In store, MC also stocks an extensive range of softboards and surf accessories including Carver Surfboard Racks and his wife Toshie’s very own range of surf hats called Protecsun - surf hats that stay on with a brim design that enables surfers to duck-dive with ease.
Shortboards, longboards, all types of fish boards; dart fish, speed fish, big boys fish, Danny Wills signature models, Bob Cooper Blue Machine longboards, fun boards, lip hit shortboards, mini mals, Hawaiian guns, retro surfboards, kneeboards, balsa longboards and even Sail Skee sailboats... Michael Cundith shapes pretty much any type of watercraft. He's a master craftsman and an innovative watercraft designer who, after all these years, is still constantly refining and improving his designs. Yes, he shapes everything and anything and he excels at it.
For the friendly service and Michael's wealth of knowledge alone it's worth a visit, but it'll be hard to leave without a board under your arm.
With over 50 years of shaping experience, Michael along with his good friend George Greenough, can certainly lay claim to being one of the pioneers of modern shortboards.
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ABOVE: Wilderness Surfboards in the '60s
Michael, with his wife Toshie and their two boys ‌.. together run Byron Bay Surfboards. It's a family business and it shows. They're lovely people who all live and breathe surfing, and will help you to no end in finding the right board. They stand behind their product because the quality of their craftsmanship is beyond question.
His story dates back to when at only 12, riding an inflatable air mat he discovered a love for riding waves. At age 13 he had acquired a longboard and had started to cut the rails off, peeling back the glass to reshape his board so it was easier for him to carry. By the time he was 16 he was totally involved with surfboard design and has been shaping full time since. For the history buffs out there, he was the founder of the famous Wilderness Surfboards in Santa Barbara and made George Greenough Stubbies. In the 60's he was part of the second wave of surfers to be part of the Santa Barbara County Surf Club - surf custodians of the legendary Hollister Ranch. Later on he moved to Australia shaping boards with Bob Cooper in Coffs Harbour and worked for San Juan with Nat Young. Following that, he shaped boards with Kevin Platt in Noosa before returning to Byron to shape for Sky Surfboards in the very same factory he's in today, only nowadays the business is his own.
Rest assured in the board you order from Michael Cundith. He thinks, dreams and lives surfboards. And he's also an innovative designer of surfboards fins.
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3 Banksia Drive 02 6685 8778
www.mcsurf.com.au
ABOVE: MC cutback on the original Stubbie and BELOW & RIGHT: Gene Cundith and the Stubbie of today
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