Richard Harvey here on the Gold Coast is a well known and long time hand shaper who has put together a series of classes to teach you how to...

Peace brother. Burned in logos Concave deck and bottom with a high low rail. Lay down, kneel or stand up. It's a 4' x 24" wide ...

Modern art , wood sculpture and letterbox slot ? No , fin and function. Tears of stain... Fin in or no fin at all . Richard says " It h...

" Nearly 30 enthusiastic students and a few teachers joined the wooden surfboard experience by shaping timber Alaia's as a part of ...

Herold , a Dutchman living in Japan , teaching English to the Japanese, still with me. Anyway he came out to the Gold Coast to do Paul Jense...

Local shaper and artist Richard Harvey has had these in his sketch book for a while and finally found time to bring it all together. The Ala...

Richard had some balsa left over from his last project so set about making a hollow core for his new board.  The hollow core cuts down on ti...

Richard has just finished his balsa gun and it is off to Western Australia to some lucky bugger. Pretty nice job.

Local Gold Coast shaper and artist Richard Harvey has set out on a new project with a 9ft 6" balsa gun. Here are a few shots he sent me...

As this blog comes together I hope to show the many ways people have gone about crafting their wooden boards. Some may be quite basic , some...