Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
Every once in a while we receive a request from a customer asking for something a little different. We love these little forays into the wider world of wave riding craft as they tend to require some extra learning on our part in order to apply our construction techniques to alternative designs. Most recently we were contacted by Al Stewart who wondered if we could produce an alaia for him using locally grown western red cedar, rather than...
Trees and their products can be used for any number of things. We turn timber into wooden surfboards whilst others turn wood fibres into paper,...
Last Saturday we welcomed our first workshoppers into our new space. Emma, Barbara, and Chris spent the day with us producing their...
In between everything else that we've been doing this winter, we've been having fun with our handplanes. Everything that we do here is subject to...
We have an announcement to make. We've moved! Lock, stock and barrel, the entire contents of our workshop at Krowji has been packed up,...
With storm after storm battering the coast here, we thought now might be an appropriate time to offer a little bit of escapism.
Take a walk along the Pier with us. The Pier is currently the longest surfboard in our range' it's our take on a traditional mal at 9'6" x 22 7/8"...
We're at that time of year now when the excitement of Christmas and New Year has faded and Spring and the coming of Summer still feels a fair way...
"Why two fins?" we hear you ask? Well, that's a very good question, and one that we'll try to answer here. Surfboards can have as many or as few...
Once all of the component pieces of one of our hollow wooden surfboards have been prepared, the building and shaping process is done largely using...
New Years resolutions are funny old things. Many people labour over them in the days and weeks leading up to the moment when the clock and the calendar tick over into another year, only to let their promises to themselves quietly slip away come March. Here at Otter Surfboards we have a small, core, set of values that we keep at the forefront of our minds whilst we work and which are our "resolutions" year on year. They don't change and...
Well it's the last Friday of 2013, which means that it's our last blog post of the calendar year. As the year draws to an end it's not uncommon to...
Perhaps you've left everything until the very last possible minute and are worried that you've missed your chance? Don't worry if you have and...
There’s just six days to go everyone! We’ve been holding off on the Christmas sales e-mails but please forgive us for jumping on the marketing...
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...
The one that a lot of you have been waiting for has finally arrived…introducing our 5’6” all cedar Seadar! Earlier this year we casually posed a question on our facebook page asking our followers if they could choose any one of our surfboard models, which would it be? Slightly to our surprise, the Seadar was the standout choice from many of you with the rest of our models garnering fairly equal attention for the tightly...
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...
Last weekend we temporarily relocated our workshop. For one day, on Saturday, we did what we normally do and covered the floor with sawdust whilst...
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