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Wally's 9'1" Longboard
Namaste readers. My mate Wally has been spending time during his holidays working on his latest woody, a nine-one longboard. Wally is an industrial design teacher and spends his days showing his...
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Hollow Wooden Surfboard Classes
For those of you who are thinking about building a wooden surfboard but don't know where to start or don't have the tools or workshop space, Stuart Bywater is offering instructor led wooden surfboard...
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Wooden Board Repair
Namaste Splinter Merchants. Well it's a sad day when your favourite woody takes a hit for the team and has to sit it out on the bench for a while. Unfortunately, a few weeks ago, Mike thought it would...
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The 7th Annual Wooden Surfboard Day 2015
Sunday the 2nd of August is set down as the date for this year's Wooden Surfboard Day to be held in the park at Currumbin as in the past years.We look forward to meeting other budding wooden board...
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Cast Resin Elliptical Fins
Namaste Fin Fondlers and welcome to this instalment of making surfboard fins using epoxy casting resin. You may have noticed that things have been a bit on the quiet side on my blog. The rumours have...
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The 7th Annual Wooden Board Day - Currumbin Alley
Namaste plank plonkers! This years annual Wooden Board Day was a resounding success with a huge selection of wooden boards on display and a continuous stream of visitors checking out the wares....
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Building a Hollow Wooden Surfboard - A Big Guy Nugget called "Fat Rick"
Namaste tax dodgers and welcome to this installment of building a 7’6” paulownia hollow wooden surfboard - A Big Guy Nugget. I wanted to share this experience with you for the sake of my ego. By now I...
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The Wooden Board Day - Currumbin Alley 2013
The Wooden Board Day at Currumbin Alley this year (2013) was a stand out. Over 100 wooden boards of all shapes and sizes were dusted off and put on display by their proud creators and owners. It was an...
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Building a Foam Core Wood Surfboard - A 9'1" Longboard Part 1
Namaste Arborial Aquaphiles, and welcome to this installment of building a Nine-One Mal called.....well I don't actually have a name for it yet but I'm open to suggestions. It's a bit of a dilemma...
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Making Wooden Surfboard Fins
Namaste and welcome to this installment of how to make a wooden surfboard fin. This is another iteration in a long line of attempts at making wooden fins from solid pieces of timber. The previous...
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A Velcro Surfboard Sanding Block for $15
Namaste Wiley Wood Wittlers. I was looking around recently for a velcro sanding block and was a bit surprised to find that they could set you back as much as $25 a piece and $4 each for the sanding...
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Designing Hollow Wooden Surfboard Templates
Namaste Mouse Fondlers and welcome to this installment of "Designing Hollow Wooden Surfboard Templates" using AKU Shaper and Hollow Board Template Maker software. Now there may some old school wooden...
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Build Surfboard Shaping Stands for under $90
Namaste Shonky Shapers and welcome to this installment of building a set of surfboard shaping stands for under $90. A good set of shaping stands are a must when you're building any kind of surfboard...
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The Surfrider Eco Challenge - Wooden Surfboard Event
Namaste and attention Waggish Woodies. The Surfrider Foundation is hosting their annual Surfrider Eco Challenge Wooden Surfboard Event and Golden Days Festival on Sunday the 10th of November at Tickle...
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A blast from the past. Some classic footage from Hermosa Beach California circa 1947. Surfing wooden paipos, shaping a 12' redwood plank with a draw knife and hand plane, surfing kook boxes and...
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Building a Hollow Wooden Surfboard - 6'2" Fish School Project Part 1
Namaste Wiley Wood Workers and welcome to this installment of building a 6'2" Fish hollow wooden surfboard. I was recently contacted by Wally, a manual arts teacher at a High School in Sydney. Wally...
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Elliptical Twin Keel Fins for Craig
Namaste Fish-o-philes,I designed and cut a set of prototype elliptical twin keels for Craig in Tasmania for his new wooden fish. Four inches deep with a NACA 0012 foil. Squashed Spitfire profile with a...
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Hollow Wooden Surfboard - Steve's Hypto Krypto Timbo
Namaste Wood Butchers and welcome to this instalment of "Building a Hypto Crypto Timbo" by Steve Hann. As many of you would have gathered by now (including Misses Wood Buddha), I am a lazy knuckle...
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Papua New Guinea Wooden Surfboards
Namaste Woodies. Long time, no see or as they say in PNG, "Longpela taim mi no lukim yu".I just got back from a recent surf trip to Tupira Surf Club on the north east coast of Papua New Guinea about...
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Tupira Wooden Surfboard Workshop Tour
Namaste Woodsters. Last month I spent a week at Tupira surf camp in Papua New Guinea and was stoked to see that the locals were get right into building wooden surfboards. Tom Wegener from Noosa and...
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