Our Storyboard Project makes it into The Surfer's Path...last week to grab a copy!

Through last year we pulled together a project with friend and phtographer Mat Arney called The Storyboard. What began life as a few photos and an idea soon became the seedlings for a full exhibition. We documented the story of one of our surfboards, from the timber being harvested, milled, machined and finally constructed into a board with a few little twists along the way.

We have exhibited the board and its 12 accompanying framed photos at a couple of places down here in Cornwall. Firstly the Tubestation at Polzeath at the end of last year and currently it sits at The Scarlet Hotel in Mawgan Porth.

Mat, being the talent that he is, wrote a lovely story to compliment the photographs. Putting the two together, we have had some handmade books created by our friends down the road at Monkey Puzzle (£25 from our website) and following this, we have been lucky enough that The Surfer's Path picked it up as a feature article in their current issue (88).

The magazine is only on sale for one more week, so if you want to get your mits on a copy you'd better move fast!......failing that, here is the whole 6 page article....you can just about read it if you make the images full screen.

The Cover...we didn't quite make it that far! Maybe next time...

Others from the South West that made this issue...Karl Mackie, photo on page 10....Julian Mathews of Gulf Stream, interview on page 30.....and Rob Tibbles, full photo portfolio on page 70

SAS Fundraiser Board Sold on E-bay

The 6'10 Mini Magic that we built as a donation for the SAS fundraiser raffle last year was kindly donated back to them as the raffle winner felt she wouldn't be able to do the board justice - how kind! So SAS put the board up on e-bay to see if they could raise some more cash and it sold last weekend for a bargain price of £1022...with a Wave Tribe board bag and leash as well as a lovely Rainbow Fin Co. 9" fin.

The final winner is somewhere down here in Cornwall, so hopefully we'll be able to build a good relationship with them and get some feedback from the board as well as offer them a visit to the workshop when they come to SAS to pick up the board.

Here are some pictures of the board that SAS took to show the board off and if you want to get your mits on one, let us know and we'll see what we can do for you....

Dom from SAS holds the board up in the sun at the back of their offices in St. Agnes

The Winner's loot - board, bag, leash and fin, oh and one of our little jute bags to keep his accessories in.

The board in the making last year - looks like we needed to tidy the workshop a little!

I wonder if we'll be working with the guys down the road again...keep a look out for further collaboration projects coming this year!

Handplane Review in The Surfer's Path current issue

We have been lucky enough to have two sections about us in the current issue (88) of The Surfer's Path. One of which is this one here, with a lovely write up about our handplanes on page 36...Thanks to Alex for such a lovely review and keep up the good work with the magazine!

Let us know your thoughts and if you'd like to get hold of one of our planes, we are making our next batch this week

8'0 minimal nearly ready for laminating!

We've almost got our first over-seas order completed...just waiting on the fin to arrive before we take it to be laminated. This 8'0 is destined for Guernsey (about as close as an over-seas order can be!) and a matching stand is going with it, so when it's not in the water it'll be on display in the house. Nice to know it won't end up at the back of someones shed!

The board is mostly wetern red cedar, with poplar and walnut strips down the center and matching in the rails. The walnut didn't like bending into the nose on the rails, so the nose block had to be laminated cedar to give us the shape we needed to a point further down the board than usual. We can't wait to see how the colours in the timber come out once its laminated....

The bottom planking...where every board begins.

Here you see the extended nose-block allowing for a nice smooth outline.

 

All the rails on....nearly ready for the deck skin to be glued on.

The deck is on and we begin finding the shape.

Its now just about the final shaping and sanding to prepare it for laminating.

We'll post some more pics of the board and stand when we get it back from Paul at Diplock Phoenix.

New Hoodies Printed - Limited Edition

Just before Christmas we were pleased to hear our hoodies had been printed by the guys down the road at Advertees. We have a limited run of hoodies in Navy, Grey and Chocolate in mediums and larges. If you're keen to get your mits on one to keep that little bit warmer as the winter rolls in, let us know and we'll drop one in the post for you. 

The printing is done using water based inks and the hoodies are 45% recycled polyester and 55% organic cotton and they are just oh so soft! We've all been wearing ours all the way through the Christmas period.

They are priced at £45 and once they're gone they're gone as sadly the hoody manufacturers have stopped their 'sustainable' range....kind of defeating the idea of sustainable we think. But hey ho, we'll figure out a more consitant supplier of more quality hoodies soon! As ever, we'll keep you posted.

The Navy Hoody

The Chocolate

And the Grey

Storyboard Books Printed and Signed!

When pulling together the Storyboard exhibition, Mat and I reallised what a great opportunity we had to make a photography based documentary of the project. So we went ahead and turned our favourite 26 images along with the story into delightful little handmade books. Great for the coffee table or for budding board builders to browse over for some thoughtful inspiration....we hope! We had a limited run of 14 printed, which we have both signed and the first few have disappeared from our hands without us even telling anyone about them. This first run of signed editions are priced at £25 each, so if youd like to pick one up before Christmas, let us know and we'll send one out to you.

Here are some teaser images that are in the book.

We are planning to complete a second edition of prints when we sell out of those first few, but these wont be signed and will be sold at a price of £20. So if you miss the first batch, fear not, more are on the way!

Bear Prototypes Finished

It feels like it's been a long time in the making, but we have finally completed our first two prototype Wombats for Keith Beddoe of Bear Surfboards. There were a few issues with the collaborative processes that needed ironing out, so these fist two will be very much our demo boards, and not for sale but in the coming months, we will be working on a mal with Keith. So if you're looking for a longboard from us, watch this space...

We will be keeping this model for demo use, its a 6'4 based on the Bear Wombat.

This is Keith's 6'4 model - look at the lovely finish that the guys at Diplock Phoenix achieved for us.

Here's Keith's board in its new home - on display at Surfed Out in North Devon.