This is Fos from Heroin. First time seeing this thread (as I remember anyway.) Thanks so much all, blown away by all the reposts and comments about our egg family of boards. Glad you're enjoying em.
Here's a bit of background on where it came from, and I was actually planning on doin a week of reposting Egg boards and bits about the history of them on Instagram.
So, Shimizu was the one who first hit me up about doing an egg shaped board in 2016. So, I used an H Street Mike Carrol board as the original inspiration. Art of Skateboarding says that board is from 1991, sounds about right. It's 8.5 but that's right in the middle and it tapers a lot to above the trucks, as do all the Eggs. The Wheelbase on this first one was tiny too, a lot of wheelbases in teh 90's seemed much shorter than nowadays. A few of the riders liked the Shimizu Egg from Fall 2016, but It wasn't until I redesigned it and made it a lot more functional with the Big Egg that I think it started to gain some popularity. That was Spring 2018 when the Big Egg first came out. I took the original shape and blew the whole thing up and put it onto a more realistic Wheelbase for todays market.
So, I really didn't know if I'd like it personally. I've always liked popsicles with really straight rails and rounded out noses and tails. Once I rode the Egg though I ended up skating five in a row and it was my new favorite shape, it seemed super functional right away and whenever I order boards for me to ride personally i always ask for em on the Big Egg shape.
It's 9.125 in the widest point, and more like 8.625 above the trucks, so skates more like an 8.5 or 8.625. I use Titanium Indy 159's with mine.
So after this one was such a hit with the team riders and shops, I did more and have tried to have at least one or two eggs in every season since. The 10" egg was a huge hit among a lot of my friends and lots of people hit me up about that, so it's the latest to have a reprint. (Which quickly sold out, but we have more coming this month)
The 9.4 shape was popular (Anatomy of an Egg and Eggxorcist) I made an 8.9 version too with the Fried Egg.
For Holiday (Dropping Oct if any of us are left alive by then) We have 2 new ones, the Space Egg in 9.4 with Razortop construction (It's all I want to skate, that was a drunken Chet Childress calling me up saying we had to do that construction)
We're also doing a smaller 8.7 one called the soft egg, which is a modified version of the original smaller sized egg that we made.
Whew, lots of typing. Anyway, couple more points if anyone is still reading. Primitive were cool enough to let me draw that first Franky Villani Bat board, and so I aid it was cool if they wanted to use the Big Egg shape (Cos he was buying and riding those boards) and seeing as it's all at the same factory (Bareback) then I was cool about them using that shape.
Had lots of pro's from other brands hitting me up about shapes and buying em from our online store, which is really cool and flattering.
Thanks all.