Happy New Year to you all . Thanks for your support and I hope that the coming year treats you well.

 Homemade: Lewis Rosenberg entered the water in Newquay, Cornwall, with a primitive homemade 8ft board he carved out of balsa wood. Ridin...

 Davis Murphy has a great range of handplanes to share with us. " Some of these little guys are from the scraps of a chambered board ...

 Greg Wheeldon from Brisbane has been busy at it again. Lots of detail once again. Great to see the effort he puts into his boards. " ...

Merry Christmas to all of you who have supported me this year. There have been some great boards built and many guys experimenting and tryin...

 Great to see Andrew from Grown Surfboards in Lennox Heads is getting his boards out there. This one is on its way to California to go into ...

 Tony Crimmins has done himself proud with his efforts on this board. I saw it getting glassed and it is a great shape and has a beautiful f...

 Craig Cater lives down Nimbin way in the northern New South Wales hills. He has just sent me a link to his site and these great shots of a ...

THE THINGS I CARRY: Jeff Beck from FLY CANVAS on Vimeo . www.ninelightssurfboards.com

Joe also makes, from scratch, Balsa wood and redwood big wave guns. A shapers shaper, Joe’s been shaping for almost 50 years now. The gal...

Why not get a small wood project going over the Christmas break. Expand the quiver and get closer to the wave. You could get the kids involv...

Some great historical shots of early Australian wooden boards sent to me by Daffy Chisholm via Lyn Tunbridge.

" 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 (2...