Arvin’s Bellyboard Making Workshop

Our workshop is based at Mount Pleasant Eco Park, along with other workshops there is also a cafe, event space and camping facilities, which is how Arvin stumbled across us. Peeking in through our big blue doors on his way to walk the South West Coast path, he asked whether we had any time free for him to come and make a bellyboard with us.

We booked a day a week or so later when Arvin was back from his walk, that just so happened to be during one of our surfboard making weeks, when we would have the workshop ready for him to join us and it would also give us time to prepare a bellyboard blank for him to cut out and shape.

Arvin chose the Performance shape, which is designed for extra hold in steeper waves, before drawing around the template and cutting it out, with the next stages involving the round over using planes and rasps followed by sanding to a finish.

We sent Arvin off with a bottle of Tung oil which he would need to rub into the board, applying a few coats before taking it for the first dip in the sea!