Our friends, the Dewalts, sent us some pictures of their Austin Paipos in Baja. They promised us some surfing pics soon.
Author Archives: Troy
Feb
08
2010
New Noserider #1 Gets Its First Coat
The first of the new noseriders gets its first layer of glass. Each noserider will have a huge custom balsa or paulownia stringer and only carry old school pigment work. It will be topped or bottomed off with an Austin custom pivot fin with special color bead. We still don’t have a name for her [...]
Jan
17
2010
Austin Photo Shoot
Nick Webb of Crealities did a photo shoot for the new Austin Surfboard’s webpage. If the photos are any indication on how it is going to turn out it will be AWESOME!
Jan
10
2010
Yet to be Named Noserider (update)
I snapped a couple of pics of Austin’s new noserider. He roughed it out on Friday and started the glue up for the glassed on fin. The stringer is actually 2 1/4 wide paulownia and the fin will match the stringer. The fin will be all paulownia with no other wood mixed in. Austin said [...]
Jan
08
2010
Yet to be Named New Noserider
Squirreled away in the corner of Austin’s shaping room covered with 2 inches of foam dust Austin has hid his newest creation until now. He has been designing it for almost 4 months now. The only thing that he has told me is that it is based on the older Hansen 50/50s. It will [...]
Dec
30
2009
What Am I?
We are building this item for a customer but you will never guess what it’s for! The first correct guess gets an Austin t-shirt and stickers.
hint – It has no fins and is glass with 3 layers top and bottom with 8 oz volan cloth. It is made from 1 1/2 blanks glued up together [...]
