now resides in San Clemente California with his wife and has been shaping boards since 2005 , when Revolver was founded, consolidating a namesake and re-branding the water sleds. BRINK is ever growing and developing. Inspired by life's sequence of events. People say its old school or retro stuff I am building. Perhaps, but I like to think of it as just building fun seeking Practical Ocean rides. Donaldbrink.blogspot is a platform on which to share new creations. Boards, paintings, fashion, design, pictures ... we will see.
I first met Donald at the Sacred Craft Show in San Diego a few months back and I was immediately drawn to his booth's Simplistic and as he puts it rustic style. That, and of course we share the same motherland and a really cool dude. We stayed in touch from the Show and I finally ended up making my way down to his San Clemente workshop this past Saturday and apart from being a awesome guy. Donald is a super talented designer and shaper. I say designer because he designs and makes furniture on top of shaping boards. He has some amazing forward thinking asymmetrical shapes that we are very interested in working to create a sick shape for a future Handboard. In addition, Donald has agreed to do a couple prototypes for a little mini full wooden Handplane something we are all very excited to see take shape. We cannot wait to get it all going. Check out some of the Gnarly shapes Donald has been working on of late. In our humble opinion, they are sick
Below is a collection of ,what we think are some the best images from the recent prototyping session. Also you can see the entire selection of images from that session HERE They are under Donald Brink images... duhh. We are hoping to continue working with Donald to bring some more exciting shapes and Handboards to you
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