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At sunset, a surfer's silhouetted arm reaches into calm water beside a pale wooden board.

Surfboards

Hollow wooden boards, built rib by rib around a timber skeleton.

Why wood

A wooden board rides differently from foam, and it's built to be surfed for a long time.

How a board is built

  1. Board skeletons in the workshop: a long spine with ribs slotted across it, each rib cut through with round holes.

    1The skeleton

    A spine runs nose to tail, with ribs set across it, each one shaped to the rocker and outline of the board and cut through with round holes.

  2. From above, Sam cuts along a long timber panel with an oxblood line running through it.

    2The skin

    Thin timber panels are laid over the frame and shaped until the lines run clean from nose to tail.

  3. A finished board on the workbench with three fins fitted.

    3The finish

    Sealed against the sea and fitted with fins.

A finished board stands against the timber-clad workshop wall, lit from above.
Finished, against the timber-clad wall.
Two boards lean against a wall of tools, one with a honeycomb pattern on its deck.
The honeycomb deck, by the tool wall.
The tail of a board and its fins, beside an old lathe.
Beside the old Myford lathe.

The boards

Finished boards ready to ride, and some that have already sold.

A board of your own

Tell us how you surf, where you surf and what you ride now, and we'll talk about what we could build for you.

Ask about a custom board