John Sutcliffe from Mangawhai on his home built wooden twin keel fish surfboard enjoys a small peeling wave at Ruakaka beach.

John is a regular support of the wooden board day each year and loves his wooden boards.Great to see them out in the surf where they are supposed to be.
Nice one Johnny.

9ft 4" Balsa Deluxe

Fine tuning prior to glassing

Fin boxes routed and ready

Fine veneer glued up to go around the fin boxes to minimise the non wood outcome on the finished board.It is such attention to detail and the execution of such things that sets the great board builders apart. Roger hall is one such builder of fine craft.

Master class all the way.

The Cabbage Tree and Agave board.

"Have you ever wondered how surfboards are made? If yes, do you know how the whole process and materials involved? Yes? Then, do you know how to make a wooden one? If you do, now forget everything you know about all of that and look at how Roger Hall makes a stunningly impressive surfboard made out of Cabbage Tree and Agave. The wood he uses is pretty much found on the side of the road, thereby turning a whole lot of surfboard building and commercial concepts on their heads, even throwing them out the window! Observe as his glasser, Matt Waite, reveals the wide colour ranges and textures that each wood offers. An extended version of this will be available as a bonus feature on the SEWN DVD. So get into some droning beats and admire this craftsmanship marvel of surfboard making, simply the best in NZ!"

Wooden Fish up for auction to raise funds for Christchurch Earthquake relief.

Just wanted to let you know the auction has now officially started for the Red Cross Earthquake Board.

The Trademe link is as follows:
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Sports/Surfing/Surfboards/Shortboards/auction-375246625.htm


The closing time for the auction is Monday 16 May, 8:22 pm (New Zealand Standard Time).

Fingers crossed, we hope there are some generous people out there that want to help our healing City and in return get themselves a one off collector’s item.

Once again, the story of the Earthquake board can be read here:
http://sadhanasurfboards.co.nz/news/

Full photo gallery of the making can be seen here:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.153663951360818.31693.100001516413921

Kiwi , John Sutcliffe's chambered log

John has just picked up his chambered Redwood and Pine strip longboard. The Redwood was locally milled and he made the board to donate to raise funds to build a skateboard park in Mangawhai.
" The usual positive input from Roger and an awesome glass job by Matt and Emma from Surfline Surfboards. Carmen and I will be there in August with a twin fin fish made with Kahikatia which I have just started."

Nice fin to compliment the board.

Kiwi fush underway

Johnny Sutcliffe with the framework of his wooden fish project, redwood rails and the stringer is unkown species but he retrieved it from a skip bin.He will keep us posted on the progress and we should see the finished project in August. Nice one John.

The High Tech approach

We all know that the bee and the honey comb are a dam good team when it comes to building ideas. Well meet Mike Grobelny from New Zealand. He has taken that idea and some technology and lifted the bar for us all.

Old ideas new ideas , it is all out there in front of us we just need to know where to look sometimes.

It helps when you are a computer design major and have a work shop like this to use.

Light , strong and only the beginning for Mike.

Check out this clip and if you would like to meet him he will be one of the speakers at the Gold Coast Surf Museum on the first weekend in August for The Wooden Board Day 2011

Bobby Crisp from Wellington has some special boards coming for the Fish Fry ...

A Paipo board getting the finishing touches...
Bobby Crisp , came to last years Wooden Board Day and turned up with some very intricate inlay boards , which is something he seems to specialise in and do very well. He is flat out building and finishing boards to bring to the Fish Fry.

Check out Bobby at : www.deluxeindustries.co.nz

and www.deluxindustries.blogspot.com

Some nice woodwork by Bobby Crisp from NZ.

Here are some pretty tidy wood detailing by Bobby Crisp for Wellington in New Zealand. He is currently in Hawaii catching a few warm rays and south shore waves before heading over to the Gold Coast for the wooden board day on the 9th of August. Looking forward to catching up with him and checking out his boards up close.

Bobby Crisp's working on a couple of boards for August

Bobby Crisp from Wellington , New Zealand id finishing off a couple of boards to bring over in August to The Wooden Surfboard Day. He does a nice job , with a lot of detail in his inlays and wood work. Looking forward to meeting him and checking out his boards. www.deluxeindustries.co.nz

John Sutcliffe's board is ready to get wet

John Sutcliffe from New Zealand  has just finished his board and wet it's head. This is the one built in the garage next to the GT Falcon. Roger Hall and Matt Waite from Surfline Surfboards glassed it for him.

" Sunday was the official launch at Mangawhai Heads. The surf wasn't really co operating but I had a ball. Its so cool to actually surf something I made myself. Anyway here are some photos for the blog.

Cheers John"      We hope to see John with his board in August.