Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The bank holiday at the end of August is often the day that kicks off our most popular workshop of the year. It’s normally the week that fills up before the year has even begun, but alas, this year has been a little different, right?! This August, Hugh joined us on his own, to make a 7’2 Coaster made entirely from poplar, bar a thin strip of dark teak down the centre and whilst this layup is relatively rare for us, it does happen to...
We haven’t run a surfboard workshop for a few months, so when we knew Ben was going to join us for our first surfboard workshop since February,...
Back in February we welcomed Adrien into the workshop. It feels like such a long time since we flung open our workshop doors and welcomed anyone...
Right now, the restorative power of making and reconnecting with your own two hands, and of staying connected with each other, has never been more...
Bodhi joined us in deepest, darkest December last year to make a custom 6’2 hybrid shape over five days hunkering down in the workshop as wind and...
Luca is a close friend and, as we believe that friends are the family you choose, we consider him one of the family. We first met whilst in Sri Lanka six years ago, surfing the warm waters of the South West and sharing some waves with no-one else around. It was special, and as a result, so was the friendship that blossomed.
Often, when we run our workshop weeks, we hear feedback from customers about how time flies past through the week and Friday seems to be here...
For the second of our August “Make Your Own Wooden Surfboard” workshops, we were joined by Matt and Henry. Matt runs a company that designs...
Last Saturday we welcomed back a large cast of our “workshopper” family for our 2019 Annual Gathering of Makers when we gather together for a...
Our first August wooden surfboard workshop was a special one, not least because we had three 7’2” Coasters on the trestles here. We were...
Cornwall put on a great show in July with beautiful weather and some small swells to break the early summer flat spell. We were joined in the workshop by Guillaume, who travelled from Lille, France, to make his own wooden surfboard with us and one of the most rewarding things about his week was to see him fall in love with a place that he had never considered before. Guillaume came to make a surfboard, but also made a connection with Cornwall...
Jersey has an incredibly rich surfing heritage; these days the Channel Islands are often overlooked in the UK surf scene but when surfing first...
Last week we welcomed Tomáš to the workshop to make his own wooden surfboard. Tomáš travelled to join us from Brno in the Czech Republic,...
At the start of April, we packed our tools and a big stack of bodysurfing handplane blanks into the back of a van and set off on our 2019...
It wasn’t until Nick and Matt, our two February workshop attendees, had spent a bit of time together on Monday getting to know each other that they...
When we first started running make-your-own wooden surfboard courses, we honestly never considered that somebody might come back to make a second. But, it’s now happened enough times to be more than a coincidence. In December, we welcomed Matt back to the workshop to make himself a 9’1” Wicket.
In mid-October, the workshop was full of the noise and energy of the Koska kids; Flora, Ellie and Jolly. In the summer of 2015 their dad Marc joined...
The first of our new range of exploration stand-up paddleboards to be developed was the largest; the 12’6” Endeavour. A former workshopper,...
Sharp chisels, plane blades and saws in a woodworking workshop are a given; but a sharp pencil is probably the most important tool of all. There’s...
