Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
Last week, thanks to a high pressure that sat right over the top of us bathing Cornwall in sunshine, we were able to slide the big, blue, doors wide open and let our visiting workshoppers build their surfboards in natural light. We had another capacity crowd, with Tracy, Martin and Paul providing great company and conversation whilst building and shaping three wonderful hollow wooden surfboards.
The festival of finless-fun is back! Our friends over at Approaching Lines are putting on another grip-less gathering on the longest day of the...
On our May workshop we had the pleasure of spending a week building wooden surfboards with Kim and Shelby. A truly international couple, they are...
The sun didn’t set for 72 hours: Last weekend James went away with five of his oldest friends (to celebrate one of the group’s impending...
"When the sun shines, make hay. Which is to say: take time when time comes, lest time steals away" The Otter Surfboards workshop has been good...
Back in March we were joined by Lloyd on one of our "Build-Your-Own" workshop weeks. Lloyd is a joiner by trade and so had a bit of a head start over his fellow board-builders as he was already confident with a lot of the tools that we use to build and shape our surfboards. He realised fairly early on that he would have a bit of extra time each day and decided to use this time to add a few extra details to his surfboard.
We've just re-stocked our online store with our classic white t-shirt, in the hope that it can tempt the sun to come out and stay out for the rest...
A good set of chisels is fairly essential in any woodworker's tool cabinet, and because of the variety of tasks that they can be turned to it's often...
This week all three sets of trestles in the workshop have grown a surfboard, as Patrick, Pete and Claudio joined us to build their own. All in...
As the sun starts to rise earlier and earlier each morning and the evenings slowly draw out, we’re presented with more opportunities to go...
Packing up the van and taking our workshop on the road is one of our great pleasures. Last Saturday the road wasn't a very long one though, as we were running a "Build-Your-Own" handplane workshop just around the corner in St Agnes for a group of competition winners at the HQ of cold water surf company Finisterre. We've known the team at Finisterre for a few years now so it's great to have an opportunity to work with them for a day. They...
Do you fancy really immersing yourself in the Otter Surfboards experience? We're really happy to announce that we're now able to offer camping in...
The saying goes that two’s company, three’s a crowd: We’ve had a wonderful crowd in the workshop with us this week, and luckily our...
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...
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 own bellyboards in anticipation of lovely summer days on the beach after such a wet, blustery, winter.
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.
