![]() “People come in and have a preconceived idea about what board will work,” says Craig Gordon of Brave New World Surf Shop in Point Pleasant, New Jersey. Your magic 6′ 1″ may have worked really well because of its foil, entry rocker or thickness, not simply because it was 73 inches long. What’s working what’s not? Take an honest look at your surfing and think about what you’d like to improve with the acquisition of your new board.Ī lot of shops display their boards in two inch increments and this makes it much easier to choose the proper tool. You just have to know how.īefore you think about the type of board you want, think about the type of board you have. ![]() ![]() And when you consider all the variables involved in getting the right custom board (shape, glassing, color, sticker placement, etc.) it might be time to take another look at those stock boards. But with the advent of extremely close-tolerance molded polyurethane blanks and computer-aided design and manufacturing, surfing’s craftsmen are now able to crank out refined boards so close to the shaper’s original vision as to be indistinguishable from a custom job. In pre-PC days, only parents and kooks bought boards off the rack-the core always went custom.
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