![]() Thanks mostly to social media and his live Instagram sessions, his shaping stints have gained plenty of appeal. ![]() “And even though I don’t consider myself a fatalist, or worship any particular all-knowing spiritual power, I truly do feel that I am coming full circle in a sense, that things are gelling and falling into place on some level. “There is definitely a sense of completion or fatalism about this next phase,” says Nev. He’s venturing back into the sweaty, dusty, little blue room where it all began he’s returning to the shaping bay to make handcrafted surfboards.Nev, who fought the purist’s tirade and captained surfboard duplication as a business model and spawned an industry tiered with ghost shapers, chuckles at the irony. ![]() Now Nev reckons its time to turn back the clock 25 years. All of it matched by a personal output that more than once has resulted in bleeding finger tips and total utter physical exhaustion. In reverse order, they include Nev House (award winning sustainable housing and commercial buildings for use in recovering or developing communities), FireWire (high performance eco-friendly epoxy surfboards) Julien Environmental Technology (JET, a plastics recycling company), the development of the APS3000 and AKU Shaper incorporating Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Computer Aided Machining (CAM), Beachlife (a franchise model for a chain of restaurants and wavepools, the world’s biggest surfboard (officially recognised by Guinness), a global distribution chain, multiple surf stores and one of the best surfboard riding teams in the biz. Nev has always had a particular zing about him. An altruistic enthusiasm that runs parallel with his various business incarnations. His corporate path has been well documented and deservedly. His ventures have been pivotal, templated, groundbreaking, revolutionary, award winning, expensive, risky and scary. Nev Hyman is back in the shaping bay with a new zest for shaping and an old planer in his hand.
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