Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
We’ve never hung a Christmas wreath on the workshop doors here, but we thought that this year we ought to make an effort to get into the festive spirit a little more. Not being ones to buy things that we can make, and with the workshop running full steam ahead in preparation for our December workshop, we decided to use our offcuts to spread a little festive cheer. Fancy fashioning a similar decoration for your front door? Here’s how we...
It’d be fair to say that we’re fans of a proper tea break here at Otter Surfboards; downing tools for ten minutes a couple of times during the...
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...
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 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...
Tealing We’d like to introduce all of you to The Coaster, the latest addition to our range and a surfboard that we’ve been struggling to keep under wraps these past few months because we’ve been so excited to talk about it. The first Coaster that we built over the course of spring was also the first surfboard that we've made entirely using English poplar, a light, straight grained and strong timber. As soon as we got it back from the...
The British summer holidays are bellyboard season; that time of year when old plywood boards are pulled out of the backs of sheds and garages, dusted...
July was a good and busy month for wooden surfboard workshops here at Otter, and at the very end of the month we welcomed Marc Koska to the...
Last weekend we joined the wonderful team from Surfers Against Sewage at Somersault Festival in North Devon for a weekend of mud, music and...
For many families, school summer holidays involve going away somewhere and spending a week or so together making memories and enjoying each others...
A few weeks before Claire arrived in the UK from California, a large package arrived at the Otter Workshop addressed to her. When we opened it and unwrapped what was inside, we found four beautiful planks of Californian redwood.
A few weeks ago Chris arrived at the workshop to spend a week helping us machine timber in preparation for a "Make-Your-Own" wooden surfboard course,...
It's not a race to complete the list of daily tasks involved in making your own wooden surfboard with us here, but you'd never have known that if you...
Kurt arrived at the workshop on Monday morning, having driven his pick-up truck half way across Europe from Switzerland to come and spend a week...
It’s lovely catching up with friends who have built surfboards with us in the past – that’s why we throw our “AGM” celebration every...
This week we've had Alan and a whole lot of sunshine in the workshop with us. Whilst the beach at the bottom of the hill has been intermittently cloaked in a thick layer of sea mist over the last few days, our workshop up above it has been enjoying glorious sunshine and we've had the doors wide open every day. Alan has travelled down from North Wales to shape himself a 7'4" Island Hopper with us over the course of this week, finishing up and...
One of the really special things about sharing what we do through our workshop courses is the fact that we almost inevitably form new...
This winter we’ve been investing some time in materials research and development. With our backgrounds in design it’s important to all of us...
The first workshop week of our 2015 programme ran this week, and it was wonderful to welcome a friend from just down the coast into the workshop....
