Background to Stikup

Background
I started surfing back in the early seventies and my passion for surfing as a way of life
to this day hasn't diminished.

Travelling to most corners of the globe over the years I collected boards on the way.
In the early years when you just had enough dosh to buy a new stick there was never enough
for a full suit! wearing a 3mm shortie, boots held on with insulation tape, marigolds for gloves,
a thick coating of deep heat all over and a half bottle of the cheapest whisky between two surf
mates was the order most winter days when it was going off at Crantock.

Since then every board I've brought I've kept, because it holds memories of certain days or trips
and the way that the design of surfboards have evolved over the years.
Being a designer and not happy with my boards hidden away so they don't get dinged, I regard boards
as works of art and needed them around when I wasn't by the coast.

Trying to find a display system for my boards so I could display them around my house was impossible,
anything aesthetically pleasing just didn't exist.

I set about designing one for myself, with functionality and the aesthetics of equal importance.
A display system that could accommodate all board sizes and styles as well as horizontal, vertical
or even on the ceiling, it should be a piece of art just like all prized sticks.

Jon Taylor