Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
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 over his fellow board-builders as he was already confident with a lot of the tools that we use to build and shape our surfboards. He realised fairly early on that he would have a bit of extra time each day and decided to use this time to add a few extra details to his surfboard.
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...
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...
Last Saturday we welcomed our first workshoppers into our new space. Emma, Barbara, and Chris spent the day with us producing their...
Last weekend we temporarily relocated our workshop. For one day, on Saturday, we did what we normally do and covered the floor with sawdust whilst...
We're heading back up to London, but this time we're loading our tool kit and a stack of timber into the back of the van ready to put on a one-day "Build-Your-Own" handplane workshop at the Patagonia store in Covent Garden. On Saturday November 2nd we'll be at the Patagonia store on Langley Street (just off Long Acre) with some work stations set up and an open tool bag, ready to lead you through the process of crafting your own wooden...
Kingsley's just finished off his "Desert" Island Hopper after a week of hard work, fuelled by lots of cups of tea. He's really pleased with his...
A few changes have been afoot at Otter Surfboards this week…if you browse around our site you'll see that the first of the Autumnal updates have...
"We very nearly spent the week sleeping on a boat off the south coast, but unfortunately it was sold just a few weeks ago" Tim replied when asked...
The awning was already here when we moved in to the workshop here at Krowji; a few lengths of 2"x4" with some clear plastic tarpaulin pinned to it...
This afternoon Glenn Bowker carefully lined up an inked rubber stamp, paused to take a breath, and then pressed it firmly down onto the deck of the wooden surfboard that he's been shaping this week. Stamping the surfboard with the Otter Workshops logo is the final job on a "Build-Your-Own" workshop to-do list, and it's as important and celebrated as the topping out ceremony on any building. It signifies the completion of something and is a...
It's Friday afternoon which means both blog-time and also, during "build-your-own" workshop weeks, the culmination of a week's hard work and the...
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...
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