It’s estimated that top-ranked surfers competing on the world tour get upwards of 80 surfboards a year. With few exceptions most are glassed clear, top and bottom, with a non-gloss, sanded finish ...

Vince Broglio is a glasser and he”s an artist. But — and here is where it gets confusing — he”s not a glass artist. The well-known Santa Cruz surfer makes a living “glassing” surfboards, that is, he ...

As a kid, I would often sneak into the garage just wishing that I could check out my dad’s green-tinted single-fin surfboard that hung in the rafters. He didn’t surf anymore, but would occasionally ...

Are the days of glass shops numbered? St. Pierre thinks they are for the majority. “Stuff’s going to go overseas. There’ll always be some {glass shops}, but I don’t know. When a surfer talks about ...