Have something unique.

The next wave coming through is different than every other. It’s yours to be ridden and never experienced again. A product of nature, it’s perfect. It travels from thousands of miles away, then it breaks and it’s gone forever.

Surely there is a place for machine made surfboards. There is also something special about a board that’s one of a kind. Like the waves we ride, when it breaks you will never have it again; but in that there is something beautiful. It opens the door to a different but no less magical experience.

I have a passion for things that look good and work well. Uniqueness excites me. I live for moments of bliss on handcrafted water riding sleds designed and painstakingly pieced together by artists.

I created shapyr.com not as an attempt to combat automation in surfing. Only as a modest effort to support shapers around the world — a movement to preserve the craft of building surfboards.