Austin is offering, for a limited time, free shipping to anywhere in the contiguous 48 states. It must be shipped to a terminal or a place of business but 95 % of all cities have a shipping terminal within minutes of their residence. This include all boxing, handling, and shipping. A nice deal for the holidays!
Are you one of those new “GO GREEN” or go home surfers? If so why in the world would you order any surfboard other than one made from Paulownia wood? Granted Poly boards are not that great for the environment (even though we do try and limit our carbon footprint where we can) but epoxy [...]
Austin goes through phases where he pushes the envelopes in each area of a surfboard build. His current area of focus is working on is in the different stringer arrangements. A few months ago it was custom fins and fin art. This was one of the wood and resin fins that he and Joe created. [...]
The Austin designed Bonzer type fins are not for the squeamish. They occasionally do bite back. The picture is of an Austin Surfboards family member that got pitched and then met the business end of his Figjam coming back up from the bar. Nice gash and a few stitches but no real damage thank goodness.
I have always loved this picture. I ran across it on another blog and saved it because I thought it showed the pure joy of surfing. Even through the water wings and goggles you can see the joy in her face. Don’t we all wish we could feel that pure joy again!
What do you get when cross a redneck with a surfer? See the picture above! No airbrush paint. All the work is done with pigment. Why? Because we can!
Many moons ago we got a call from one of the Cambell brothers. If you don’t know that name in the surfing community you must have been living under a rock. The Campbell brothers’ were the inventors of the Bonzer fin set up. They were calling us to nicely ask us to quit using the [...]
This summer was full of experimentation from the Alaia’s we have been building, to the paipos, and even the hand planes. Each trip to the beach lead to a new revelation in watercraft design. With each trip we began to realize that we way underestimated the abilities of the Hawaiians on their wooden blanks. We [...]
Austin has been experimenting with different stringer set ups. He bought a few unstringered blanks and thought he might try some unusual designs that is not normally seen. He has been talking about how when he shapes them they have different flex characteristics than the normal typical stringered board. We can’t wait to see these [...]
It was put on the back burner for a while but Austin is continuing work on his balsa and paulonia paipo. You can see the final glue up in this picture. It has a balsa body with Paulonia strips capping the nose and tail. The Paulonia will protect the lighter balsa from denting. Plans include [...]
