Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
We love speding time with our customers in the workshop, sharing the experience and excitement of making wooden surfboards with your own hands over five days and often, we develop friendships too. A few weeks later, our workshoppers come to collect their finished surfboards and head out into the world for a lifetime of waves. Sometimes, we're lucky enough to see them again at our Annual Gathering of Makers that we host each year, and can...
Here's James to take you through how we prepare for the top of our wooden surfboards to be glued down, a huge moment!
On Monday we were joined by Andrew, Helena and Andrew who are spending the week making their own wooden surfboards with us!
A few weeks ago we were joined by Will, Matt and Adam who had come to make their own wooden surfboards, here's how they got on...
Here's the latest instalment of the series showing how we make our wooden surfboards, we hope you enjoy!
Christopher dropped in this week to pick up the wooden surfboard he made with us back in May...
Follow Adam, Will and Matt throughout the week as they make their own wooden surfboards...
Last week Wim joined us to make his own wooden surfboard, check out how he got on!
Last week Ben, Eleanor and Christopher joined us to make their own wooden surfboards, check out how they got on...
3 new workshoppers are at the trestles this week as Ben, Eleanor and Christopher make their own wooden surfboards, check out how they are getting on!
Welcome to part 3 of our new series, here James shows how we build up the rails of our wooden surfboards...
Before we can start making the rails of our hollow wooden surfboards, we need to process the planks that rest outside our workshop into thin strips,...
Here's part 2 of our new series, we hope you enjoy!
Nick joined us for 5 days to make his very own wooden surfboard, here's how he got on...
Last Saturday we welcomed three new people to our monthly workshop to make their own bodysurfing handplanes...
Welcome to part one of a new series, which will show in detail each step of how we make hollow wooden surfboards...
It's been another fun year at Otter Surfboards, here are some of our favourite moments...
Welcome to the final part of our Why Wood? series, here's James to tell you more...
Welcome to our latest workshopper profile piece. This time it's featuring Matt who has made not one, but two wooden surfboards with us!
