Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
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, we were initially nervous and a little apprehensive, but had an underlying feeling of giddy excitement. We were having the same feelings we had leading into our first surfboard workshop nine years ago and were going take Ben along the journey, with all the emotions, of creating his first...
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...
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 before we know it, yet how simultaneously, they have had time to slow down and calm their minds. A brilliant gift from the act of making.
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...
Jersey has an incredibly rich surfing heritage; these days the Channel Islands are often overlooked in the UK surf scene but when surfing first started to develop in Europe the island of Jersey was one of the first places from which the sport sprouted.
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....
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 us to make himself a 9’1” Wicket, and three years on it was a pleasure to welcome his three offspring into the workshop. Jolly was on the half term holidays of his GCSE year at school, Ellie is taking a year out between college and university, and Flora was enjoying those extended “reading...
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...
At the end of last year, James’ dad Andrew turned sixty. We’d been developing, slowly but surely, our range of flat-water exploration stand-up...
