Surfboard Shaping Is Back, Dude
The Art of Shaping Survives, In New Forms, After Some Difficulties
I first stood up on a surfboard not long after I learned to walk. But until recently, I’d never shaped my own surfboard, personally molding it and altering its design, the way so many surfers do. I was oblivious to the painstaking craftsmanship that goes into a board. If I grew an inch, I got a board an inch bigger. All I knew was if a board rode well, I liked it.
And so I had never learned the story of how the art of surfboard shaping had recovered from a …
