9’6″ x 22 1/2″ "I started shaping when I was 10, just making boards in my garage," says 18-year-old shaper and logger Zack Flores. "I started by watching Jim Phillips—I just sat in his room for 2 years watching [...]

It's hard to imagine, but in less than two years, the Thruster—perhaps the most important advancement in the history of modern surfing—will turn 40. New South Wales surfer-shaper Simon Anderson added a third-fin to the then[...]

When getting mentally prepared to throw yourself over the ledge, or stroke into an open ocean bomb, having a shaper who knows the feeling certainly doesn't hurt if you're looking for peace of mind. So what's on Rusty Surfboards’ [...]

A couple of months ago when we interviewed Byron Bay shortboard pioneer, Bob McTavish, he praised Al Merrick for a board the legendary Channel Islands founder/shaper made for Tom Curren in the 1980's, which McTavish called "the first [...]

Widely considered the father of modern surfboard design, Bob Simmons might recognize the outline of Infinity Surfboards’ mini-simmons-inspired Roundtable Model. Simmons, after all, was all about speed. And the Roundtable cuts a f[...]

For Rusty Surfboard's newest groveler, the SD, diversity seems to be the guiding principle. If you live in a region like San Diego, you know that even an underwhelming swell will produce a variety of conditions between North and South [...]