Lunada

A: Most riders land in the 9'4"–9'8" band, with 9'6" × 23" × 3" as the pilot dimension and the size we recommend if you're trying to guess from a single number. Step up (10'0"+) if you favor pure trim and longer glide; step down (9'0"–9'4") if you want a more responsive feel under foot. Weight matters less than riding style here — the foam package scales with length, so the 9'6" fits a wide weight range once thickness is dialed. If you're unsure, message Blake with your weight, your home break, and the kind of wave you're trying to ride; he'll size you to the dim that actually fits your sessions.

A: Stock layout is a single-fin in a 10.5" Stavron long box, centered on the stringer — the standard Lundquist longboard hardware locked in April 2026. Single-fin is the right call for a cruiser longboard; it sets a clean trim line and holds through drawn-out sections without catching at turn entry. Specific fin-template recommendations (rake-vs-pivot, True Ames vs. NVS vs. Stavron) are coming with the fin deep-dive — until that ships, start the custom order and I'll recommend a template based on your weight, stance, and the surf you're riding. [BLAKE: ?] confirm 2+1 alt language per the longboard-rule conflict — Magic Carpet is currently the only 2+1 longboard in the catalog.

A: Knee-high to chest-high, clean and unbroken — the cruiser sweet spot. The board lives at San Onofre's Old Man's and Dogpatch zones, Doheny on a chest-high south, T-Street when it's clean, Cardiff Reef on a longboard morning, and Malibu first point when the lineup is friendly. On a surf trip it slots into Saladita's long left in mainland Mexico, Pavones in Costa Rica, and Nosara's softer points. It's not a heavy-surf board and it doesn't want a peak to drop in on — Lunada wants a wave it can draw a long, unbroken line across.

A: Low-intermediate through advanced longboarders who value smooth, drawn-out turns over high-speed pivots. The single-fin layout plus the low-entry-rocker / easy-paddle bias makes it forgiving enough for someone moving up from a soft-top into their first custom longboard, and the high exit rocker with the back-foot release in the contour gives an experienced longboarder real range to push the board through a redirect. It's not a high-performance pivot log and it's not a noserider-only template — if your riding style is locked all the way at either end of the longboard spectrum, there are better fits in the lineup.

A: Lead time depends on the current shop queue. Once your dims are confirmed and your finish tier is locked, you'll get a date at order. The shop process: dimensions designed to your specs in Shape3D, blank CNC-cut, then finished by Jack — glassed, sanded, and (if you've ordered the gloss + polish tier) rubbed out to show quality. Three finish tiers ship at three different cadences: clear- sanded is the fastest; tinted-sanded adds time for the lam; gloss + polish adds a coat plus a polish cycle. A 25% deposit at order locks the slot.

A: Both boards live in the same cruiser/glide-first sub-camp of traditional longboard design — paddle bias, single-fin layout, drawn- out trim line, soft-points-and-mellow-walls home water. The Lunada's contour is doing something specific that pulls it slightly away from a pure-traditional reference: a rolled vee through the front gives you the soft rail-to-rail of a hull, but the single concave through the tail keeps the back foot loaded for redirects in a way a pure belly-bottom log doesn't. Practical translation: if you ride a Silver Spoon and you want more release at the back foot when you do step back to turn, that's where Lunada's contour earns its keep.

A: Three published finish tiers, all on a 6oz S-cloth + 4oz E-cloth deck/bottom schedule (the longboard standard — heavier than a shortboard schedule because longboard rails take more flex cycles over the lifetime of the board). Clear Resin Sanded at $1,050: functional, fastest turnaround, sanded off the lam. Resin Tint Sanded at $1,200: color both sides of the board in the lam, then sand it smooth. Resin Tint Gloss + Polish at $1,400: top-tier finish with a gloss coat polished to show quality. Add-ons stack on top: volan tail patch, nose patch, custom airbrush, stringer upgrades, opaque vs. translucent tint. Every option in the customize panel links to the relevant build-guide page.

A: Most traditional logs run belly throughout — the rolled hull that defines the trim feel of a 1960s longboard. The Lunada is a modern cruiser, not a 1960s replica. The contour reads rolled vee through the front (you keep the soft rail-to-rail handoff that hull- bottom boards are built around) and transitions to a single concave through the tail — which loads the back foot, releases water out of redirects, and lets you finish a turn with intent instead of letting the tail wash through. Combined with the turned-down 60/40 rails and hard tail in the contour, the design intent is a cruiser that turns when asked. It's the trade Lunada is built to make: keep the trim character of a traditional log up front, modernize the back foot.