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Your boards.
Your configurator.

Built around your shapes, your colours and the way you actually glass a board.

A board with a resin swirl running nose to tail.

Try it. No sign-up.

This one's blank.
Yours wouldn't be.

Placeholder shapes, a starter palette, a mark that just says your mark. Every slot here would be filled with yours.

LIVEyourboards.co.uk / design-your-boardRuns in your browser

Built around you

Ten things that
are yours, not ours.

Your modelsEvery shape you make, however many.
Your outlinesTraced from photos, or straight off your CAD.
Your sizesReal lengths, widths, thicknesses, volumes.
Your paintsThe range your bay sprays, by its own codes.
Your tintsHouse colours, each at its real strength.
Your poursSwirls that behave like resin, never the same twice.
Your spraysBase coats, taped bands, stripes, fades.
Your laminationWrapped or inlaid, at your lap width.
Your hardwareThe boxes and plugs you actually rout.
Your markOn the board, at the right real size.

Drawn, not stretched

Every model gets
its own outline.

One shop's range, all drawn to the same scale. A generic tool would give you one silhouette at five different heights.

Round square 8'6
Square 7'6
Round 7'2
Round pin 7'0
Round 6'10

The commercial bit

It pays for itself twice.

01 On boards you'd never have sold

Someone builds one at eleven at night. Picks the tint, watches the swirl land, gives it a colour nobody else has. Then they shut the laptop, and they can't stop thinking about it.

That board exists now. They've seen it. Ordering is just catching up with a decision they already made.

02 And on the orders already in your book

Someone's put a deposit on a plain white 6′2. One message: have a play with this before I start glassing. They come back wanting a tint, or a rail band, or something they never knew you offered.

Same customer. Same slot in the schedule. More money on the order.

Nobody upsells a board over the phone by describing it. They upsell it by showing it. This is the showing.

How it goes

Three steps.
Then it keeps growing.

1

Tell us how you build

Your range, how you glass, what your bay sprays. One conversation decides what it is.

2

Send your outlines

Design files, templates, or photos. Whatever exists. We trace and fair them.

3

It goes on your site

One tag, into the site you already have. New models and techniques get added as you invent them.

Who you'd be working with

I work the floor.

I grew up competing, and I've worked in a board factory for the last couple of years. I still do. Most of what I know about how a board goes together came from people who've been doing it for decades and were good enough to explain it.

So I know what a lamination looks like when it's gone wrong. I know which techniques are quick and which are a nightmare. I know what's realistic to draw and what isn't.

You won't spend the first three calls explaining what a lap is.

The long game

I don't build this and walk away.

I work in a factory full time. This is the thing I build around it, for shops like the one I'm in.

That isn't a disclaimer, it's the reason it's any good. I'm in a bay every week watching what actually slows a job down, and I'm not going to lose interest in surfboards and move on to something else.

So yours doesn't stand still. New models when you shape them. New colours when you stock them. New finishes when you work one out. The engine underneath gets better too, and when it does, you get that as well.

Every shop I work with makes it better for the next one, mine included. A technique worked out in one bay becomes something every configurator can draw, which is why this is worth more in a year than it is the day it goes up.

Stick with it and it compounds. Most software you buy is worth less every month you own it. This one should be worth more.

Pricing

Two numbers, both honest.

Once The build

Priced on what you actually have. How many models, whether your outlines exist digitally or need tracing, how many ways a board can be finished in your bay. A three-model shaper and a factory running two paint ranges are not the same job, so they are not the same number.

Monthly The retainer

Hosting, fixes when a browser changes under you, and new models, colours and techniques added as you make them. Not a support queue that has never heard of you. Someone who already knows your range.

It is the part that keeps the thing alive rather than slowly ageing, and it is deliberately not a barrier.

No tiers and no seat prices, because there's no version of this that ships without knowing how you build. Tell us what you make and you'll get both numbers and a date.

Get both numbers

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