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Your configurator.

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

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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.

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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've worked the floor.

I grew up competing, and I've spent the last couple of years working in a factory. 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 in a busy bay. I know what's realistic to draw and what isn't. And when a shaper says something can't be done, I usually know whether that's true or whether it just needs asking differently.

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

Pricing

Every factory is different. So is every price.

No tiers, because there's no version of this that ships without knowing how you build. Tell us, and you'll get a number and a date.

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