Our first Winter Surfboard Making workshop for 2023
What better day to start our Surfboard Making workshop than the first day of winter.
Beautiful crisp sunny days provided the perfect backdrop for 4 days of fun and learning with our amazing board students.
Our eager crew were keen to learn the fundamentals of woodworking - delving into the mechanations of how a wooden surfboard is assembled, how to complete the perfect glue up , the importance of shaping your board just so - that it becomes the board you want to in the water and realising that the better you sand your board the better the finish will adhere to it - and everyone wants a shiny glossy board . And what better way to showcase those glorious timber grains than with a premium resin finish.
So after 4 fabulous days in the workshop, our students achieved what they set out to do - to make a beautiful hollow wooden surfboard.
So now, the glassing process begins and those wonderful wooden surfcrafts will take on a beautiful new dimension …
It is our absolute joy to share our love and knowledge of all things woodworking - and well surfing , thats the icing on the cake
Around the workshop in September
September was another fun , productive month in the Bywater Design Workshop. Hard to believe that we are in the last quarter of the year, 2019 now
Our many and varied projects included restoration on some beautiful furniture, including a lovely change of colour to a 1920’s reading chair.
Working on our new surfboard collection ( we are very excited about our new developments ) our September Surfboard class proved once again how lucky we are to share our enthusisam and knowledge with our surfboard students.
Stuart also enjoyed using his beloved hand chisels and hand carved mahogany corbels for a heritage project .
As we emerse ourselves into October we look forward to some more exciting custom made furniture projects , further restoration work and the preparation for our November Surfboard Making Workshop which is always a fun and busy 4 days !
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A little about our Beautiful Surfboards ...
We design our surfboards with a vision of what us as surfers would like in a board. Its not just the visual , although we do think that our surfboards are ridiculously good looking, its about the performance and how they ride in the water.
The Gould
The Gould is a cleaned up older board with a defnite 70’s vibe.
It single fin with a fuller nose outline and a tight pin tail. A low entry rocker with a flat bottom and and chimed rails.
The end result is a beautiful surfboard for all types of surfers in all types of waves .
The Dawn Surfboard
The Dawn is the total package.
A classic all rounder with a concave throughh the nose , flat through the centre and rolled V in the tail.
Its a sweet reliable daily ride, the perfect workhorse
Will handle all conditions from the dribble wave to the ultimate 6 foot clean wave (and dont we wish for more of those .
With the addition of wonderful timbers such as paulownia, cambia ash and cedar and no foam we are proud of the way our boards ride in the water .
Of course, we could go on for pages of all the finer details of our boards, but if you would like more info about our range we would love to hear from you , so send us an email and we will answer any questions you have !