6'6" Alex Knost Disco Consignment

6'6" Alex Knost Disco ConsignmentBetween recording albums, touring, going on surf trips, and managing the Costa Mesa Conceptual Art Center, Costa Mesa's Alex Knost manages to squeeze in some time to shape some select sleds. The Disco model is a contemporary refinement on the Space Pins we all know and love from Knost's early stages of his shaping career. The Disco exhibits a teardrop outline with the wide point forward and a pulled in pin tail. The bottom contour starts with a rolled

The side bites allow for added drive to propel you down the line or through turns

These surfers were developing and riding boards that were thought to be radical deviations from the norm

when turning this board you're going to want to be roughly over the fins to several inches above the fins

This sled is complete with abstract resin art

punchy surf

In comparison to Liddle's Death Machine

Designed and edited by Tom Adler and Evan Backes

he naturally stopped by and showed us the newest iterations of his Prototype equipped with his notes on rocker on the stringer

Tanner Prairie is a local Costa Mesa based board builder who knows how to shape incredibly fun boards for Orange County surf

until it kicks into 5th gear

The Mega Fish makes beautiful

5'6" x 19 3/4" x 2 3/16"