Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
Two weeks ago, James was sat in his back garden eating breakfast when Ralph called. "Would it be possible to come and build a surfboard with you the week after next?" he asked, to which James replied "Of course, no problem at all". Ralph is a surveyor by profession, and was just coming towards the end of working out a months notice in one job with the strong possibility that he might end up with a spare week before starting his next position...
One of the nicest things about running our workshop experience weeks and sharing the joys of building wooden surfboards, is the people that we get to...
Luca arrived in Cornwall a few days early for his "Build-Your-Own" workshop week with us, and it turned out to be a stroke of very good timing on...
Wooden surfboards, due to the way in which they are designed, built and shaped, differ from their foam cousins in that the shape of the surfboard is...
Last week, thanks to a high pressure that sat right over the top of us bathing Cornwall in sunshine, we were able to slide the big, blue, doors wide...
On our May workshop we had the pleasure of spending a week building wooden surfboards with Kim and Shelby. A truly international couple, they are Canadian but thanks to global work commitments live in Amsterdam and were just in the process of organising moving to Japan - so their new surfboards will be well travelled by the time they eventually take them home to the west coast of British Columbia. At the end of their week with us we sat...
Back in March we were joined by Lloyd on one of our "Build-Your-Own" workshop weeks. Lloyd is a joiner by trade and so had a bit of a head start...
This week all three sets of trestles in the workshop have grown a surfboard, as Patrick, Pete and Claudio joined us to build their own. All in...
The saying goes that two’s company, three’s a crowd: We’ve had a wonderful crowd in the workshop with us this week, and luckily our...
Last Saturday we welcomed our first workshoppers into our new space. Emma, Barbara, and Chris spent the day with us producing their...
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 guiding a lovely group of people through the stages of creating their own bodysufing handplane, but in the Patagonia Store in Covent Garden, London, rather than at our workshop in Cornwall. Ben and his team had very kindly cleared a space for us amongst their winter surf range and "heritage...
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...
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 that the previous occupant had built out over the back door as a sort of lean-to. So far it's just been keeping bags of sawdust dry before they get sent off to be turned into briquettes, however this afternoon Eddy was able to enjoy a bit of fresh air as he finished sanding his new Island Hopper....
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...
