Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
This past week has been a busy one in the workshop here at Otter surfboards, and it's been absolutely brilliant. We've been running another one of our "Build-Your-Own" workshop weeks and this time it was the turn of Allan and Myles to get busy with clamps, block planes and glass paper turning a stack of raw materials into two finished surfboards over the course of five days.
British like cricket: that was the over-arching theme when we set out to design and build a more performance orientated mal to sit at the...
Let us introduce you to the humble surform. Many of you may already be familiar with them, but we're going to take a closer look at this...
Stand tall and proud. Go out on a limb. Remember your roots. Drink plenty of water. Be content with your natural beauty. Enjoy the...
Next Monday, the 21st of January, is Blue Monday. The third Monday in January is deemed by many (although it's pseudo-science) to be "the most...
We're going to start our "Surfboard Focus" series of blogs this week (we'll be looking at one board every month or so), and because it's a Friday, we're going with "all the f's" and doing a Fetch Fish Friday. The Fetch is a 5'10" x 20 3/4" x 2 3/4" classic outlined fish, with twin keel fins and a deep swallow tail. The first wooden board that James built was a fish, and the Fetch is the direct descendant of this original Otter surfboard....
Happy New Year! So the festive period is truly winding down now and things are getting back to normal, and that means that this weekend is the...
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...
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 decorations from.
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,...
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 expected and will be just about ready for our opening tonight from 4-7pm, so if you're in the area after work, drop in and have a look around. We have the whole exhibition with us - the board half built showing the poem inscribed on the framework and 12 framed images by Mat Arney. This project...
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...
