Moon Shine

Chest-to-overhead surf with shape — points, reefs, and shaped beach breaks. Most Moon Shines get ridden at SoCal home breaks like T-Street, Salt Creek, San Onofre on a good day, and secondary peaks at Trestles. Customers also pack them for surf trips to Mentawais, mainland Mexico, and Hawaii reef breaks at moderate size. The Moon Shine is not a grovel and not a step-up — it is built for the everyday-into-good-wave window where most working surfers actually spend their time.

The round tail holds in steeper good-wave faces — the held-in feel gives confident drive on a real wave. It pairs well with the Moon Shine's high-end-of-MED tail rocker for committed turns when the surf has push. If you want more release for SoCal-fun mode, the squash tail is available as a custom alt at no upcharge. If you want bite off the back foot in punchy surf, the swallow tail is available for a $15 upcharge. Each tail variant is dialed for its own geometry — the squash, round, and swallow aren't trimmed off the same blank.

Not stock. The Moon Shine is built around thruster-priority drive and release; adding extra fin boxes muddles the identity. We keep our line predominantly thruster or predominantly quad per board (rather than 5-fin-default everywhere) so each Lundquist tells you what it was designed for. If you want a quad-default Lundquist, look at the 2nd to None.

Single concave through the front two-thirds gives the lead foot a clean, loaded surface — paddle and glide. The bottom transitions through a flat-blend zone in the middle (softer than a pure modern HPSB; designed to keep speed alive through dead spots in fat SoCal surf) and finishes in soft double concave through the back third for drive off the back foot through a turn. The flat-blend zone is the Moon Shine's distinct contour element — most modern HPSBs go straight from single to double without the flat zone in between.

Standard timeline by finish tier: 4–6 weeks on a clear-sanded build, 8–10 weeks on gloss-and-polish, 6–8 weeks on tint-sanded. We lock your slot with a 25% deposit when you start the order. Blake calls when the board is in glassing for a final wax-and-polish touch-base.

The Moon Shine wants to be ridden close to your normal shortboard length for everyday SoCal, or 1–2 inches longer if you are packing it for a surf trip to better waves. We usually size up in volume (not length) for softer waves, and down in volume for overhead surf with real push. A surfer who is mostly riding waist-to-chest SoCal can split the difference upward; a surfer who is mostly chasing chest-to-head should sit closer to the lower end of their volume range.

Featured sizes are a curated set inside the 26–35 liter band — the volume range most everyday-shortboard customers shop within. The "All sizes" toggle on the spec table reveals the full 22-row catalog (4'9"–6'6"). If your dims don't fit any stock size, the Moon Shine is built to order so we can spec a custom L × W × T to your weight, stance, and the waves you're actually riding. Start the custom order and we'll go from there.

Every Lundquist board is built to order with quality materials and finished by hand. We stand by the build — if something is off when you receive the board, contact us immediately and we'll make it right. Standard surfboard wear (dings, rail compression, foot bruises) is not covered, but is part of riding the board.