Classic Wooden Surfboards Classes

Build your own hollow wooden surfboard by hand in Brisbane's only dedicated wooden surfboard making workshop.

At Bywater Design, our passion for woodworking and our love of the ocean came together over a decade ago to create something truly special. Our four day Hollow Wooden Surfboard Making Workshop has been helping students of all skill levels create the wooden surfboard of their dreams ever since, and we are enormously proud of every board that has left our Boondall workshop.

A Better Board, Built the Right Way

Our surfboards use absolutely no foam. Every board is built using sustainable timbers including Paulownia, Western Red Cedar, and Cambia Ash, combining beautiful natural materials with traditional woodworking techniques and innovative board styles and patterns developed right here in our studio over many years of refinement.

The result is a board that is as beautiful as it is functional, and one you made entirely with your own hands. ‍

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The Four Day Workshop

Our workshop is designed for everyone, from the complete woodworking novice through to the experienced carpenter looking to take on an extraordinary new challenge. Over four full days in our working Boondall workshop you will learn the techniques, develop the skills, and build a finished hollow wooden surfboard that is uniquely yours.

We provide all materials and all expertise. You simply bring your enthusiasm and we take care of everything else.

Our classes are kept small to ensure every student receives the attention and guidance they need throughout the process. It is also, genuinely, one of the most enjoyable and rewarding things you can do with four days.

Join us for 4 days of fun and learning where we will teach you every thing you need to know to make the wooden surfboard of your dreams. For more information, please email us for a surf pack . As our classes, tend to fill quickly we urge you to enrol as soon as you can to avoid disappointment

2027 Workshop DATES

  • March 11, 12, 13 and 14 Place available

  • June 10, 11 , 12 & 13— Places Available

  • August 12, 13, 14 & 15 — Places Available

  • October 14, 15, 16 & 17— Places Available

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A man standing on a sandy beach holding a large wooden surfboard with a lighthouse illustration at the bottom. The man is wearing sunglasses, a black T-shirt, and blue patterned swim shorts, smiling, with the ocean and cloudy sky in the background.

Reserve Your Place!

Workshop dates fill quickly and places are strictly limited. To receive our full Surf Info Pack with everything you need to know about the workshop, materials, and what to expect, get in touch and we will send it straight to you.

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A person surfing on a small wave near the shoreline.

If you can’t make it to one of our classes, dont stress we can bring the Bywater Surfboard experience to you ! Thats right we are pleased and proud to introduce an extension to the Bywater Surf Culture:
Wooden Surfboards Australia.

The place to buy our exclusive Bywater Surfboard DIY kits.
We will send you all the necessary components, timber, fins rails, etc to make your Bywater Surfboard in your own workshop, at your own pace and in your own time and we wont leave you stranded, we offer extensive guidance and even video lessons from Stuart as well to help you build the board of your dreams. For all the good deets head over to our designated DIY kit website and buy yourself something amazing to do over these holidays !