Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
For those of you that have bought one of our handplane kits, this How To guide will take you through each step of the making of your bodysurfing handplane at home. If you don't have one of our kits, you'll likely still get plenty of use from the words below. Enjoy the making!!! If you have any further questions, feel free to drop us an email.
In the last week of October, we were joined in the workshop by Harry and Chris. Both had travelled from the other side of the UK, to join us, but...
During the first week of October, Rachel and Jerome came to join us to make their own surfboards. Rachel made herself a 9’1 Wicket, that was set to...
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...
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 inside, so it’s nice to be able to take some time to look back and write up our week with him. Adrien traveled to join us from his adopted home of Dublin to make his own 7’2 Coaster and admitted to us that he was fairly new to the world of surfing. He wanted a board that he could aspire to...
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...
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 multi-sensory experiences for theme parks (rides and experiences such as simulators) and works between the UK and Florida, where he does most of his surfing, whilst Henry is a neurosurgeon who grew up on a farm in Devon’s Otter Valley. With roles like those, it was no surprise that they both wore...
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...
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, having taken a week’s leave from the law firm that he runs, to take a week out to recharge, and to reconnect with his hands. As a land-locked kite-surfer Tomáš most frequently travels to Sicily, however he’s tried his hand a surfing a few times and is planning trips to Portugal in the future to...
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....
