Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
Surfboards vary in appearance as much as the human beings that use them; many become a vehicle for expression both in the way that they are ridden but also in the way that they are decorated. But then most surfboards are made of laminated foam, and all start out as blank white “blanks” (the industry term for an unshaped slab of foam) that beg to be personalized with paint because otherwise they’re just a shapely piece of plastic....
Over Christmas and the New Year James and Liz finally headed off on their slightly belated honeymoon, trading the wind and rain of the northern...
We’ve had a rather unusual surfboard stored in the workshop for the past year or so; it’s a twelve feet long replica of a Tom Blake style...
Our first “Make Your Own” workshop week of 2016 has just finished up, and it was a great way to kick off this year’s series of courses. We...
We’re excited to share with you this week the news that, this spring, we’ll be heading up to Surf Snowdonia in North Wales to run a week-long...
Abandon all hope of glory Let it fall from your hand, Float through grit And settle to the sand. Swim on comrades The Closeout is come. Breathe in Earth’s aura, The magnificent clear. Where you go you’ll stay Held under your fear. Swim on Comrades The Closeout is come. Kick with resolve The most euphoric whim. Hoots and shakas Outlook is grim. Swim on comrades Closeout...
The roof of our workshop has been a bit noisier than usual this past week. That’s because when it wasn’t drilling down with rain, we could hear...
As the New Year begins, it’s nice to take a moment to reflect upon everything that happened over the past twelve months. We think that applies to...
Well, Christmas Eve has well and truly crept up on us again following a flurry of activity throughout December. We’d like to wish all of you a very...
The festive season sees almost everyone taking a few days off to spend time with family and friends, and for many of us that means lighting the fire...
Our final workshop of 2015 has just wrapped up, and it was a great week to finish the year on. Every single one of the “Make-Your-Own” wooden surfboard workshop courses that we’ve run this year has been a fantastic experience for us as workshoppers arrive on the Monday morning as strangers and leave on the Friday evening as friends. This week was no exception. This last week we were joined by Kevin, who travelled from his home in...
Commit your all to everything that you do. Commit to doing the best work that you can, so that you can stand by it. Commit to doing right by...
Wastage is something that we avoid at all costs, and that is a sentiment shared by our friends over at Riz Boardshorts, who produce beautiful printed...
Next weekend, we’re loading up the van and driving up to London for a rather special event. We’ve been invited by the team behind the Do Lectures...
Ordinarily, the people who join us to build their own wooden surfboard over the course of a workshop week have a fairly similar understanding of...
In the first week of November last year, just as the temperatures really dropped and winter announced its arrival, we took a few days off to head out on a microadventure with some friends. James and Mat were joined by Will Meyer and Rob Craig (Will being one of the siblings behind London based Brother Cycles), and the plan was to spend three or four days bikepacking along the coast road in the far south west, pausing along the way to bodysurf...
365 days;12 months; four seasons; one year. We all need a bit of help organising our time and remembering important dates and events, be it a...
For the past couple of years, our friends over the hill at Finisterre have been working on developing a wetsuit designed specifically for surfing...
What a week it’s been; this time last week a coach load of surfers, including three-times world surfing champion Tom Curren, big wave surfers...
