Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
Tom’s choice of t-shirt on the middle day of his “build-your-own” workshop week was wonderfully ironic. He hadn’t thought twice when pulling it on in the morning and it took a while for it’s significance to be noted. It quickly became the basis for some wonderful conversations throughout the day centring around the topics of environmental considerations in surfboard production and the stagnation in material developments, alternate...
Two weeks ago, James was sat in his back garden eating breakfast when Ralph called. "Would it be possible to come and build a surfboard with you...
One of the nicest things about running our workshop experience weeks and sharing the joys of building wooden surfboards, is the people that we get to...
The 2014 World Bellyboarding Championships are fast approaching us, and we're busy practising and preparing for one of our favourite "surf contests"...
Luca arrived in Cornwall a few days early for his "Build-Your-Own" workshop week with us, and it turned out to be a stroke of very good timing on...
Wooden surfboards, due to the way in which they are designed, built and shaped, differ from their foam cousins in that the shape of the surfboard is determined by the framework around which it is built. Many surfboard shapers offer different models based upon a combination of design factors that work well together, depending upon the size and weight of the surfer, their ability, and the type of waves that they will be surfing most often. We...
Last week, thanks to a high pressure that sat right over the top of us bathing Cornwall in sunshine, we were able to slide the big, blue, doors wide...
On our May workshop we had the pleasure of spending a week building wooden surfboards with Kim and Shelby. A truly international couple, they are...
Back in March we were joined by Lloyd on one of our "Build-Your-Own" workshop weeks. Lloyd is a joiner by trade and so had a bit of a head start...
A good set of chisels is fairly essential in any woodworker's tool cabinet, and because of the variety of tasks that they can be turned to it's often...
This week all three sets of trestles in the workshop have grown a surfboard, as Patrick, Pete and Claudio joined us to build their own. All in their twenties (although Pete clicked over into his thirties on Tuesday and didn’t hear the end of it), the boards that they chose to build reflect wonderfully the diversity of modern day surfing – Patrick built a 9’4” Seasaw, Pete a 6’4” Woodburner and Claudio a 5’10”...
Packing up the van and taking our workshop on the road is one of our great pleasures. Last Saturday the road wasn't a very long one though, as we...
The saying goes that two’s company, three’s a crowd: We’ve had a wonderful crowd in the workshop with us this week, and luckily our...
Every once in a while we receive a request from a customer asking for something a little different. We love these little forays into the wider...
Last Saturday we welcomed our first workshoppers into our new space. Emma, Barbara, and Chris spent the day with us producing their...
In between everything else that we've been doing this winter, we've been having fun with our handplanes. Everything that we do here is subject to a design and make cycle where we design, prototype, test, evaluate and revise all of our products before sharing them with you so that we can be sure that we're offering the best products possible. This winter we've been testing out a few different handplane shapes and will be releasing one of...
Take a walk along the Pier with us. The Pier is currently the longest surfboard in our range' it's our take on a traditional mal at 9'6" x 22 7/8"...
"Why two fins?" we hear you ask? Well, that's a very good question, and one that we'll try to answer here. Surfboards can have as many or as few...
Once all of the component pieces of one of our hollow wooden surfboards have been prepared, the building and shaping process is done largely using...
