Recently i have been venturing into deciding to make a longboard soon. I have no idea how to accomplish this or how to approach it mainly. I am extremely ill-advised in the terms and specs of longboards. I have ventured to surfshops to base off of the dimesions from boards there and i only have a list full of dimensions, no fuller knoweldge. I live on the east coast in NJ, so i already know that a beachbreak longboard will be the best board for these conditions in NJ, but just exactly what does that mean? As in shape, nose, tail, rocker. Any information at this point will be helpful. Also, i was thinking about ordering a 9’4 blank to be my canvas.
You at this point are very well ill-advised as you say.
There is a wealth of information on this site, spend a month just reading and looking at threads. try to gain some knowledge.
Right now you sould like a guy who just grabbed a butter knife and said " Im gonna be a chef, but I know nothing about food, but first I should probably go kill a cow"
Believe it or not there are some excellent resources right there in the Garden State. Greenlight Surf Supply is in NJ as well as some Sway contributors that make some fine looking surfboards. Long boards and short boards. Tom Mahady is one of the board Builders. do some home work.
I should add, if I were building a longboard for NJ it would be very similar to the Bing Silver Spoon. Keep the swing weight down.
At the end of the day, even with longboards, its the indian not the arrow. My friend Meatstick in the barrel shots above can rip on any longboard you put under his feet.
