Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
Last Saturday we welcomed our first workshoppers into our new space. Emma, Barbara, and Chris spent the day with us producing their own bellyboards in anticipation of lovely summer days on the beach after such a wet, blustery, winter.
Last weekend we temporarily relocated our workshop. For one day, on Saturday, we did what we normally do and covered the floor with sawdust whilst...
We're heading back up to London, but this time we're loading our tool kit and a stack of timber into the back of the van ready to put on a...
Kingsley's just finished off his "Desert" Island Hopper after a week of hard work, fuelled by lots of cups of tea. He's really pleased with his...
A few changes have been afoot at Otter Surfboards this week…if you browse around our site you'll see that the first of the Autumnal updates have...
"We very nearly spent the week sleeping on a boat off the south coast, but unfortunately it was sold just a few weeks ago" Tim replied when asked where he would be staying this week whilst building a 9'4" Seasaw with us. As it is, he is camping with his family above Gwithian Beach and cycling the coast road along to our workshops at Krowji in the grounds of the old Redruth Grammar School each day, leaving his wife and five year old twins to...
The awning was already here when we moved in to the workshop here at Krowji; a few lengths of 2"x4" with some clear plastic tarpaulin pinned to it...
This afternoon Glenn Bowker carefully lined up an inked rubber stamp, paused to take a breath, and then pressed it firmly down onto the deck of the...
It's Friday afternoon which means both blog-time and also, during "build-your-own" workshop weeks, the culmination of a week's hard work and the...
This past week has been a busy one in the workshop here at Otter surfboards, and it's been absolutely brilliant. We've been running another one of...
Ordinarily, it takes a few weeks for us to work our way through the various stages in constructing a wooden surfboard, as we usually have several on the go at any one time in various stages of construction. But back at the end of August we held a “Build-Your-Own” workshop week and watched as two surfboards grew on their trestles right before our eyes over the course of just five days. What started off as a stack of ribs, rail strips and...
