Our timber surfboards are handmade on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria Australia, from Plantation Grown Paulownia and recycled Western Red Cedar. Fibreglassed for durability, 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.
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Wooden Board Day 2011 is on again
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Grant Newby the founder and event organizer and I with my newest creation
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The Master of Wooden Boards Roger Hall from NZ and I discussing flex
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A good turn out
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.
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BUILD YOUR OWN WOODEN SURFBOARD
WORKSHOPS IN AUSTRALIA MARCH 2011
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| 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
Rich Blundell with a sample of his work
The Wooden Board Day at Currumbin August 2010
What a great day it was at the Alley on Sunday, lots of boards and no two boards the same.
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The Wooden Surfboard Day at Currumbin is not far away and these are a couple of Retro`s that I have made for the August event.
They`re off to the boys at North Coast Surfboards for glassing and they should come up a treat. A 6`4" Twiny and a 6`8" Single fin.
