Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
We are so honoured to announce that two of our surfboard projects, The Storyboard and our One Tree collaboration with The National Trust, have been shortlisted for this year's Wood Awards in the Production Made Furniture category.
This weekend the annual Boardmasters Festival returns to Newquay (7th-11th). The Boardmasters has been running in one guise or another since...
This is the second blog post that we are publishing in our short "Down The Line" series, which aims to share with you (our friends, customers and...
The awning was already here when we moved in to the workshop here at Krowji; a few lengths of 2"x4" with some clear plastic tarpaulin pinned to it...
The name paipo (pronounced pipe-oh) is derived from the Hawaiian "Pae Po'o" which means to surf headfirst. Essentially these surfboards are...
The making of anything is likely to result in some wastage of materials, and wooden surfboards are no exception. But how much you waste and what you subsequently do with that material is very much in the hands of the maker and it is a responsibility that we take very seriously here at Otter Surfboards. The processing of wood from tree through to a finished product, surfboards included, is likely to result in the wastage of...
This past month it has finally felt as though Summer has arrived here in the south west of the UK - on some days at least! And when we get a high...
This weekend just gone saw the 2nd edition of the Girls 10 Board challenge go down at Godrevy, hosted by the National Trust. The idea of the...
This afternoon Glenn Bowker carefully lined up an inked rubber stamp, paused to take a breath, and then pressed it firmly down onto the deck of the...
"A man who makes things with his hands is a laborer. A man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman. But a man who works with his...
Poplar is a popular choice when we ask customers which hardwoods they would like to have laid up into the deck and bottom skins of their surfboards. As a timber it is relatively light and strong and it has a lovely straight, predictable, grain to work with. Poplar is very light in colour and looks good when laid up alongside Western Red Cedar, but it looks particularly good when used in combination with walnut for an accent strip - the...
It's that time of year again! We've spent the day helping to put up the signage for all of the Open Studios events that will be happening...
It's Friday afternoon which means both blog-time and also, during "build-your-own" workshop weeks, the culmination of a week's hard work and the...
We were delighted to welcome 10xEuropean Longboard Champion Ben Skinner into the workshop this week to get started designing a wooden big wave gun...
The saying goes that it never rains, but it pours. Today feels like one of those days here because so many seeds that we have been planting over...
Let us introduce you, a little more formally, to The Island Hopper. At 7'4" it's the Otter Surfboard's "one board quiver" model, perfect for longboarders looking to step down in length a bit, or for shortboarders who want a little extra flow. It's a board that answers a question that we asked ourselves: "If you were going away on an extended surf trip and had room for only one surfboard in your luggage, what would you take?"
The last few weeks have delivered some really good waves here in the South West of the UK. In fact it's been a winter of note, which is why we've...
What're you doing next Saturday? We'll be going for a swim in the waves - you should come along too.
Every now and then you see the sort of weather chart that makes you want to drop everything and run to the coast. This weekend, bookended by bank...
