My name is Brock Jones. I am a second-generation surfboard shaper and son of the late surfboard shaper, Bruce Jones. I grew up in Long Beach, CA tucked between Alamitos Bay and the Pacific Ocean. I spent my youth and young-adult life on the beach, in the water and in-and-out of my father's shaping room, glass shop and surf shop. I shaped my first boards with my father when I was about 10 and began apprenticing under him when I graduated from university in 2010. The time I spent observing & working with him gave me a unique look into his experience as a craftsman. I took away from it a deep respect for & understanding of the way he designed and built surfboards throughout his 50+ year career. I want my career as a shaper to be an homage to that craft heritage.

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Photo: Simon Ford

 The Jackie Baxter Model is a mid/late 60s board that my dad shaped and designed for Jackie Baxter while at Vardeman Surfboards. It has all the hallmarks of a longboard attempting to transition into what (unbeknownst to dad & others at the time) would become the shortboard era: more progressive rocker, displacement, more foiled contours, rake fin and an overall sleeker outline than the type of board my dad began his career with. These features collectively represent much of my favorite period in surfing history, which I avidly incorporate in my own design.

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