Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
POST UPDATE: As of 2015 we have been using a Spanish grown and produced plywood made from FSC certified poplar. It is lightweight and traceable, so perfect for what we need. ORIGINAL POST: Plywood is clever stuff, at least we think so. If you take a piece of plywood and a piece of lumber ("normal" wood) of the same species and the same size as the plywood, then the plywood will tend to be both stronger and more flexible. Plywood is...
As Christmas Day is drawing near, Now it's too late for us to ship gifts we fear, So we're taking a break for a couple of days, And hope...
There aren’t a lot of windows left in the workshop advent calendar, which means that Christmas Day is drawing ever closer. It’s feeling a...
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and that means that lots of people will be out this weekend shopping for a tree to hang their...
We'd like to introduce Buddy as the newest member of the team here at Otter Surfboards.
Time to get your diaries out folks. Next weekend, from the evening of Friday November 30th through to late afternoon on Sunday December 2nd, we will be opening the doors of the workshop as part of the Krowji Christmas Open Studios event.
Ordinarily, it takes a few weeks for us to work our way through the various stages in constructing a wooden surfboard, as we usually have several on...
We’ve been back in the workshop for a little over a week now, and whilst our trip up to London was fun and action packed, it’s nice to be back...
We headed up to the big smoke yesterday to set up our Storyboard exhibition at the Patagonia store in Covent Garden. It took a little longer than...
Early last year this project began with excited talks from Tom Clarke, the head Gardener from Trelissick, who'd recently felled a storm damaged tree...
A "One Tree" Collaborative Wooden Surfboard Story by James Otter and Mat Arney.
