Is better possible? This question turned into an obsession with surfboard construction—exploring new methods to eliminate the toxic styrene foams and carcinogenic resins that unfortunately ...

Tyler Hopkins is a Santa Cruz based shaper that has committed to glassing all of his boards using biobased resins under this surfboard label, Locus. He built this beautiful asymmetric surfboard ...

makes and sells surfboards. Each one is made completely by hand and takes about 30 hours of skilled labor. His complex process involves covering a foam base with layers of resin and plexiglass to ...