Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
As autumn beds in here in the UK, the attention of many surfers, both here and across Europe, turns to southwest France. Whilst Californians have the border hop to Baja as a coming of age surf trip, for many British surfers catching the ferry to France is more than just a rite of passage and is more of a long-term relationship. Our Mat is one of those surfers who’s made that return journey many times, in many ways. As we get deeper into...
For the second of our August “Make Your Own Wooden Surfboard” workshops, we were joined by Matt and Henry. Matt runs a company that designs...
Last Saturday we welcomed back a large cast of our “workshopper” family for our 2019 Annual Gathering of Makers when we gather together for a...
Purchase a Woden Surf Flower Print Here. Our Annual Gathering of Makers event has come, over the years, to feature an exhibition of artworks...
Our first August wooden surfboard workshop was a special one, not least because we had three 7’2” Coasters on the trestles here. We were...
At the start of the summer, just as the days were starting to draw out but the evenings were still cold as the sun set, James was invited to speak at Talisker’s Wilderness Bar. Perched on the edge of a high cliff on the North Devon coast, Talisker (a whisky distillery on the Isle of Skye) had set up their incredible copper Wilderness Bar for an evening of talks around the campfire. James had been invited to share his story with the...
More often than not, when the waves are good and we arrive at our local beach before sunrise to surf before work, we end up parked next to and...
In the second episode of our Boardrack Briefing series, James talks about the smallest fish model in our range of hollow wooden...
Cornwall put on a great show in July with beautiful weather and some small swells to break the early summer flat spell. We were joined in the...
For this year's Boards, BBQ and Beers evening, we invited former British champion surfer, writer, and environmentalist Sophie Hellyer to take to the...
Jersey has an incredibly rich surfing heritage; these days the Channel Islands are often overlooked in the UK surf scene but when surfing first started to develop in Europe the island of Jersey was one of the first places from which the sport sprouted.
Our local beach of Porthtowan has an interesting new addition for the next week; Wool Beach Lodge is a pop-up exhibition presented by The...
In our new web mini-series, Boardrack Briefings, James will be talking about each of the hollow wooden surfboards in our range with a different...
At a low enough latitude, which for surfers here in the UK means the north of Scotland and the Outer Hebrides, on the summer equinox when the sun...
June is in bloom, and whilst the countryside around us bursts in to life and colour we are reminded once again of the plight of our pollinators...
Running from May 25th through to June 8th 2019, Surf School at The Exchange Gallery in Penzance, Cornwall, is an exhibition of the craft behind surfing. We were delighted to be invited to be a part of the exhibition as Makers in Residence, and so last week we packed up some of the workshop and re-built it in the gallery space at The Exchange, and have been making a wooden surfboard there over the course of the exhibition as well as...
Another year and another Boards, Barbecue and Beers! We were lucky enough to host a fifth sold out event at our workshop last Friday, witnessing two...
Last week we welcomed Tomáš to the workshop to make his own wooden surfboard. Tomáš travelled to join us from Brno in the Czech Republic,...
At the start of April, we packed our tools and a big stack of bodysurfing handplane blanks into the back of a van and set off on our 2019...
