Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
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 a beautiful field overlooking the surf at Porthtowan, just a minute's (slow) walk from our workshop. So if you're coming down to spend a week with us building your own surfboard on a "Build-Your-Own" workshop week then you can pitch a tent on site and check the waves by simply rolling back the...
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...
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 a design and make cycle where we design, prototype, test, evaluate and revise all of our products before sharing them with you so that we can be sure that we're offering the best products possible. This winter we've been testing out a few different handplane shapes and will be releasing one of...
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 fins as you wish placed on the bottom, from none (as in the case of ancient Polynesian surf craft and early paddleboards) through to the most common maximum number of five, as utilised by the Campbell Brothers in their bonzer bottom/fin configurations. The key is to balance out the "hold" (or...
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...
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 bandwagon this week to let you know that our last date for UK small goods to arrive in time for Christmas is Thursday, December 19th.
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...
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...
