2/14 Nuban St · Currumbin Waters
The Workshop
One factory on the southern Gold Coast where every Cross Design board is shaped, glassed, sprayed and finished, and every repair is done. By hand, by Joe Webb, head shaper.
Foam blank to finished board, without leaving the building.
Joe picked up the keys to the new factory in June 2026, six years after Cross Design began. Shaping, glassing, colour, fins and repairs now share one roof, and the person who greets you at the door is the person who does the work.
The shaping bay
Every custom starts here as a foam blank, PU or EPS.
The outline is marked in pencil against a steel rule and cut. Then the power planer takes the deck and bottom down to thickness and rocker, the rails are turned with a surform and sanding blocks, and every curve is checked by eye and by hand under the side lights.
Glassing
Where shaped foam becomes a surfboard.
Cloth is laid over the blank, wet out with resin and wrapped onto the rails as a lap, one side and then the other. Epoxy for EPS, polyester for PU. Tints and swirls go into the resin here, then the hot coat, the sand, and a matt or polished gloss finish.
Paint and spray
Colour mixed by hand, to the board in front of Joe, not to a chart.
Decals and pin lines are taped out on the bench before the spray gun comes out. Custom sprays and fades on new boards, full resprays and colour matched repairs on old ones, gelcoat on boats and Jet Skis. All of it sprayed in-house, in the spray booth at Nuban St.
The fin bench
A lay-up area of its own, with a lit table.
Joe lays up fibreglass panels here, up to 38 layers thick, and tints the resin to a Pantone colour. Each fin is marked from a timber template, checked with calipers, cut, then foiled by hand in the vice and signed.
“New fin lay-up area!”
The same hands shape your board and fix your ding.
The repair bay
Big enough to bring a boat in on its trailer.
Surfboards, longboards, soft tops, SLSC craft, skis and paddles, Jet Skis and boats. There is a printed job sheet on the counter for each kind of craft, and every repair is colour matched by the same person who shapes the boards.
“Every repair is completed by me, right here in our Currumbin Waters workshop.”
The design studio
Joe trained as an architect at Bond University, and a Cross Design board starts the way a building does: as a drawing. Outlines are sketched in the notebook, then measured onto the blank.
Every board leaves the workshop with its own hand-drawn product description.
Films from the bay
Short films from the shaping stands, the glassing bench, the spray gun and the fin vice. Drag to see more, tap one to watch it on Instagram.
- A session in the shaping bayFilm: @tiggs_shot_that
- Glassing the Blade for Zac@crossdesign.online
- Fresh sprayed railsRepairs highlight
- Polishing a custom finFins highlight
- A glass-on fin for a restorationRepairs highlight
- Repairs in full swingRepairs highlight
- Boat work at the factoryBoats highlight
- ‘Mother’, Guided By Nature seriesWith @demiroseallaway
Visit the workshop
2/14 Nuban St, Currumbin Waters, on the southern Gold Coast.
Walk-ins welcome. Come and see the boards on the rack, talk through a custom or bring in a ding. Marley, the shop dog, will probably say hello first.
| Monday to Friday | 9am to 4:30pm |
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| Saturday | 9am to 12pm |
| Sunday | Closed |
Contact 24/7, 7 days a week.
Made and mended here: custom surfboards, custom fins, paint and resprays, repairs. Everything Joe does.
