CUSTOM Surfboard Journey at TSBW

I'm dave i'm one of the in-house designers and shapers at slab, we work closely with The Surfboard Warehouse and their Australian made custom board program and being from the gold coast i'm inspired by incredible waves and the sun-rich surf culture I have here been making boards for this kind of conditions for a long time and any surfer will tell you the best board is a custom one made for you.
So once you've been online and you've designed your board up and push submit it'll head through the internet portals and it gets to me and i'll sit on the design software called shape 3d and i'll design the board up to match those specs that you've given us, after that i'll send the
file off to our machine and the machine does a really really good job of roughing out the blank getting rid of all the excess foam and getting the shape very close to how i've designed it so after we're done with the machine i come into the shaping bay and shape your boards down to spec we start with the deck with various pads hard and soft pads and
take all the machine lines out and get it all nice and smooth [Music] the decks a contoured surface so the soft block helps finish that nicely and match the contours back to original design [Music] so working on the bottom with a nice hard block just planing the stringer down to keep it flush with the foam with a small hand plane and then we get a soft block out my step is just soft block over the rails get the rails nice and rounded again and then i'll get some gauze, shaping gauze which is a flexible sandpaper will make the rails nice and round taking care to have a good sharp edge in the tail the last step on the board before we're finished is to find gauze just take all the scratches out and then we'll mark the fins in the right spot to match your shape. These fin marks are really important because then at the factory when the fins are routed in they know exactly where the fins go then measure your board with callipers and make sure it meets spec and sign it up with the right information hopefully your name and the your serial number
And then the board's off to the factory to get glassed
When the board gets to the factory one of the
first jobs it gets is the stringer gets taped up so the wood stays nice and clean and then we spray the blank white. The reason we spray the blank white is to protect it from uv and to help it last stay white longer and help it last longer for you after that spray white has been done and the paint's gone dry we then get a router and some templates and we route out the fin plug holes for where the fins are going to be set, this is where the craftsman uses those fin marks that i've placed on the board to be in the right spot we take special attention that the fins have the right angle on them and they're set and resin once that's all done the fibreglassing process starts to take place and we use polyester resin and fiberglass and we coat the board with a single layer on the bottom of 4oz or 6oz depending on the specs you've ordered and two layers on the deck at this stage the deck might have carbon fiber placed on it as well and this laminating process. We squeeze as much resin out of the board as possible to keep it nice and light and keep it strong yet we'll leave enough resin there and enough glass on the deck that it's tough and durable [Music] and once it's sanded up wet rubbed really nice and finished off
Just for you at some stage maybe you've got a spray in between if you order the colour but then the board goes through gets Qc'd and goes out and gets put in a nice box and it gets head off to you