Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
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, having taken a week’s leave from the law firm that he runs, to take a week out to recharge, and to reconnect with his hands. As a land-locked kite-surfer Tomáš most frequently travels to Sicily, however he’s tried his hand a surfing a few times and is planning trips to Portugal in the future to...
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...
We now offer beautiful carry bags for our traditional wooden bellyboards; as with everything that we do and sell here at the workshop, these have...
We’re excited to announce that the 2019 edition of our annual summer open evening, Boards, BBQ and Beers, will be taking place on the evening of...
Booking on to one of our workshop weeks is like booking a holiday. In fact, it is booking a holiday, but one that is pre-populated with daily...
It wasn’t until Nick and Matt, our two February workshop attendees, had spent a bit of time together on Monday getting to know each other that they realised that they actually lived just a couple of miles away from each other in West London.
When we first started running make-your-own wooden surfboard courses, we honestly never considered that somebody might come back to make a second....
Surfboards, in all their various forms, are relatively fragile; getting them from one place to another, be it to your final destination on a surf...
In mid-October, the workshop was full of the noise and energy of the Koska kids; Flora, Ellie and Jolly. In the summer of 2015 their dad Marc joined...
As we near the end of another year, before we start looking ahead to what’s to come in 2019, we like to take a moment to pause and reflect on the...
The first of our new range of exploration stand-up paddleboards to be developed was the largest; the 12’6” Endeavour. A former workshopper, David Jones, who joined us back in May of 2016 when he made himself a Pieces of Eight had been in touch to say that if we were ever to design a flat-water SUP, he’d be interested. David, his wife Tracey and their children, live in Richmond in southwest London where David is a member of their local...
Sharp chisels, plane blades and saws in a woodworking workshop are a given; but a sharp pencil is probably the most important tool of all. There’s...
As I walk along the litter-laden coastline of my local beach break clutching a beaten-up old surfboard held together largely with duct tape and good...
With Christmas fast approaching, and because some of our products such as handplanes and bellyboards are handmade to order, we need to let those...
At the end of last year, James’ dad Andrew turned sixty. We’d been developing, slowly but surely, our range of flat-water exploration stand-up...
The first wooden surfboard that James made has just celebrated its tenth birthday, and it’s still going strong! Whiz is a 5’10” classic twin fin fish, constructed in western red cedar and named after James’ first dog. It was the precursor to our Fetch model that has a slightly wider tail and an updated rocker profile to name but a few improvements that James made as a result of surfing that first board. Whilst lessons have been...
I’ve spent a fair chunk of my adult life now at sea on wooden vessels – be they surfboards or sail boats. Holding the line of a 5'5, 8kg...
Everybody loves getting a postcard through the mail, particularly in the age of e-mails when most of what lands on our doormats is bills and...
“It has taken seven years to write and it’s only 27,000 words long but I have finally finished the thirteenth book that will have my name on...
