Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
A couple of weeks ago we had the magical experience of bellyboarding with a dolphin! Since then some friends at the British Divers Marine Life Rescue have been in touch, to tell us some important information about social solitary dolphins, and we thought we should share...
Summer is well and truly here! We were blessed with amazing sunny weather in June and just enough swell to keep our lovely Monday morning dips going...
Last year we received a call from Mike at Birkenstock, asking us if we would like to make a wooden surfboard for them and collaborate on a film, safe...
This year, on the summer solstice, James thought it would be nice to enjoy the ocean at sunrise and sunset and try to capture the state of the sea...
Yup, we have a boring white van and need help... We want to reach out to our network of talented creative folks to help us make it more...
At the start of June we were joined in our workshop by Bob, Bob and Burt. Good friends for the last 20 years, they usually meet up for surf trips abroad, but this time they decided to come to Porthtowan and make their own wooden surfboards…
Back in April we were visited by Anna and Sebastian who were on a surf trip of the UK to promote their company, Sieve Recycled Plastics. They showed...
Summer is here! And so are summer waves, so for the most part we have enjoyed sliding around on our bellys the past few weeks, save for a pretty...
Last week we welcomed 3 new workshoppers through our big blue doors… Steve, Arthur and Sophia joined us for the week to make their own...
A couple of weeks ago, we opened our big blue doors to the surfing community for the first time in 3 years! We were joined by pro surfer Alan Stokes...
As the weather here in Cornwall warms up and summer approaches, we are enjoying a fun run of surfboard workshops. Here's how the latest 3 workshoppers to walk through our big blue doors got on last week…
Mike came to the workshop a couple of years ago with his eldest son to make their own wooden surfboards, so thought it was only fair to bring his...
On the 20th of May come and join us for an entertaining evening with Alan Stokes, where he will be talking about his life in surfing with James, and...
We've had a whole range of conditions these past few Mondays, from chunky, hollow, offshore bombs, to tiny, shallow, perfect peelers, so lets take a...
The ultimate combination of sun, swell and favourable winds welcomed Lee, Mark and Ethan to Porthtowan for a week of making. Here’s how they got...
During our wooden surfboard workshop experiences, we often get asked how we make the 'skins' for the top and bottom of our surfboards, well - here is a detailed video from our man Chris explaining the entire process... If you would like to join us to make your own wooden surfboard click here.
Danny is a good friend of ours. We have known him since 2015, when he came to make his own handplane with us and, since then, we have stayed in...
March has been a pretty good month for surf at the bottom of the hill, we have had swell rolling in and offshore winds greeting us at the beach for...
Last week the workshop was filled with sawdust, interesting stories and good coffee as we were joined by James, Nick and Alessandro, who came to make...
