Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
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 the case that traditional joiners and cabinet makers end up with an impressive collection of different sizes and profiles. We use Japanese nomi chisels in the workshop here and are often asked why we use so many Japanese tools rather than their traditional British counterparts.
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...
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 spacious new premises at Mount Pleasant Eco Park, Porthtowan, means that it’s not been crowded. Three sets of trestles have been the centre of attention as Jerome, Graeme and Lloyd have spent the past five days with us building and shaping their surfboards under James’ tutelage. Absolute...
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...
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, labelled and moved 4 miles down the road to the Mount Pleasant Ecological Park on the hill above Porthtowan. It is said that moving house is one of the most stressful things that you can do, but despite making the decision at short notice just a couple of days before heading off on holiday and getting...
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 hand tools. The exception to this rule, however, is the use of an orbital sander in the final stages of shaping. Without such a tool the final 5% of producing a surfboard would more than likely account for at least 20% of the overall build time and the production of each surfboard would certainly...
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...
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...
