Free surfboard SVG files

Stripes that stop inside the rails

A stripe that ran right across a board would cut it in two. On these boards every band, flower and stringer line stops short of the edge, leaving a rail of about 2.5 mm all round when the board is 100 mm long, so each one lifts as a single piece. Put a second colour behind the cut-outs and the stripes show through.

A surfboard is long and narrow, about a quarter as wide as it is long, so it fits places other shapes do not: the spine of a notebook, the side of a tumbler, a bookmark, a keyring. For small work use the silhouette or the striped boards. The hibiscus board has petals between 4 and 6 mm long at 100 mm and is best cut at that size or larger.

Standing boards and scenes

The silhouette stands in a mound of sand on a flat base with one fin showing, so it sits level in a layered beach scene or along the bottom edge of a sign. The three boards in the sand and the two beach chairs do the same job at a larger size. The name sign is a wide longboard lying level, with bands at each end and the middle left blank for a family name or a house name. Cut it from plywood at 400 mm or more for a porch.

How to open the files

• Cricut Design Space: choose Upload, pick the SVG, and add it to the canvas. Set the width you want; the shape is already welded.
• Silhouette Studio: Designer Edition and above open the SVG. The free Basic Edition does not, so open the DXF instead.
• LightBurn, xTool Creative Space and Glowforge: import the SVG, then set the layer to cut, score or engrave.
• Inkscape, Illustrator and Affinity: open the SVG. It is a plain filled path, so you can recolour it, add a stroke or combine it with your own work.
• Printing or sublimation: use the PNG, which has a transparent background.

Each design page lists the file’s narrowest part at seven sizes, so you can tell whether it will survive at the size you plan to cut.

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