Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
We were delighted to welcome 10xEuropean Longboard Champion Ben Skinner into the workshop this week to get started designing a wooden big wave gun for him. Ben is himself a surfboard shaper as well as being the most successful British competitive surfer to date, and is collaborating with us and Surfers Against Sewage to design and build a surfboard for him to paddle into a wave of significant size off the British coast this coming...
It's officially Spring, and that means that for many of us the prospect of being fully immersed in the sea rather than floating above it on a...
Abrasive paper has been around for a long, long, time. Back in the thirteenth century the Chinese, in amongst inventing all sorts of other clever...
This week we're going to tell you about how we use walnut in our surfboards. You may have noticed how we use hardwood accent strips on the deck and...
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...
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 "longer" end of our range. What we came up with was a 9'1" x 22 1/2" x 3" board with a pulled-in tail template and a more noticeable rocker curve. Designed for day-to-day longboarders who are seeking the carry and glide of a wooden board but who still want the broad spectrum of performance...
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...
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,...
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...
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.
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