Bob Carson grasped the cheese-grater-like tool with both hands and slowly pushed it along the side of the long plank of foam. Bit by bit, the tool’s perforated metal edge scraped and shaped the foam until the smoothed board looked more and more like something you would put in the water.
Mr. Carson, the owner of Cane Garden Bay Surfboards, spends most of his weekends crafting surfboards in a workshop at his CGB home, a “hobby” he’s been practising since 1965.
Growing up near the California coast, Mr. Carson started surfing in 1958, and became an avid surfer. He worked his way up to surfing professionally and along the way found out what he liked and didn’t like in a surfboard, he said. Then he started making more boards for his fellow surfers.
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See the Sept. 15, 2011 edition for full coverage.