Belly Board

Here’s John’s Ice Blue T-Belly. The latest iteration of the T-Belly has thinner foil and lower rocker. The slope-deck rails are thin, offering good wave penetration. I moved the fins slightly forward, but kept the V outside of the fins,… (READ MORE)

Last month, a guy named Bill brought a board into my glasser’s (Ray Lucke) shop. We do a lot of ding repair so this wasn’t anything unusual. I was in the back shaping when one of the guys came back and… (READ MORE)

This T-Belly is headed to Mario in Hamburg, Germany. I made some adjustments in thickness to better match Mario’s 170lb weight and shortened the length to 48″ to better match his 5’8″ height. Although, personally, I like the smaller size even… (READ MORE)

I had to move a bunch of stuff down to SD. Filled up the ol’ truck, but had just enough room for a borrowed T-Belly and my fins. Caught some glassy “OH” 3’ers. Felt good to get into some warmer… (READ MORE)

I made some alterations in my standard T-Belly design based upon Stan’s input and came up with this nice single-wing, squash-tail twin-fin. I added a sloped-rail to the design in an effort to keep the rail profile as thin as possible while… (READ MORE)

Stan and I worked on his new “Super T-Belly” last weekend. We spent a lot of time talking about design elements, and I got a chance to explain the shaping process, what I was doing and why. Of course we had… (READ MORE)

This twin-fin T-Belly is headed for Nor Cal. It was just polished out yesterday, so I thought I’s take some good pix before it heads up there. The T-bellys have a number of unique features. The deck has a 1/4″ concave starting… (READ MORE)

John stopped in today to pick up his new 48″ T-Belly. He likes to surf the breaks on the Channel Islands and the quad set-up will help him do just that. Fins are FCS GX (front) and smaller FCS GL (rear). This… (READ MORE)