Posts Tagged ‘building’
New wooden board building class in UK
” We are planning to do another hollow wooden surfboard workshop in the UK.
Date will be one of the weekends at the end of January (20-22 or 27-29).
The location will be the Bridge Boathouse in Richmond near London. http://www.richmondbridgeboathouses.co.uk/
We calculate the price as £250+£32/foot and that includes tuition and all the material you need to construct the shape of your choice. (Plywood stringer+Frames, Paulownia, Cedar, Glues, Epoxy) After the three days of workshop you’ll have a board that only needs final sanding and laminating.
have a look here for well tested shapes: http://treetosea.org/richs-template-shop/
or here for pictures from past workshops: arbosurfboards.blogspot.com
for questions or to sign up get in touch."
Paul
arbosurfboards.blogspot.com
Hollow wooden board building class with Paul Jensen in San Francisco.
Paul Jensen , just got back from a trip down to San Francisco for a small HWS class… ” We built two small fish, one big fish and a couple of longboards…
Our shop space was great, an i-Pad case factory with a lot of room to move…Nice……
I shuffled the class hours a bit…The first three days were 9AM to 5PM…The final two days were from 2PM to 10PM…The late start gave a feeling of having a at least a half day off…I surfed, others went into work…I’ll do that again…
The workshop participants were all very keen, had heaps of skills and great life experiences to share during our long hours together…We all had a lot of laughs and everyone went home with boards ready to glass…”
If this is what you would like to do get hold of Paul and organise a class for yourself and a few friends.
The Kiwi boys are hard at it building boards
In Auckland Mike Grobelny has been hard at it gluing up blanks to process using his unique milling and shaping methods to be able to bring some of his boards for the Wooden Board Day in a couple of weeks.
Here is a freshly cut Cedar blank underway, a bit heavier than Paulownia but a nice clean cut.
Paulownia blank with all the chambers linked back to the gortex breather leash plug combo.
The process…
Up North , Roger Hall is flat out selecting timbers , gluing and chamberingto create more of his wonderful boards.
A very time consuming and exacting process with many hundreds of pieces oftimber glued together.
You know the outcome will be unreal.
Just some of the machining and preparation that goes into it.Hours of work beforeyou can start to shape a board.
This is a 9’0” reproduction chambered Redwood Hot Curl,Roger just finished this off yesterday
Just down the coast from Roger , John Sutcliffe has been building his first fish.
This is Johnny’s Kahikatea Twin Keel Fish, getting glassed at Surfline at the moment,will have translucent green twin keel glass ons.
The inside scoop supplied by good mate Mike Cunningham who will be bringing a few of his hand planes and maybe a belly board.I haven’t heard from Bobby Crisp if he is coming as yet . A be rap for the Kiwi boys who love to come over and slide a few warm winter waves as well. It is not that easy jumping on a plane with board bags full of wooden boards. Thanks guys for your support and the great effort that goes into it.We look forward to catching up and checking out your latest creations.
Paul Jensen board building class.
Five Day – Build Your Own Board Workshop To be held in San Francisco, California
September 3 – 7, 2011
September 3 – 7, 2011
This classes will have up to ten participants build their own boards and at the end of the class the boards will be ready for glassing. Tuition is 0 USD per person, with materials extra, typically around per foot of board length. A “How To Build A Hollow Surfboard” CD (0 value) and a Frame Kit of your choice (0 value) will be included in the cost of the class.
What’s NOT included: Food and lodging.
To book and get more information : www.hollowsurfboards.com/fins.htm
Board building classes in Wales, UK
After a very successfull workshop last March, where ten hollow wooden surfboards where build, Paul Reisberg will host two more workshops at his place in Solva / Pembrokeshire / Wales / UK.
Paul and Rich Blundell (treetosea, grain surfboards) will teach you how to build a hollow wooden surfboard with the strip and feather method used by a lot of builders.
No woodworking skills are needed. all the paulownia and cedar needed to construct the shape of your choice will be provided.
Dates are: 12.-14. August and 19.-21. August
For more information : paulitspaul@gmx.net or call him 07790795117
Wooden board building class
Five Day – Build Your Own Board Workshop Monday, July 4 to Friday, July 8, 2011 Vista, California – USA
This classes will have up to ten participants build their own boards and at the end of the class the boards will be ready for glassing. Tuition is 0 USD per person, with materials extra, typically around per foot of board length. A “How To Build A Hollow Surfboard” CD (0 value) and a Frame Kit of your choice (0 value) will be included in the cost of the class.
What’s NOT included: Food and lodging.
Booking deposits of 0 are required.
This will be the only workshop in the USA for 2011…
For more information and to register for this class go to this link :
http://hollowsurfboards.com/fins.htm
Wooden board building course at Mt Eliza
I have just received this update on the wooden board building course at Mt .Eliza in Victoria which was organised by Robert Ivers.
” The Labour Day Long Weekend in Victoria was the date for the first Two, Tree 2 Sea Workshops in Australia, they were held in my workshop in Mt.Eliza Victoria.
Participants came from as far a field as South Australia,The Gold Coast, Byron Bay and Lakes Entrance.”
” Rich Blundell an original founder of Grain Surfboards in the USA and most recently from treetosea.org was the instructor and mastermind behind the workshops, he travelled from the United Kingdom, where he had just completed Workshops in Wales.”
” His knowledge and ideas about wooden board building is amazing. Using his specially developed system which allows a wooden surfboard to be built to the final sanding stage in two days, 9 beautiful wooden boards were created and have travelled to their new home with their creators to be sanded and glassed. Everybody had a great time and we all made some new friends.The boards ranged in size from a 4`6” Paipo to a 9′ Malibu with the fish being the most popular build. The timber of choice was Australian grown Paulownia from the Coffs Harbor region, it`s an excellent material for board making with interesting grain patterns and very easy to work with.”
” The Workshops will become regular events throughout the year and I will continue running them now that Rich has past on his techniques about this system.”
” I have had a lot of interest about this program from local schools that would like to add the program into their school curriculum, so I am tailoring the program to suit the kids ability and hope to have it up and running soon.”
Written By Robert Ivers
Hollow Wooden Surfboards
Andrew Wells from Grown Surfboards always busy building great looking boards
The “Jelly Bean” with Lennox Heads in the background
5ft 8″ mini egg built from all Paulownia and a great looking resin tint.
The King Has Entered The Building
Kelly Slater has rolled in to the Gold Coast in time for the season opening Quiksilver Pro at Snapper. After a few days of surfing attracting headlines for the wrong reasons, it’s awesome to see the Greatest Of All Time kicking it with the kids on the beach, signing plenty of autographs, and lighting up an otherwise dreary day at Duranbah.
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