Gallery: Handsome, Travel-Friendly Surfboards From the Beats Design Team
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Surfboards come in roughly three shapes: shortboards (“Pro surfers use them like skateboards, for doing tricks, getting air,” Rolandson says), longboards, for cruising, and gun boards, for taking on massive waves. The Octovo x Tilley boards have a shape that’s somewhere in the middle, so surfers can take them along different coastlines, in varying water conditions.
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Jason Tilley, the Oregon-based collaborator, actually specializes in custom sailboats, but he'd been working on a technique for building custom wooden boards.
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For its line of non-tech products, Ammunition, the design studio behind Beats by Dre and other products, teamed with an Oregon surfboard maker.
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“We talked about, what would a traveling surfer need?” he says. “We looked about some shapes about boards that could be utilized in several conditions.”
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The Octovo x Tilley starts at $3,000 a board and can be found [here](http://www.ammunitiongroup.com/work/octovo-tilley/).
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Most boards have a foam core and fiberglass exterior; the combination is simultaneously lightweight and sturdy. Instead of fiberglass, Tilley’s boards have an exoskeleton of locally milled cedar, that’s layered on the foam core in sheets and then vacuum molded to fit. The result is more sumptuous, and according to Rolandson, stronger.
