The shaper
Luke Studer
Stoody boards are shaped by hand in Canggu, a few minutes up the road from Batu Bolong, and ridden across Indonesia by people who surf a lot more than most.
He signs it “dimensions”
Not “designs”. Not “shapes”. Dimensions — which tells you most of what you need to know about how Luke thinks about a surfboard.
Read any of the model write-ups on this site and it’s all there in his own words: where the wide point sits, how much vee is under your chest, what the tail is doing in front of the fins. The Deserts Special exists because Travis Potter needed something to chase twenty-second barrels around Indonesia on. The Dr. Feelgood took two years of putting two older models together until it behaved like one board.
None of that is marketing language. It’s a shaper telling you what he changed and why.
Everything is named after something
Ten boards, ten decals, and not one of them a serial number. Thriller in the horror drip. Zeppelin in chrome. Dr. Feelgood in the Crüe slab. GRIT as a gunslinger off a Western poster. They’ve been on the boards the whole time, an inch tall, where nobody could read them.
The quickest way to understand how Luke shapes is to have him shape you one.
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