In this episode of Every Third Thursday, the Signal team, including Jake Olsen-Elm, Brandon Larson, Dan Liedahl and Cody Beiersdorf (aka the Crete crew), are given the opportunity to design and build their own boards. There’s nothing overly crazy in what they come up with, although we do get some weird and wonderful shapes, including Jake O-E’s rad bomber board with a vicious looking ‘spork’-esque tail and Brandon Larson’s old school cruiser inspired deck. It’s also cool to see more of the fundamental manufacturing processes, including changing up the flex with different types of fibreglass and the printing of graphics, which are often skipped over when there are more wacky concepts in the mix.

What would YOU come up with if you had a day to build exactly what you wanted in the Signal factory? How about a board with an Ipad in it perhaps? Or a shreddable ghetto blaster? How about a snowboard that also doubles up as a surfboard? Well, unfortunately all of those ideas have already come to fruition so you’d have to be a little more creative than that! Personally, we were thinking something along the lines of this…