…hey Surfding
here the 50 y o or older surfers, who use shortboards go with 6 3 x 19 - 19 1/2 x 2 3/8 - 2 1/2
nobody here use a 6 7 as a shortboard
but not B B players here in the water…
i dont stand on it but my friend has …you need to be a heavy front footed surfer…kinda like a fish…
Surfboard classification! I love it…linnaeus would no doubt turn in his grave;)
Who cares what you call it?
Don’t take me too serious!
Knowing Reverb is a hardcore shortboarder just responding to his post in fun.
Relax!
When you make surfboards in one of the many surf getto’s we consider a shortboard more of a streamline designed
thruster for high performance modern day surfing. Anything other than that is called what it is.
{Retro; Fish; Funboard; Mini-Mal; Classic Longboard; Nose rider; High Performance Longboard}
Just surf shop jargon.
For example In the cnc room the operator will say:
I have 6 shortboard blanks, 2 fish blanks, 3 funboard blanks, 2 Longboard blanks.
The Longboard blanks have the wrong deck rocker because they are suppose to be High Perfomance Longboards.
So we order blanks to fit the deck rocker. Production is delayed for the HPLB’s.
The blanks in stock are used to make a more traditional longboard due to the flatness of the rocker.
The blanks and the cutting schedule are all Classified by design.
Deck rockers are different for each design so we call each variation by it’s proper name to maintain design integrity.
Glassing the same: Your work is Classified before you start glasssing:
The glassing schedule will vary depending on the style of the board.
Retro’s will have 6+4 deck and 6 bottom.
The same with BG’s their glassed a little heavier than a standard shortboard because of the heavier surfer.
Classic longboards are glassed with Volan.
High performance longboards (6+4 deck - 6 bottom) for stock retail (4+4 deck - 6 bottom) Comp-lite.
Shortboards are normally glassed lighter (4+4 deck 4 bottom) sometimes with a 3/4 patch.
Shortboarders who rip don’t care about pressure dings like a beginner will.
They want the deck to contour to their feet like a shoe.
After about 4 weeks pull out another one.
By todays definition thats a shortboard!
Anything else is something else!
It’s a way of keep track of the work load.
Very balanced!
How about a side view with rocker notes and thickness foil?
Max thickness is 2 3/8". It would be 2 3/4" if flat bottomed, but add 3/8" concave. The rocker outline is at the stringer. The thickness at 12" from the tail is 1 1/2" and the thickness at 12" from the nose is 1 1/4". I kept the deck fairly flat to keep the foam all the way to the rails. The rails are fairly boxy.
Nice rocker line!
Good foil.
It’s a bonafide shorthboard!
I’d like to take the credit for it, but that would be wrong ;-). I took a channel islands K step up that I have, that I almost like! Took a piece of 1/4" luan plywood and made a rocker template. I really liked the rocker of the board, but the template, rails and bottom contour were all wrong for what I wanted to do. I combined it with an 80’s Del Miller and some trial and error for the volume.
The problem with almost all channel islands is they are designed for a 150 pound surfer. Even their longer boards are really just little guy guns.
By the way does anybody know what happened to Del Miller? I think he was mainly located in the South Bay, CA
This is the new model for bigger surfers.
Don’t let the rocker numbers throw you off.
It’s base on the board sitting level on the fixtures of the CNC.
The translation is 2 1/2 tail and 5 7/8 nose.
That’s taking a typical WQS or WCT board and adjusting it to your dims.
This formula works well for guy’s that surf standard surfboards.
No Way! You’ve got to change the name to everySURFER!!! 
EVERYSURFER will be the name! Thanks for the marketing ideal!