Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
For those of you that have bought one of our handplane kits, this How To guide will take you through each step of the making of your bodysurfing handplane at home. If you don't have one of our kits, you'll likely still get plenty of use from the words below. Enjoy the making!!! If you have any further questions, feel free to drop us an email.
In the last week of October, we were joined in the workshop by Harry and Chris. Both had travelled from the other side of the UK, to join us, but...
Do Make has now been out in the world for a couple of months, since publication day on the 3rd of September. I’ve never considered myself a...
During the first week of October, Rachel and Jerome came to join us to make their own surfboards. Rachel made herself a 9’1 Wicket, that was set to...
This Sunday, the 29th of November at 11am, I'll be in conversation with Mark Shayler as part of the Digital Craft Festival, live on Zoom and...
The bank holiday at the end of August is often the day that kicks off our most popular workshop of the year. It’s normally the week that fills up before the year has even begun, but alas, this year has been a little different, right?! This August, Hugh joined us on his own, to make a 7’2 Coaster made entirely from poplar, bar a thin strip of dark teak down the centre and whilst this layup is relatively rare for us, it does happen to...
Until 1967, there was no such thing as a longboard. Then the shortboard revolution happened and all of a sudden what had previously been called...
A week or so after re-opening the workshop post-lockdown, a delivery driver dropped off a large, heavy parcel. We had no idea what it was,...
We haven’t run a surfboard workshop for a few months, so when we knew Ben was going to join us for our first surfboard workshop since February,...
At our 2017 Annual Gathering of Makers we were joined and entertained by The Cheddar Experiment (the side project of Reef bass player Jack...
Back in February we welcomed Adrien into the workshop. It feels like such a long time since we flung open our workshop doors and welcomed anyone inside, so it’s nice to be able to take some time to look back and write up our week with him. Adrien traveled to join us from his adopted home of Dublin to make his own 7’2 Coaster and admitted to us that he was fairly new to the world of surfing. He wanted a board that he could aspire to...
Good Timber By Douglas Malloch (1922) The tree that never had to fight For sun and sky and air and light, But stood out in the open...
In the episode five of our Boardrack Briefing series, James shares the design details and inspiration behind the popular 7'2"Coaster. A...
If you’re missing the sea and surfing, then Lockdown Surf Film Festival might be just the tonic to help you stay connected to surf culture and...
“We tend to think of landscapes as affecting us most strongly when we are in them or on them, when they offer us the primary sensations of touch...
Right now, the restorative power of making and reconnecting with your own two hands, and of staying connected with each other, has never been more important. With our workshop courses temporarily suspended during the COVID-19 shutdown we are creating #stayathome make-your-own handplane kits that we can send out to you, so that you have a project to work on (individually or as a family) and something that you can look forward to using when we...
On Friday 6th March, His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales signed one of our 7’10” Clipper wooden surfboards to signify and celebrate the...
One windy Monday morning in the beginning of March we were joined at the workshop by the lovely Matt Barr, of the Looking Sideways action sports...
Bodhi joined us in deepest, darkest December last year to make a custom 6’2 hybrid shape over five days hunkering down in the workshop as wind and...
