Rusty Preisendorfer shaped his first surfboard almost forty years ago, and the La Jolla, California based shaper hasn’t stopped since. After shaping his first board at the age of sixteen, Rusty shaped boards for well-known labels like Gordon & Smith and Canyon while he studied visual arts at U.C.S.D., and earned a reputation as one of the top shapers in the world by his mid twenties when he began shaping boards for 1976 World Champ Peter “PT” Townend.In 1978 a well-spoken South-African named Shaun Tomson rode Rusty’s designs to a …

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