For decades, the process of making a surfboard has more or less been the same: cut a piece of foam; put a wooden stringer down the middle to provide structure and strength; shape it, then wrap it in ...

When he was a young man, Mark Price, the bespectacled South African CEO of Firewire, an eco-friendly surfboard maker based in Southern California, lived much of his life out of a suitcase, traveling ...

Firewire’s Custom Board Design (CBD) option lets you shape your own board, tweaking the width, nose, tail, and thickness. Using the online modeling app, I scaled up a 6’2″ Dominator, giving it a wider ...

The great irony in the sport of surfing is that the process of making a surfboard puts a great deal of strain on the environment. The various chemicals and materials used to assemble boards, leashes, ...