Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
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 the muffled sounds of reggae coming from a radio and the careful footsteps of a team of guys who have been installing a rack of solar panels on our roof in between the rain showers.
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...
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...
The festive season sees almost everyone taking a few days off to spend time with family and friends, and for many of us that means lighting the fire...
Our final workshop of 2015 has just wrapped up, and it was a great week to finish the year on. Every single one of the “Make-Your-Own” wooden...
Commit your all to everything that you do. Commit to doing the best work that you can, so that you can stand by it. Commit to doing right by the planet that we live on, whatever it takes. Commit to seasonality and embrace the differences between each one . Commit to the task at hand, and stay until it’s done. Commit to surfing when the waves are good, not just when the weather’s good. Commit to a wave, and paddle...
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...
Ordinarily, the people who join us to build their own wooden surfboard over the course of a workshop week have a fairly similar understanding of...
In the first week of November last year, just as the temperatures really dropped and winter announced its arrival, we took a few days off to head...
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 diary, a year planner, a digital calendar or a calendar hung on a wall in plain view. Calendars date back to the Bronze Age, with the course of the sun and moon being used to keep time across various ancient cultures before the Romans (during the reign of Julius Caesar) reformed their calendar in 45 BC...
For the past couple of years, our friends over the hill at Finisterre have been working on developing a wetsuit designed specifically for surfing...
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...
Last Saturday, Michael woke up with no idea what he would be doing for the next week; a few months previously his wife had told him that she was...
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...
Our Annual Gathering of Makers is our chance to say thank you; an opportunity for us to invite everyone who has supported us these past few years by spending some of their time and hard earned money with us making their own wooden surfboard back for a weekend of surfing, sharing stories and good food and drink. Every "make your own" wooden surfboard workshop week that we run has up to three people attending so not only does it allow those...
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...
After August delivered us a mixed bag of weather and waves (to put a positive spin on it), the first Sunday of September at least dawned sunny and...
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...
