Carl Schaper started surfing at the age of 13.
on the East Coast in Virgina Beach and eventually ended up in to Cocoa Beach, Florida. At 17, he built his first surfboard in his garage in Satellite Beach in 1974.
At 18, he landed his first surfboard job at Dick Catri's finishing boards and shaping on the side. He was fortunate enough to be working with some of the biggest names on the east coast like Freddy Grosskreutz, Larry Pope, Tommy Maus and Bob Tomb. Tomb was the shaper of Tomb and Reeves. The same Jack Reeves that is still finishing out beautiful work in the North Shore of Hawaii.
From Florida, he hit the road and went cross country to end up in California working for Greg Martz at Waterman's Guild. He was glasssing up to a 100 boards a week for the likes of Channel Islands and Rusty. Carl also was able to learn more about shaping from in house shapers, Bob Hurley and Steve Rex.
His quest for waves landed him in Puerto Rico from 1978-1983. Great times were to be had surfing Puerto Rico's north shore many days with just him, Lightning Bolt's touring pro Edwin Santos, and Jesse Fernandez, now a shaper for WRV. He started his first label, Jobos Underground, in Puerto Rico in 1980. Being a big fan of twin fins, Carl built his first quad in '81 after seeing the first tri-fin coming back from Hawaii. The tri-fin was an innovation for the time period since surfers only rode single and twin fins. Only the Campbell brothers were on to the multi-fin boards prior to this time.
In 1984 he was back in Florida and landed at Spectrum Surfboards where he gained valuable knowledge from Rick Bullock who had just returned from Hawaii. While at Spectum, Carl shaped for up and coming local surfers some of them being: big wave charger Trip Freeman, John Holeman (the original air master from the area), Shea and Cory Lopez and Bill Johnson (National Amatuer Title.) Bill eventually went on to become a legendary shaper in his own right and is well known for his work with the Hobgood brothers.
In 1986, he couldn't take the cold water, so he headed back to Florida with the intent to move back to Puerto Rico. As luck would have it, Carl ended up in Hawaii instead doing work for George and Keone Downing, Blue Hawaii and Local Motion. 
He later fell into the shaping gig at Straight UP with Kaui Hill. There he got to work with Occy who ended up riding his boards for a few years, culminating in him being on the cover of the movie, The Green Iguana.
On that same board, Occy got fired up on competing again which led him to eventually capture the world title although by that time he was with different sponsor.
Today, Carl can be found on the North Shore of Oahu doing what he has done all of his life - building quality surfboards, and catching some surf.
