Your in the Foam Zone. On this page you will get information about Dean Cleary Surfboards and myself Dean Cleary. The picture to the left is my first professional shaping room it still stands today as a shed on 6th street in Huntington Beach as least it did a few weeks ago. It was just behind the parking lot of
The Surf Theater.
The Surf Theater.
All Dean Cleary Surfboards and Kneeboards are hand shaped by Dean Cleary. I use first quality whatever brand blanks I can get and glassing is done at OceanWorks where my shaping room is located. Shaping at the glass shop allows me to monitor the quality of all boards and shaped blanks don't need to get transported once they are shaped. I also am making blanks from Polystyrene foam and glassed with Epoxy resin
FAQ.
FAQ.
Zone Out!
December 20 2007
It's dark and dismal here in Southern California and I think the surfboard industry is quite dismal here as well. If you are not one of the big names with a huge marketing campaign you probably are not going to make a very good living in this industry. More and more of the industry leaders seem to be moving their operations to China or Mexico and surfers are able to get boards at a low cost from boards made abroad.
US consumers want low prices and seem willing to except surfboards that are made in China. I will continue to create boards at small volumes and and build them by hand here as I fill a niche market.