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Balsa Wood In addition to its use in the Parabolic Stringer, Balsa Wood is used on our decks and bottoms as a sandwich material. Read the Full Story
Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) Our Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) foam is made up of small Styrofoam like balls. This EPS foam is very light; even the foam in Pro weight PU boards weighs about 3 or 4 times more. This allows us to create some of the lightest surfboards on the planet. Read the Full Story
Epoxy Resin We use epoxy resin as a ‘glue’ to laminate components such as EPS foam, fiberglass and balsa wood together. With longer chemical bonds than polyester resin that is used in traditional PU surfboards, epoxy laminated fiberglass can bend further before it starts to fracture. This means stronger surfboards. Read the Full Story
Parabolic Stringer
Since 1991 Sunova has wrapped the entire outline of each of our ‘woodies’ in a half inch of balsa wood, giving us the parabolic rail, or the parabolic stringer as some people prefer to call it.  This creates a timber frame which allows our boards to bend and importantly, twist through turns and spring back with incredible liveliness. Read the Full Story

Balsa Wood

In addition to its use in the Parabolic Stringer, Balsa Wood is used on our decks and bottoms as a sandwich material. With the highest strength to weight ratio of any wood, and nearly the lightest wood on the planet, Balsa can create space between layers of fiberglass (by being sandwiched between them) without adding much weight to the board.Our full Balsa skinned surfboards feel alive and sensitive with a very natural flex and instant flex return. Balsa has individual patterns and grain meaning no timber skinned boards will look the same. Strength and long term durability are also at their greatest with timber