Shapers
Surfboard shapers in Portugal
The people building boards on this coast: custom orders, their own models, and where to find them.
Appleton Surfboards
Diogo Appleton hand-shapes fish, twins, single fins and longboards in Lisbon, a retro-leaning range built around glide rather than contest surfing. His own fins too.
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Barbudas Surfboards
One shaper, Joao, building custom boards from start to finish in Aljezur, designed for the heavy, exposed waves of the southwest coast.
SurfBlue Room Surf Hub
A board-building hub at Charneca da Caparica: custom shaping, lamination, CNC and 3D design, plus shaping rooms independent shapers can rent.
SurfBob's Boards
A shaper in Lagos doing custom boards and repairs for the western Algarve, from performance shapes to fun and retro outlines.
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Edu Shapes
Eduardo Garcia shapes a full range out of Praia das Macas, from performance shortboards and mid-lengths to guns and tow boards tested at Nazare. Custom only, more than twenty years in.
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Fatum Surfboards
Premium custom surfboards designed, shaped and tested in Peniche by Gero Tragatschnig. CAD design, machine cut, hand-finished, with the shaper in direct contact with each customer.
SurfHamanda Surfboards
Antonio Mello hand-shapes his own line of boards in Lisbon - the name is short for Antonio Mello Hand Shapes. A young shaper with a growing range of named models.
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Killerfish Surfboards
A small hand-shaping operation on the Cascais line at Parede, near Carcavelos, doing custom boards and ding repairs with a strong local following.
SurfLacrau Surfboards
Custom high-performance boards from the Cascais area, shaping since 2006. Well known among the stronger surfers on the Lisbon line.
SurfMatta Surfboards
Nuno Matta has shaped high-performance boards behind Costa da Caparica for around thirty years, with a big walk-in showroom stock and outlines built for beach-break surfing.
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Mica Surfboards
Mica Lourenco hand-shapes made-to-measure boards out of Carvoeira, minutes from the Ericeira reefs: grovellers, step-ups, eggs, classics and a full high-performance line.
SurfPolen Surfboards
One of Europe's biggest surfboard factories, in Cascais since 1988. Polen shapes its own brand and produces under licence for names like Pyzel, Timmy Patterson and Stretch.
SurfPortugal Surf Factory
A production factory near Sintra that builds boards for international shapers - Dylan Longbottom, John Carper, Gary Linden among them - plus big-wave boards and repairs.
SurfRazman Surfboards
A small Peniche board label working to order. No website: the shaper posts finished boards and takes orders through Facebook.
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SPO Surfboards
Hugo Cartaxana's Santa Cruz factory, two decades in. SPO shapes performance and competition boards and most of the tow boards used up the coast at Nazare.
SurfSemente Surfboards
Portugal's most established performance surfboard label, shaping in Ericeira since the 1980s. Founded by American shaper Nick Uricchio in the town at the centre of what is now the World Surfing Reserve.
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Surfactory
A northern surfboard factory near Ovar, running since 2010. Own brand Xtreme Surfdesign, plus licensed production for Local Motion, Jim Banks, Country Surfboards and others.
SurfWavegliders
An Ericeira surf shop and shaping room in one - hand-shaped boards by Nico alongside a classic-leaning shop, in the town at the centre of the World Surfing Reserve.
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