11/5/11 Mike Woo has requested that his profile be removed from surfboardshack.com. According to him, he no longer make surfboards. All comments have been removed from this post.

Hawaii shaper Jason Kashiwai develops high quality boards with the best craftsmanship. His shapes have been tested all over the world with his various team riders. You’ll find J. Kashiwai Surfboards in select Hawaii surf shops and a variety of shortboards as well as signature team rider shapes. The Kashiwai team consists of Jun Jo, Mike Dodd, Jason Shibata, and a number of Japanese pros.

Pat Rawson of Rawson Surfboards was born in Santa Monica, California, and has been shaping surfboards on Oahu’s North Shore since 1972. While shaping the majority of his boards out of Sunset Beach, Hawaii, Rawson has been designing innovative custom surfboards which can be found in 26 countries around the world including Central America, South America, Europe, Japan, and Australia.

Rawson began shaping surfboards in 1966 and worked for a variety of California shapers including Rick Surfboards, Wilken Surfboards, Blue Cheer Surfboards, Tom Overline Surfboards, and Doug Haut Surfboards. He later moved to the North Shore of Oahu in the 1970’s and worked for Lightning Bolt Surfboards, George Downing – Wave Crest Hawaii, and Local Motion.

The consistency in Rawson Surfboards comes from CADD software that he’s custom programmed himself which provide surfers with a consistent signature design over and over again.

His team riders have included such notables such as “Buttons” Kaluhiokalani, Mark Liddell, Larry Bertelmann, Mike and Derek Ho, Mark Richards, Tom Carroll, Gary Elkerton, Reno Abelleira, Ben Aipa, “Beaver” Steve Massefellar, and Brian Kellner. His son Ryan has also made a name for himself charging some of the World’s largest waves at the big wave spot Peahi, aka Jaws.

Dennis Pang has shaped 27,000 surfboards ranging from single fins, twin fins, shortboard, funboards, longboards, and paddle boards. He’s shaped surfboards for surfers in Hawaii, California, Australia, Brazil, Peru, and Japan. He’s also shaped for companies such as Surfline Hawaii, Lightining Bolt, Local Motion, and Town & Country. Besides offering a variety of surfboards, he also been shaping competitive paddle boards since 1990. While working with Gerry Lopez, he created an EPS Epoxy paddle board striving to make it the lightest and strongest paddle board around.

Dennis Pang Paddle Boards

Sunset Point local Greg Griffin of Griffin Surfboards Hawaii has been called the “guru of multiple fin designs”. Greg Griffin was born in Palo Alto, California and began shaping in 1968 and learned the art from Santa Cruz shaper Doug Haut. He was influenced by Haut, Mike Croteau, and Dick Brewer and later started shaping for Town & Country Surfboards Hawaii during the 1980’s.

Griffin has shaped surfboards for some of Hawaii’s top professional surfers including former World Champions Sunny Garcia, Dino Miranda, Rusty Keaulana, and Martin Potter. Other Griffin team riders include Kaipo Jaquias, Dane Kealoha, Max Medeiros, Pocho Ahina, Johnny Boy Gomes, Zane Aikau, Joey Valentin, Dave Cantrell, and Shawn Monroe.

Greg Griffin’s shaping philosophy is to make surfboards as user friendly as possible and he plans on utilizing new materials and after market products to stay at the forefront of custom shaping.

George Downing established Downing Hawaii in 1949. He shaped his first redwood board with his close friend Wallace Froiseth in a Waikiki garage. George Downing’s ocean experience includes Beachboy, surfer, canoe paddler and surfboard shaper led to his position as Quiksilver Eddie Aikau event director. His son Keone, won the 1990 Eddie Invitational, beating hell-men Brock Little and Tony Moniz in giant surf at the North Shore’s world famous Waimea Bay.

Downing Hawaii offers a variety of classic shaped surfboards ranging from standard high performance shortboards, longboards, guns, and alternative riding boards like “Da Slippah”, a fast and responsive board which paddles like it’s six inches longer.

Glen Minami is one of Hawaii’s most well known and respected surfboard shapers. It is not uncommon to hear the majority of shapers from experienced  to up-and-coming stars who credit Glen Minami as a great teacher and instrumental influence.

Glen had been shaping under the old Blue Hawaii Surf label but due to a company dispute, he began a new label called Infamy Surfboards.

Minami has also worked with Surftech, who offers an epoxy version of his travel quiver.

Jeff Bushman started shaping surfboards in Ventura, California during the 1970’s. He shaped boards as a hobby and according to the Surftech website, claimed to have shaped 3,000 surfboards before he saw another person make one. In 1982 he took on the name Cyclone Surfboards and shaped surfboards where ever he traveled.

In 1988, Bushman moved to the North Shore of Oahu to put his surfing and shaping skills to the ultimate test. Bushman says, “The best surfers and the best shapers live in Hawaii and so I went there to see if I was up to it.” He has since shaped 31,000 surfboards to date and has shaped for big names including current team rider Pancho Sullivan, Shawn Briley, Tamayo Perry, Jack Johnson, Luke Egan, and Mick Lowe. Ross Clarke-Jones won the 2000 Eddie Aikau invitational at Waimea Bay on Bushman’s 10’0 Rocket Rails.

Bushman Surfboards are also available in a variety of Pancho Sullivan Surftech models including the Pancho TL2.

Darren Tatsuno shapes surfboards for Drift Surf Shop located in Honolulu, Hawaii. I’ve also found some of his surfboards on Japanese surf shop sites.

If anyone including Darren would like to add more information to this page, send us an email.

Glenn Pang has been Town & Country Surfboard’s lead shaper for quite some time now. Born in San Francisco, California, he began shaping for T&C in the 1980’s learning the art of shaping under the wings of Glenn Minami , Dick Brewer, Ben Aipa, and T&C founder Craig Sugihara.

Glenn’s shortboard and hybrid fish shapes are the most popular out in Oahu’s vast line-ups and the majority of boards in T&C shops have the G.Pang label on them. He believes that everyone has a unique surfing style and rhythm and the goal of a shaper is to match the surfer with the correct type of board and then fine tune things.

Glenn Pang’s shortboard designs leads T&C’s Surftech epoxy lineup offering his top designs in a stronger and more durable form.

He’s shaped for many top pros including Martin Potter, Marvin Foster and Jason Shibata to name a few with Rocky Point local Mikala Jones headlining the T&C team.