Welcome to Hollow Wooden Surfboards

Our timber surfboards are handmade on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria Australia, from Plantation Grown Paulownia and recycled Western Red Cedar. These boards can take up to 30 hours each to make and will last a lifetime, if treated with care. All our boards are fully functional and surf as well if not better than a foam board.

They have more drive and are very fast down the line. They are slightly heavier than the equivalent size foam board, but this is forgotten once in the water. They repair easier and depending upon the size of the ding, will repair leaving little or no tell tale signs.

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MORE WORKSHOPS IN VICTORIA FOR 2013

For more information about the Workshops go to

www.treetosea.com.au


Tree to Sea Australia Workshops

Build your own wooden surfboard in a three day workshop and take home your very own handmade wooden surfboard. Using the latest construction methods, the boards don’t need to be fibreglassed bringing down the overall cost of making your board and the time to complete it. No prior wood working skills required. Where: Mt.Eliza Victoria Contact: Robert Ivers or Gary Miller Ph. 0409 211751 - Ph. 0423 804 975 Inquiries at : This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

ABOUT THE WORKSHOPS

This type of Workshop was first pioneered by Rich Blundell of the Tree 2 Sea fame and his philosophy is simple, share the knowledge.

Rich came to Australia in March 2011 and we ran the first Workshop in Mount Eliza Victoria. Since then we have developed the techniques further and made a few changes to Rich`s build method to keep the overall construction costs down and keep it within the reach of more people. This means that the boards you will build do not need to be fibreglassed when finished, as traditionally most board do. This is a saving of about one third of the overall build cost.

There are no high tech machines or advanced skills required to build your own Wooden Surfboard at one our Workshops. These courses are designed at a grass roots level to enable anybody who has the desire to build their own board achieve just that!

At the completion of the 3 Day Workshop you will have learned the basic skills required to build future boards at home with minimal tools.

All materials,tools and equipment are supplied, however if you prefer to use your own tools, you are welcome to bring them along.

WOODEN BOARD DAY IN QLD

Wooden Board Day 2011 is on again

Just finishing off a Retro Diamond Tail single fin to take up to the Event.

This one is the result of 6 months of testing new build methods and ideas.

Coated in environmentally friendly water based resin and no fibre glass cloth,

the internal construction had to be right. Not having the strength

of fibre glass to reinforce the board, the external coating is just for waterproofing.

The 2011 Wooden Board Day at Currumbin in QLD

Grant Newby the founder and event organizer and I

with my newest creation

grant and me at qld

The Master of Wooden Boards Roger Hall from NZ and I

discussing flex

roger and me qld

A good turn out

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Two Successful Wooden Surfboard Workshops in

Mt.Eliza

The Labour Day Long Weekend in Victoria was the date for the first Two, Tree 2 Sea Workshops in Australia, they were held in my workshop in Mt.Eliza Victoria.

Participants came from as far a field as South Australia,The Gold Coast, Byron Bay and Lakes Entrance.

Rich Blundell an original founder of Grain Surfboards in the USA and most recently from treetosea.org was the instructor and mastermind behind the workshops, he travelled from the United Kingdom, where he had just completed Workshops in Wales.

His knowledge and ideas about wooden board building is amazing. Using his specially developed system which allows a wooden surfboard to be built to the final sanding stage in two days, 9 beautiful wooden boards were created and have travelled to their new home with their creators to be sanded and glassed. Everybody had a great time and we all made some new friends.The boards ranged in size from a 4`6” Paipo to a 9' Malibu with the fish being the most popular build. The timber of choice was Australian grown Paulownia from the Coffs Harbor region, it`s an excellent material for board making with interesting grain patterns and very easy to work with.

The Workshops will become regular events throughout the year and I will continue running them now that Rich has past on his techniques about this system.

I have had a lot of interest about this program from local schools that would like to add the program into their school curriculum, so I am tailoring the program to suit the kids ability and hope to have it up and running soon.

BUILD YOUR OWN WOODEN SURFBOARD

WORKSHOPS IN AUSTRALIA MARCH 2011


Planing the rails	A recent workshop in the USA

Rich Blundell, the co-founder of Grain Surfboards in the USA and who is responsible for the Tree to Sea forum, the largest Wooden Surfboard Builders forum of its kind in the world, will be visiting Australia in 2011. He will be running two Workshops on building your own Hollow Wooden Surfboard in Victoria.

Using his patent-pending Strip & Feather method, participants will be instructed in the art of building a Hollow Wooden Surfboard using one of his many proven designs, or Rich can design one especially for you.

Each Workshop will be limited to 8 participants and will run for Two Days.

At the completion, each participant will take home a Hollow Wooden Surfboard that they have made themselves, ready for final sanding and fibreglassing. Both Workshops will be held on the Mornington Peninsula in Mount Eliza, Victoria in March 2011.

So if you have ever thought of building your own Hollow Wooden Surfboard, but don`t know how, or you have already built one and would like to try Richs` newly refined method of construction, this is your chance.

For further information and Workshop dates visit the Website treetosea.org

Or phone Robert Ivers on Mobile 0409 211751