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Lady Bird Surfboards
1983
Kenny Hill 
La Jolla Surfboards
1972
PO Box 47, Brookvale.




Spirit of Brotherhood, circa 1973.

Laguna Bay Longboards
Noosa Surf Works
https://noosasurfworks.com.au/pages/history-2
2000?
Tully St John



Lane Surfboards
? Adelaide, South Australia
1979
Lane Habib
Greg Frost

Lane decal forwarded from bruce w., Novemmber 2013, wuth thanks.


Larkin Surfboards
1961
28 Miles Street, Kirra Qld
See: Joe Larkin Surfboards


Lee and Donoghoe Surfboards 
Newcastle?
1970?
Phil Donoghoe and Roy Lee
Thanks to Snazzy, January 2019.


Lee Riley Surfboards 
Avalon
1975
Mona Vale, NSW.
Phone: 997-4130
1988
Lee Riley


Thanks to Snazzy, January 2019.

 

Lennox Underground Surfboards 
1978
Lennox Head NSW
Phil Myers
Decal image courtesy of Issac Flint, Ballina May 2009.

Len Dibben Surfboards
North Freemantle WA
1958 
Len Dibben - Hollow plywood Okinuees
1960 
Foam and fibreglass
1979
and Andy Berlach, Colin Ladhams and Chris Fullston ;

Advertisement: Surf International Vol. 2. No. 5  page6.

Decal image: Len's Surf Shoppe, circa 1970.

Supplied by Ken G., July 2009.

Photograph:Len Dibben and employees with current models, circa 1968.Note previous popular model (wide tailed Vee bottom), extreme left.
Image by Dibben Family collection,
reprinted in Australian Longboarding Magazine
Number 2 Winter 1988 page 21
Reported, with thanks, by Saxon June 2003...
Hydroplane Stingers were made extensively by Len Dibben (Surfboards) in Perth in the seventies.
I have seen the photo albums to prove it.

Below: Len Dibben decals, circa 1973 and 1977.

        



         



  
1974 decals courtesy of Yoann, February 2018
 
Styled by Len Didden, 1968. Thanks to Snazzy.

Len Didden Handcrafted and Bomb, 1989. Thanks to Paul Denboer, May 2021.









Lennox Underground Surfboards 
Lennox Head NSW
1975
Tony Cerff, Gunther Rohn & Bob McTavish

Noted: Swallow-tail stinger with amateur repaired leg-rope gashes, no shaper.
Phil Myers
Decal image courtesy of Issac Flint, Ballina May 2009.
1992
Chris Brock Moving Curves




1998

       



Les Purcell Surf Design
Maroochydore Qld
1974 - 1995
Les Purcell
1978
Erle Pederson (Kneeboards)

Shaping history submitted, with thanks, by Les Purcell, April 23, 2003.

I started my shaping for Woosley Surfboards in Kelvingrove Brisbane in 1968.
Then I journeyed south  and shaped for Atlas Surfboards in Melbourne 1969.
Then John Arnold in Adelaide in 1969.
My journey then took me back home to Queensland and  next I shaped for Connexion Surfboards in Caloundra during 1970 which was owned by Greg Clough.
From there I shaped at Adlers Surf Centre in Wooloongabba in Brisbane from 1970 to late 1973.
In 1974 I opened the Les Purcell Design Surfboards.
Retired from my shaping winter of 1995 for the time-being...
These manufacturers have been added to or amended in the Manufacturer/Shaper Index.

Les added...

There are a few shapers I did not see (in the M/S Index) who are credible..
1. Tony Biltoft who owned Nalu Surfboards, in Brisbane 1972 to 1973 when he died.
There was a Memorial Contest for him for many years following.
 
2. Kent Manning of Sunshine Coast and
Kent Manning worked at Hayden Surfboards, 1979.
 
3. Darryl Bolger  of the Gold Coast
Darryl Bolger worked at Darby Surfboards, Currumbin Qld, 1979, and Local Knowledge Surfboards, 1991.




 





 
Les Purcell decals 1989, thanks to Snazzy, March 2019.











LPD (Les Purcell Designs), 1985.



Lewis Surfboards
Hastings Drive, Port Macquarie, NSW
1974
[John] Lewis

Decal contributed by snazzy.

Libertyl Surfboards
Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Phone: 0411-246-118

1988
Rod Morgan


Lightfoot International Surfboards
Melbourne
Phone: 45-2423

1964

Decal courtesy of Snazzy, 2019:
Logo from an old mal dating from 1962-1964


Lightning Bolt (Hawaii) Surfboards
1972
Noted:
7ft 2'' Barry Kanaiapuni, 1974,  Brewer wide based pivot fin, marbled resin work with resin pin-lines and bolts, possibly to the work of master glasser Roy Stamm.



6ft 6" Rounded square-tail Jeff Hakman design shaped by Tom Parrish, 1976?

   


Lightning Bolt (Australia) Surfboards
Made under licence.
1975
Jim Beardsley
1980

Doug Bell
Stuart Cadden, noted rounded pintail twin fin.
1982
Greg Clough
Ian Goodacre
Ed Sinnot

Also see Star Bolt Surfboards




1986



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Light Surfboards

Coffs Harbor NSW
1977
Chris Horne
Lime Lines Surfboards

Shoalhaven Heads NSW
1990
Mark Jameson 
Limited Edition Surfboards

Shoalhaven Heads NSW
1986
Mark Jameson

Line Up Surfboards
1990
Dee Why?
Geoff Horner




Lip Sticks Surfboards
PO Box 56 Whangarrata (South Australia?)
1987
Michael Organ



Lip Stix Surfboards
South Australia
1978
Rod Weasel Bedford
Rip'N'Tear by Lip StixTwin-fin


Lip Stix, 1980


Lip Stix, 1985


Decals thanks to Snazzy, December 2019.
 








 




Liquid Drive Surfboards
Bulli, NSW
1978
Theo Happel 
Liquid Horizon Surfboards
?
1976
David Hanlon

Littoral Expression Surfboards
?
1975

Partial decal image courtesy of TomTom2, April 2014.


Lightning Bolt Surfboards Australia
1977
513 Nepean Highway, Bonbeach, (Victoria)
772-6630







Lightning Bolt Surfboards Australia
1978

Made under licence by Aloha Surfboards
Brookvale
Shaped by Greg Clough
S
haped by Stuart Campbell.

   

Liquid Lips Surfboards
??
1982
Geoff Gibson.

Four fin model,1986.


Liquid Fusion Surfboards
Victoria?
1986
Peter Young
Noted: Quad fin
 

Liquid Powered Surfboards
1979
Victoria?

Live Wire Surfboards
Bryon Bay
1978
Des Delaney
 

Living Water Surfboards
Main Beach, Queensland
Phone: 38-8040
1983

Nick Masarion.
Peter Miller
Living Water is taken from the New Testament, one of several Christian centered companies in the mid-1980s.
Also see Christie Surfboards.


Living Water, red,1983.

Living Water, blue, 1983.

Living Water: Prince of Peace, 1978.



1992, decal thanks to Paul Gallagher, June 2021.



Living Water,
1980.
 
Living Water, 1984.

Living Water Circle
, 1986.
-
contributed with thanks by snazzy, April 2015.


Local Knowledge Surfboards
North Kirra, Queensland.
1979
Steve ‘Zorro’ Goddard.
Decal image from Noddy H., May 2014.
1982
Neal Purchase, Steve ‘Zorro’ Goddard Tri-Fin Model
1984
Alan Kempnich
1986
Nev Hyman
1989
Ken Reimers, Phil Murray;
1990
Warren Cornish
1990
Rob Webster, Darryl Bolger
1997
Darren Handley



      

 


1986
, decal thanks to Snazzy, June 2019.
 








 



Local Motion Australia Surfboards
1987
Byron Bay
Gunther Rohn, Brian Ingram ,Tony Cerff,


1995
Ricky Carroll

1998
Phil Myers


   

Lomas Surfboards
?
1974
Noted: 4ft 9" spooned deck knee board with glue-line stringer



Loose in the Juice (Surfboards) by Wayne Lynch
Lorne, Victoria?
1977. 
Wayne Lynch


Lorne Surf Shop (Surfboards) 
Lorne, Victoria. 
1975
Wayne Lynch and #383
1976. 

Michael Anthony
See Ocean Road Surfboards






Los Angles Ladder Co.
California
1935
Tom Blake Model

Lowery Surfboards
Phillip Island, Victoria.
7 James Street, Aspendale, Victoria.
circa 1968
Richard Lowery


 


Luke Short Design - LSD Surfboards
circa 1994
???

2000?
Buzz Shapes


 

Ludwig Surfboards
circa 1988
???


Lumpy Surfboards
circa 1963
South Australia, Victoria???

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