Archive for November 2009

Tim Stamps:The Look of the 21st century shaper

Nov 22nd, 2009 | By Solo Surfer | Category: Featured

Tim Stamps is the true new breed of surfboard builder who uses computer technology and machines to create the various shapes found on the surfboard market today. Some board builders take issue with it as shaping, but to Tim who has a high level of computer and designing skills from his background at college, it’s [...]



Larry Allison: One of the Last American Professional Fin makers

Nov 21st, 2009 | By Solo Surfer | Category: Spotlight

In the early seventies, a young surfer named Larry Allison took a job jig sawing fins behind San Pedro Surf and sport. Little would he know, almost  forty years later, he would be one of the last truly American fin manufactures, working out of the same shop with the same people. [...]



Roger Hinds: The thinking man’s shaper

Nov 9th, 2009 | By Solo Surfer | Category: Spotlight

There are hundreds of surfers in the world who build surfboards with varying degree of quality. Roger Hinds is a surfboard builder of the old school. The school where you learned how to do every aspect of building a board and could put it all together to create a functional work of art. [...]