Our new surfboard factory in Currumbin Waters
In June 2026 Joe picked up the keys to 2/14 Nuban St with his daughter Cove beside him. Here is what is inside, and why the door is open.
Cross Design’s surfboard factory is now at 2/14 Nuban Street, Currumbin Waters, on the southern Gold Coast. Joe picked up the keys in June 2026, and every custom board is now shaped there and every repair is done there, by him. You can walk in during opening hours, no booking needed.
This is a short tour for anyone who has not been in yet: what the building is, what happens in it, and what to expect when you walk through the roller door.
Six years to get here
Cross Design started in 2020. Before Nuban Street, Joe shaped and repaired boards from a factory at 2/88 Township Drive in Burleigh Heads. In late September 2026 Junkyard Surf summed the move up in its Shaper of the Week feature: six years of building and repairing boards has led to his own factory in Currumbin Waters.
The day he got the keys, Joe wrote this:
“What started as a passion for shaping surfboards has grown into something much bigger, and I couldn’t be more grateful for everyone who has supported us along the way.”
And a little further down the same post:
“It’s a place where ideas will come to life, boards will be shaped, restorations will be completed, and new stories will begin.”
He signed it off the way he signs most things off: “Cross marks the spot.”
What is inside
The fit-out went up through June, and Joe posted most of it as it happened: framing, the office coming together (with Cove as “the most efficient little helper”), and then the finished factory and a story captioned “Repairs in full swing!”
What you will find now:
- A shaping bay. Every custom is hand shaped here, from the blank to the finished outline.
- Glassing, colour and sanding under the same roof. A board does not leave the building between the foam and the final finish.
- A repair area for surfboards, longboards, soft tops, surf lifesaving craft, Jet Skis and boats.
- A fin lay-up area with its own lit table, where Joe lays up fibreglass fin panels and cuts fins from them.
- Finished boards to pick up and look at, plus the clothing, Cd fins and Sex Wax.
- Marley, the shop dog.
One person does the work
The thing people tend to notice first is that the person who greets you is the person who will do the job. Joe shapes the boards, glasses them and repairs them. As he put it when he listed the repair services in June:
“Every repair is completed by me, right here in our Currumbin Waters workshop using professional materials and techniques built to last.”
That matters more than it sounds. If you are ordering a custom, the conversation you have at the counter goes straight into the shape, with nobody in between to lose the detail. If you are dropping off a repair, the person looking at your ding builds boards for a living and knows what is under the glass.
What we do here
The full list, as it stands at the new factory. There is a single page with all of it on everything we do.
- Custom surfboards, from the Blade and the fish through the mid-lengths to the Nude | Longboard, all made to order.
- Surfboard repairs and restorations: dings, creases, snaps, fin boxes, resprays and full restorations of older boards.
- Boat repairs and Jet Ski repairs: gelcoat, cracks, impact damage and structural fibreglass work.
- Paint and resprays, and colour matching on every repair.
- Surf lifesaving craft, carbon fibre repairs and insurance repairs.
- Custom fins, made in house.
Junkyard Surf put the workshop side of it simply: shaping, glassing, colour work and repairs all happen in Joe’s workshop, and everyone is welcome to drop by for a chat. That feature and our other mentions are on the press page.
Good company
Currumbin Waters is a surfboard building suburb. There are other shapers and a shaping supplies business close to Nuban Street, which tells you something about the area. It means the people who walk in usually know what a good board looks like.
What we think is different about our door is the mix. It is one workshop where you can order a board built around how you surf, have the ding in your current one fixed while you wait for it, and ask about the crack in your boat’s hull at the same time.
Dropping in
You do not need to book. The shop hours are Monday to Friday 9am to 4:30pm and Saturday 9am to 12pm, and you can contact Joe 24/7, 7 days a week. Bring the board, or text a photo of the damage to 0422 435 689 for a free quote. For a custom, the first chat is free and there is no pressure to order: come and look at the outlines, pick up a few boards, and tell Joe how and where you surf.
The details are on the contact page. If you want to know a bit more about who you will be talking to, Joe’s story is here.
It took six years to get the keys to this place. We would like you to see it.
