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The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The week before last we welcomed a film crew from BBC Countryfile into the workshop, who were in Cornwall producing a segment about wooden surf craft that is due to air next Sunday evening, December 15th.
Come and join us in the workshop next weekend as we and our neighbours here at Krowji open up the doors to our workshops for the Christmas Open...
Last December we delivered a 9’4” Seasaw to Dr Dan Forman in Swansea, South Wales. Dan heads up the Coastal Otters Project at Swansea...
The clocks "fall" back next weekend which means that we're at that time of year when a delicate balance can be struck. As the days become shorter...
The October issue of Cornwall Today has been out for a couple of weeks now, and those of you who may have picked up a copy based on the wonderful...
We’re closing the doors to the workshop next week (w/c Monday 16th September), loading the van and driving up to the Big Smoke. It seems that Autumn is fast become a bi-polar season for us at Otter Surfboards, divided between the empty beaches and groundswells of the South West and various events up in the capital. Next week we’ll be at 100% Design with the two projects that have been shortlisted for The Wood Awards being...
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...
You may have noticed the phrase "going off to the laminators" appear on this blog in the past. When Otter Surfboards moved from the farm into our...
We are so honoured to announce that two of our surfboard projects, The Storyboard and our One Tree collaboration with The National Trust, have been...
This weekend the annual Boardmasters Festival returns to Newquay (7th-11th). The Boardmasters has been running in one guise or another since...
This is the second blog post that we are publishing in our short "Down The Line" series, which aims to share with you (our friends, customers and followers) exactly what we do with the waste that we produce as a by-product of building hollow wooden surfboards. As we mentioned in Part 1, there is no getting away from the production of waste in any industry; in our small industry wood goes from a round shape (the tree) to rectangular...
"A man who makes things with his hands is a laborer. A man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman. But a man who works with his...
We were delighted to welcome 10xEuropean Longboard Champion Ben Skinner into the workshop this week to get started designing a wooden big wave gun...
The saying goes that it never rains, but it pours. Today feels like one of those days here because so many seeds that we have been planting over...
The last few weeks have delivered some really good waves here in the South West of the UK. In fact it's been a winter of note, which is why we've...
Every now and then you see the sort of weather chart that makes you want to drop everything and run to the coast. This weekend, bookended by bank holidays, is just one of those: A low pressure has been sat in the mid-North Atlantic all week and was as low as 950mb at one stage, pushing a good period groundswell towards the shores of Western Europe. There's also been a high over the North Sea which has been drawing in a steady easterly wind...
This week we're going to tell you about how we use walnut in our surfboards. You may have noticed how we use hardwood accent strips on the deck and...
Let us introduce you to the humble surform. Many of you may already be familiar with them, but we're going to take a closer look at this...
Stand tall and proud. Go out on a limb. Remember your roots. Drink plenty of water. Be content with your natural beauty. Enjoy the...
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