Surfboard shaping doesn’t have to be a messy process, here’s a little clip on the one of the cleanest shaping processes I’ve seen.
This video also follows Jason Frost as he walks through each of the surfboard shaping stages. To keep it simple, there are really are four main stages to shaping:
Luke Young finishing some quite intricate channels on one of his models; not an easy thing to do!
So when we get asked why surfboards are so expensive, if made properly by hand, it’s quite a labour intensive process. You can now see the difference between a proper hand made surfboards, over the cheaper mass factory produce Chinese pop-outs.
As a good customer of ours and one of the UK’s top shaper’s once said: “Good boards aren’t cheap, and cheap boards aren’t good!” I stand by that rule.
That was Luke Young, who told me that!
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