Custom Surfboards
The best way to show your stuff while you are riding the waves at the beach is through the purchase of custom surfboards. Whether you are a long-boarder or a short-boarder, there are shops out there that create a variety of custom surfboards. Custom surfboards allow surfers to express their creativity, but many surfers feel that this customization is out of their price range. So how expensive are custom surfboards and how do you go about getting one? Three online shops offering custom surfboards are Schneider Surfboards, Johnny Rice Surfboards, and Bessell Surfboards.
Schneider Surfboards begins by having a surfer choose the style of surfboard that you wish to customize. These include the shortboard, the hybrid, the fish, the bbb, the piglet, the gun, the gromboard, the funboard, the fungun, the nugget, the NoseRider, the kingmother and the modern board. Schneider not only offers intriguing designs, but you can also place your own photographs on your custom surfboards. One standard graphic is included with Schneider surfboards, with airbrushing ranging from $20 and up.
Johnny Rice also offers custom surfboards of all different types. Two aspects that make him a little different from the rest are his marbleizing techniques and his custom wood boards. The marbleizing gives the custom surfboards a unique appearance, with swirls of color. And when it comes to custom wood surfboards, you can't get any more custom than Johnny's. The wooden boards are created from raw materials, not from pre-formed boards!
Finally, there is Bessell. The creator has over 43,000 boards to his name! As with the previous two shops, the first step is picking your style of board. Custom surfboards by Bessell are shaped by hand, while if you order a stockboard, you can choose to have the design run through a machine to insure that you have the exact board shape you want. The styles include the Balsa, the Circa 60s, the Classic, the G2, the MC, La Paloma, the Competition Longboard, the Rhino Chaser, the Basic Beat, the Magic Carpet, the Pocket Rocket, and the Eliminator. The creator, Tim Bessell, will then help you through the process of creating a design for your custom board.