Infinity Surfboards began business in 1970 where Steve Boehne and his wife Barrie open their first shop in an old gas station in Huntington Beach. Since then, their shaping business has grown considerably with over 30,000 Infinity surfboards shaped and the shaping crew currently features Steve and Dan Boehne, Larry Cobb, and Ryan Engle. As Infinity’s founder and main shaper, Steve has shown all their shapers his techniques and views on shaping water craft. Steve began surfing in 1959 and years later moved towards making surfboards. He had shaped a hundred boards as a back yard shaper when he began work at Gordie Surfboards. Steve learned a lot from Gordie (known for fancy stringers & tail blocks in his classic longboards) who helped Steve develop his philosophy and shaping style. He currently still shapes over 250 surfboards every year. He and his wife have also had great success as tandem surfers winning six USA Championships, six Makaha International meets, two World Titles, and other tandem contests.

Infinity Surfboard Models

Cluster - Three fin design featuring V bottom and the biggest finds on the rail and with clustered fins.
Secret Weapon - Cluster model that works great in beach breaks. Short and thick with shortboard maneuvering.
Rad NoseRider - This model is a fast trimming and levitating nose rider.
Competitor - High performance longboard designed for competition. Light 4 oz glass, thin, responsive, and a double concave bottom.
Classic - 60/40 raisl provides a natural feeling ride along with smooth and flowing turns.
Stylemaster - Classic design with improved performance features.
Rich Chew Models - Competition model but with more floatation.
Floater - Designed for big or matured guys to give you enough float.

Infinity Shortboards

The Blurr
Geoff Brack Pro Model
The Automatic
The Silverback
5F
Ariifa Gun
Rawson Guns
Authentic Retros
Summer of ‘83

Wave Weapons, based in Oceanside, CA is a Christian surfboard company run by Louis David Lytle, a relatively well known big wave charger. He surfed and learned the art of shaping from Dick Brewer in Hawaii. During the 70’s and 80’s, Lytle learned a lot about board design by surfing Hawaii’s powerful waves at places like Pipeline and Sunset Beach. He took what he learned from Dick Brewer and made his own modifications based on his own surfing experiences.

Lytle has also shown his appreciation to our military by offering a blowout sale on brand new surfboards with proceeds going to their military surfing project. Their project was a success. 180 new surfboards were sold and nine U.S. Marines were given brand new surfboards. Military personnel always get a 50% discount on all in-stock surfboards. What a great offer!
Wave Weapons offers a variety of surfboards including the following shapes:

Modern/Hybrid Fishes
Twin Fin Fishes
Standard Shortboards
Guns
Mini Tankers
Longboards

Feugo Surfboards, based in Redondo Beach, CA features surfboards shaped by Roland Chocarro and Jennifer Holbrook. Chocarro has been shaping surfboards in Southern California for more than 20 years and besides shaping under the Feugo label, owns Secret Spot Surf Shop and the Surfworks factory. His Surfworks factory has worked with such labels as Stewart, Rhyn Noll, Harbour, and Irwin. He has shaped every type of board from fishes to kite boards and his philosophy is to provide a high quality surfboard at a reasonable price.

Jennifer Holbrook, who hails from Florida, has been developing her shaping skills while working at Chocarro’s Surfworks factory. She credits her surf instructing experience with influencing her shaping philosophy and has specialized in shaping boards specifically for women.

Feugo Surfboards offers the following custom surfboards & shapes:

Firestate Longboards - Offering both traditional and mini malibu longboards which feature a classic style nose  for hanging ten and a progressive last half of the board for high performance surfing.

Inferno Fun/Hybrid - These boards offer a full nose and wide outline for easy paddling and wave catching ability. The pointier nose offers better maneuvering than mini tankers with similar paddling ability.

Pyrotechnic Shortboard - These shortboards offering the paddling similar to that of a funboard with extra thickness and a wider than normal outline provides surfers with easy wave entry.

Hand Shaped Customs - Feugo also offers guns, fishes, and every other shape in between.

Mandala Custom Shapes which is based in San Francisco, CA, specializes in vintage, retro, and alternative surfboards. Shaper Manuel Caro offers a variety of fish with a vast number of fin templates and combinations. Caro believes that having a custom surfboard shaped is a great way to develop a personal connection between surfer and shaper. Custom orders usually involve finding out the surfer’s personal information like height, weight, surfing experiences, waves surfed, etc. which helps in shaping a board most suited for that particular surfer.

All custom surfboard glassing is done by Moonlight Glassing in San Marcos for the best quality lamination and boards are normally glassed 6oz+6oz deck, 6oz bottom. Other glassing options are available depending on preference and or weight. Several models offered by Mandala Custom Shapes include:

Double-wing Quad Fish
Round Pin Quad
Bat-tail Quad

Marine-Ply Twin Keel
Marine-Ply Canard Quad
Marine-Ply AK2

Single fins
Mandala Five

Caro has been influenced by Rich Pavel, Thomas Campbell, and Alex Knopps to name a few.

In the 1960’s, Dewey Weber influenced both surfboard design and the surfing lifestyle that still has influence to this day. Dewey quickly garnered the reputation of being one of surfing’s top businessmen and soon he was recognized as the largest and most innovative surfboard manufacturer in the entire surfing industry. During that span, Weber contributed many surfboard design and manufacturing innovations and opened up surfing’s reach by introducing skateboard and apparel line to his surfboard business.

Currently, Dewey Weber is focused on making top notch custom surfboards which are all hand made in the U.S. All Dewey Weber surfboards are manufactured in Southern California and glassing is done by Kaysen Surf Designs. Being that the company has always embraced change and innovation, it is no surprise that the company utilizes a state of the art shaping machine and has experimented with epoxy resin over the past few years.

The company specializes in high quality retro and traditional longboard shapes and Dewey Weber’s San Clemente Surf Shop provides surfers with a wide variety of quality stock boards in their showroom. If you aren’t able to find exactly what you’re looking for, the Weber shaping team can design a board to your exact specifications.

Fletcher Chouinard Design’s roots began in Ventura, California where Yvon Chouinard opened his blacksmith shop in the 1960’s. The Chouinard Equipment Company built some of the finest mountaineering gear and the shop’s location allowed everyone to surf and make equipment better.

30 years later, Yvon and Fletcher opened Fletcher Chouinard Designs with the goal of producing better surfboards. They were intent on finding the best technologies and composite materials in hopes of creating a stronger and lighter surfboard. Their openness to change and embracing new ideas has helped them explore fiberglass composite technologies and experimenting with their team riders. Their main goal has always been about building a better surfboard.

Another one of the Chouinards’ goals is to create the best surfboards possible and reduce the use of toxic and non-renewable materials used in the production of traditional surfboards. After a year of testing various “greener” materials, they’ve come up with a “cutting edge” composite surfboard that’s lighter, stonger, and less toxic.

Johnny Rice grew up in Santa Cruz, California and shaped his own balsa wood surfboard early on in his garage. That board didn’t end up working so well but it was the beginning of his shaping career. Rice, who is part Plains Indian, would find himself working for Dale Velzy in Venice, California. One day Velzy asked Rice if he wanted to learn how to shape and through the teachings of Velzy, he learned the art of surfboard shaping.

Johnny Rice has worked for a few of the industry’s biggest names including, Velzy, Jacobs, Kim Kidd, Con, Rick, South Bay, Oceanside, and Dick Catri to name a few. Over the eyars, he’s made surfboards with interesting names such as Malibu Competition, the Black Widow, the Scorpion, V 360, Instrument and Renegade. Recently, he teamed up with Surftech to produce epoxy versions of his high performance and cruiser models. Rice shapes his boards a little thinner than normal with more V in the tail leading to faster turns.

Hunt Custom Surfboards was started by Gregg Hunt in 2000 and is located in Alhambra, CA. Hunt Custom Surfboards specializes in quality hand shaped longboards with emphasis on classic style and modern performance characteristics. While they do offer a large variety of stock boards, if you can’t find a board that fits your surfing style, they can shape a custom board for you.

All surfboards feature Walker Foam blanks and quality glass jobs from Shoreline Glassing, located in Hermosa Beach. All Hunt Custom Surfboards utilize hand crafted fins from Fibreglas Fin Co.

Gregg Hunt grew up surfing in California at well known spots like Malibu and D&W Jetty. He began shaping custom surfboards in 2000 specifically for noseriding and trimming and has constantly refined his shapes over the last six years.

San Diego shaper Tim Bessell’s shaping beginnings happened in his parent’s garage when he shaped his first board at the age of 13. A couple years later he began shaping for Sunset Surfboards and began making a name for himself. Tim later moved to to ultimate testing grounds of Hawaii where his shaping was put to the highest test. He shaped for Lightning Bolt Surfboards which at the time was one of the top surfboard manufacturers around.

After moving back to California, Tim got into art and apparel and began making a name for himself in those respective endeavors. In 1997, he decided to focus only on surfboards and Tim Bessell Surfboards was resurrected.

Tim has produced over 43,000 surfboards which have been featured on the covers of major surf publications. He has also shaped surfboards for some of the top surfers in the world who include eter King, Luke Egan, Jon Roseman, Glen Winton, Brad Gerlach, Vetea David, and Ricky Irons to name a few.

Bessell’s custom surfboards and willingness to work with each individual customer has help build his strong reputation in San Deigo.

Bob Bolen, a self taught surfer and shaper, started surfing in 1958 and shaped his first board one year later. In 1960, “The Greek” opened his shop known as “Surfboards by the Greek” in Huntington Beach. He later closed the shop in 1980 and currently works in Real Estate. His designs can be found at Huntington Beach Realty where his office serves as a real estate office and surf outlet.

Bolen has produced several well known models such as The Eliminator, Maui Model, and the Pickle all of which helped put him on the map. He is also the inventor of the Turbo Tunnel longboard fin and continues to surf in Southern California.

Due to Bob’s limited production schedule, custom Greek surfboards can be hard to find these days. However, die hard Greek fans can find some of his timeless shapes in Surftech epoxy models.