Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
James first met Hannah and Justin Floyd at last year’s DO Lectures in West Wales, where they were part of the team of volunteers helping the event to run smoothly. Hannah and Justin are from Buckfastleigh in Devon, a town that was once the centre of a thriving woolen industry but which has since declined as demand for the coarse wool of upland hill sheep to make carpets has fallen when the local factory closed. Much of that wool is now...
Exploring the broad spectrum of worldwide contemporary surf culture, the team behind Gestalten’s latest offering, a heavy coffee table book...
This last week the British Ecological Society’s Journal of Ecology published some research that spells out a bleak future for British woodlands; a...
We’re excited to share with you this week the news that, this spring, we’ll be heading up to Surf Snowdonia in North Wales to run a week-long...
The roof of our workshop has been a bit noisier than usual this past week. That’s because when it wasn’t drilling down with rain, we could hear...
As the New Year begins, it’s nice to take a moment to reflect upon everything that happened over the past twelve months. We think that applies to every individual; the New Year is a natural point at which to pause and reflect. We like to do it as a company, and so this week we’d like to share with you ten of our high points from 2015:
Well, Christmas Eve has well and truly crept up on us again following a flurry of activity throughout December. We’d like to wish all of you a very...
Wastage is something that we avoid at all costs, and that is a sentiment shared by our friends over at Riz Boardshorts, who produce beautiful printed...
Next weekend, we’re loading up the van and driving up to London for a rather special event. We’ve been invited by the team behind the Do Lectures...
365 days;12 months; four seasons; one year. We all need a bit of help organising our time and remembering important dates and events, be it a...
For the past couple of years, our friends over the hill at Finisterre have been working on developing a wetsuit designed specifically for surfing in cold water environments.
What a week it’s been; this time last week a coach load of surfers, including three-times world surfing champion Tom Curren, big wave surfers...
Ben Cook has been a friend of ours for a good few years now, and we often meet up to ride waves with him when we head to surf spots on the coastline...
Following an exhaustive period of research and development (which you can translate as us making a surfboard and riding it as often as we could...
Tealing We’d like to introduce all of you to The Coaster, the latest addition to our range and a surfboard that we’ve been struggling to keep...
Last Saturday, James and Liz became Mr and Mrs Otter. Hooray!
In the mid-nineties, an ex-pat Aussie lifeguard residing in Hawaii named Andy Cochran started to develop a new type of swim fin. His aim was to...
It's often been said when trying to describe the sensation of getting barrelled that "time slows down in the tube". We think that time slows down...
A few weeks ago Chris arrived at the workshop to spend a week helping us machine timber in preparation for a "Make-Your-Own" wooden surfboard course,...
