Joe has a huge number of old photos floating around. ...
The large surfboard fin that looks like it belongs on ...
Joe spends his days shaping a particular type of board. ...
Thanks for visiting Joey Thomas’s surfboard website. Joey Thomas is a surfing pioneer who continues to hand shape custom boards in Santa Cruz California to this very day. Joe is going on 50+ years of riding and shaping surfboards and is considered to be one of the very few true master craftsman left in the [ Read More ]
Joe has a huge number of old photos floating around. A lot of these precious beauties are sitting in his shaping room collecting foam dust (literally)…We’ll be adding more as we get to them. Enjoy some surf history!!
The large surfboard fin that looks like it belongs on a shark is called a Cut Away Fin. It is based off a Steve Sanders design that Joe had built. It has a vector foil with an inside concave. If you look at the fin from the side it looks a lot like a fish [ Read More ]
Joe spends his days shaping a particular type of board. Which is a culmination of all of his experience over the years. Its a 7’6″ – 7’11″ 22″ wide, 18″ nose, 15″ tail 2 3/4″ round pin 4 fin surfboard. It’s what he calls, “The Evolution”. He say’s, “It a great board for people of all ages, it gives [ Read More ]
