Jim Phillips Surfboards

Jim Phillips Surfboards is the label associated with shaper Jim Phillips, whose official brand statement emphasizes custom shaping and unusual stringer layouts. His account of a board built for the 2009 Billabong Art of Shaping San Diego event describes assembling 17 stringers and routing a sun motif into the blank. A 2013 Coast News profile identifies the board as Rising Sun. Phillips's event write-up records an $8,000 final bid from Rusty Preisendorfer. In a 2018 Surf Bunker interview, he recalled discovering surfing in Hawaii in 1960 and building his first kit board with substantial help from his father.