Wooden Surfboard Designer
Design your board

Documentation

Ordering & cutting files

From design to a kit: order your frame cut in Paulownia, or download the templates and cut it yourself.

Ordering a kit

When the board is shaped the way you want it, press Order kit in the toolbar. The order panel walks through four steps:

  1. Your board — check the length, width, thickness and volume. Go back and keep designing if anything is off, or open the spec sheet.
  2. Choose your kit — the frame alone, the frame with deck and bottom skins, or the frame with skins and rail strips — then any add-ons: fin boxes (charged per box in FCS II or Futures, and set to the number your fin setup uses), a vented leash plug and Fixitmate FMP200 glue. Every stringer is cut in two halves with a puzzle joint, so the kit fits an Australia Post parcel.
  3. Email your design — opens your email app with your board, your choices and a link to your design, so the kit is cut to your exact shape. If the link is too long for an email, the design file downloads instead for you to attach.
  4. Check out — pay for the frame kit on paulowniatimber.com.au, choosing your board's length in the Board length menu (the panel tells you which option). Kits with skins, and boards over 10'0", are priced by email instead.

Prices include GST. Kits are priced by board length in half-foot steps: a board is rounded up to the next half foot, and the panel shows which step it was priced at. Items without a listed price are confirmed by email. Skins and rail strips come from 2400 mm sheets, so kits with skins are for boards up to that length.

Cutting it yourself

Download the frame templates, at the bottom of the order panel, opens the construction templates for the board you have designed: the stringer, ribs, nose and tail blocks and rail bands, laid out and nested on your sheet size, ready for a laser or CNC router. Download them as DXF or SVG for the machine, or as a tiled 1:1 PDF to trace by hand.

Every setting is explained in construction templates.

Spec sheet

A one-page summary of the board's numbers — dimensions at the standard stations, volume, and your board details — opened in a new tab ready to print, from View spec sheet in the order panel. This is the sheet you hand to someone else, rather than a file for a machine.