Making a surfboard from foam is of course very cool, but it does not have the tradition of “whiskey planks," which means it will forever be inferior to the process of building a wooden surfboard.

The inside of a wooden surfboard looks like the skeleton of a fish. And it only gets more beautiful from there. The entire process of making a surfboard from wood (most surfboards are made from foam ...

To find the headquarters of Grain Surfboards, turn away from the beach. Drive 10 minutes past the steepled church in York, Maine, past the clam shacks, past the farmstand that advertises Fresh Corn, ...

Getting your homemade surfboard noticed in this town full of surfboard shapers is about as easy as getting barreled your first time surfing. That is, unless you have a board that rails the edges ...

In the spring of 2005, while building a wooden boat in York, Mike LaVecchia pondered ways to use his boatbuilding skills to construct a wooden surfboard. “It just came to me one day,” he says. The ...

Wawa is a Muizenberg-based brand making wooden surfboards that pay homage to surfing’s Polynesian forefathers, celebrate ocean spirit and champion sustainable design.

Get out from behind that screen and build something with your hands this summer. How about a beautiful wooden surfboard? Before fiberglass and foam surfboards, there was wood. Surfers made boards from ...

A few months of sheltering in place was all a York-based manufacturer of surfboards needed to make the final touches on a new type of board. Grain Surfboards last week unveiled a new design called ...

I asked about a year ago, but thought I would try to tap the hive mind again..<BR><BR>I used to shape and glass surfboards as a hobby about 8 years ago. I would shape boards for all my friends and ...

Wooden boards make up a minuscule portion of the surfboard sales worldwide, and it'll probably always be that way. Still, there are pockets of demand for wooden boards among collectors and surfers who ...

NEW BUFFALO, MICHIGAN - Ken Cole prepared to seal what he called the aesthetic part of his project — a surfboard made primarily of Colectivo coffee bags and palm leaves. He called it the sealing of a ...