Only the best
QUALITY WILL DO RHINO LAMINATING FOUNDING ETHOS: “THE LOVE OF A BEAUTIFULLY CRAFTED AND DESIGNED SURFBOARD” THIS INSPIRATION LED JUAN TWYCROSS TO CREATE A FIRST CLASS GLASSING FACILITY FOR SHAPERS OF ALL TYPES OF DESIGNS AND FINISHES. FROM THE HIGH-PERFORMANCE SHORT BOARDS WITH LIGHT WEIGHT GLASSING AND CRISP SANDING, TO THE STUNNING TINTS AND PIGMENTS WITH CUT LAPS AND POLISHES TO HIGHLIGHT THEIR NATURAL BEAUTY. RHINO HAS SET ABOUT GIVING EVERY BOARD THE BEST GLASSING POSSIBLE BY USING ONLY THE HIGHEST QUALITY MATERIALS AND CRAFTSMANSHIP AVAILABLE IN THE SURFBOARD INDUSTRY TODAY. THIS IS WHAT ALL GREAT SHAPES DESERVE AND WHAT EVERY CUSTOMER WANTS.
36
Beaches COVERED. caught up with Juan to find out how Brookvale has the best glass-house in the country right in our backyard. Q. From the early days, how has surfing nurtured your life? I was born at Southport on the Gold Coast and enjoyed early years with Dad taking us to the beach every day after he finished work. Dad was a keen West Australian surfer who moved to Gold Coast when he married Mum. We moved to Brisbane for all of my school years but I still remember having car trips back to the Gold Coast, to surf Greenmount and Rainbow Bay on most weekends. My first wave was around 7 or 8 years old on an old cordingley single fin of Dad’s at Rainbow Bay. Q. When did glassing surfboards become your career? The family moved to Lennox Heads when I was about 17, around 1995. I started some basic board making and general fibreglass work in a factory with Dad, mainly making airplane struts for planes.
The factory was in Ballina just over the road from Bob McTavish surfboards. The polisher at Northcoast surfboards had broken his arm and back then, most boards they made had to be polished. They needed another polisher urgently and Bob put my name forth to give me a go and from that moment on, I was making surfboards full time. I moved to Sydney in 1996 and found work making boards with Rod Dalgleish
