Chemistry Surfboards

New for 2012, we introduce our quickest and most high performance board to date. Designed with a mellow entry rocker for maximum planing speed that feeds into a very extended tail rocker. Continue reading

With all the recent hype on the modern, high performance single fin, we decided to take it to the “next level” of high performance with our version of the Twin Fin. The decision to not go as far back in time as the single fin stems from the desire of speed along with wanting the ability to turn. Continue reading

If you are in the South Bay/L.A. area please make sure you stop by Spyder and check out the new Chemistry’s in the shop. Spyder is our first and only dealer in L.A. county and they are holding a good amount of inventory that includes a model that has not been officially released (the Disk 2).   Continue reading

New for winter 2011-2012. The Compression offers you the ability to ride a shorter more maneuverable board in bigger waves. With this model we added width in the nose and more forward volume to make up for the shorter length. We recommend going anywhere from 1 to 3 feet shorter than your typical gun while adding 1/2″ to the width and 1/2″ to the thickness. With the combination of a fuller nose, thicker volume flow, and a smooth entry rocker, this model will get you into almost anything the ocean has to offer. By going shorter, the Compression allows the surfer to maneuver his/her board unlike the big rhino chasers of the past which only allowed surfers to make a drop. We also recommend going with a four fin setup to offer the fastest possible fin setup. This will help in the tube, out run big sections, and maneuver the bigger board well.
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I thought that this would be an appropriate post due to the fact that we are in the heat of summer and I’m in full blown production mode. I started my shaping career as an apprentice and hand shaping three boards a day. I would rough them out in the morning the do all my finish work after lunch. Continue reading

Take time to pay one of our best retailers a visit and check out the fresh shipment of Beaker models. The boards are at both the Oceanside and Solana Beach locations as well as online. Continue reading

Our newest model for the summer is here, the MegaTron. A direct spin off of David Barr’s Tron model, but geared for the more high performance surfer wanting to excel in tiny waves. Continue reading

Lately the crew has been testing a technology that is relatively new in the U.S. but has been around for a while in it’s country of origin, Brazil. Keahana Technology takes an EPS blank designed and manufactured by Keahana that is glued up with a special goldenrod stringer and then it is laminated with their patented process or “kit” as they call it. Continue reading

Over the past 4 years I have been experimenting with all kinds of different concaves and rockers for my high performance boards. I’ve gone from super deep to slight concaves, and boards that have a ton of rocker to boards that have more relaxed rockers. I’m always searching for a perfect match between these two elements of surfboard design. I believe these two things make a board work amazing or absolutely horrible. I was stuck in a period where all I was doing was deep concaves and it seemed that was where everybody was headed and most of our customers where asking for it. I was making myself these designs and kept feeling the boards to be very inconsistent.
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WQS warrior Austin Ware recently picked up a new Chemistry in Hydroflex Technology shaped by Jason Bennett. He had ridden a board is this technology at a demo a few weeks earlier and it sparked some interest. The Hydroflex technology was engineered in Germany in cooperation with the Volkswagen network, is protected by three patents and has won multiple awards. The boards flex characteristics are adjustable by changing internal pressure via a handheld pump and a valve located on the deck of the board. It can be fine tuned according to surfer and wave conditions. This gives the surfer the immediate opportunity to drastically change the way the board flexes and rides by adding air or releasing it.
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