Wooden boards by Tadas Kuzmarskis

As you will see Tadas has build boards of various construction.


Great finish and detail with various woods and cork.

Nice touch the cork wrapped around the legrope plug.


Home foiled fins...



Now it gets interesting. A laminated plywood fish. " I used two full 18mm birch plywood sheets to cut one board. They weigh quite a lot - simply to put it - one person can not carry them. With some carefully designed bracing deck and bottom came out 4 mm thick. The board was glued from around 30 individually chambered plywood strips. "







" Since it was my first prototype, just to be on the safe side it was glassed with 2 x 4oz on top and bottom. It weights a little bit more than solid rail box type wooden board. I will be building 9 more chambered ply boards this year - mostly fishes and several mini Simmons boards. Number of people are chambering wood but I have never seen anyone using plywood - results are rewarding :) I'll keep you updated with my ply board build experience. TADAS "



Great looking board and a very interesting angle on building a board.Glue is heavy and plywood has a lot of glue and then to glue it all together , yes it all adds weight.We look forward to your future projects.

Meet a very talented lady - Lesley Adamski

At this years wooden board day I was introduced to Lesley who had flown up for the day from Mac Masters Beach. Her friend introduced us and showed me a album of pictures of the boards she had been building and riding. Just amazing work.So I asked her to send some pics to share with us here.
Lesley riding her chambered 5ft 3" Mini Simmons.


" The latest one in the making is a shortened version (6’2”) of my 9’1 Mal, from an old outdoor Western Red cedar table from a rubbish pile, with Paulownia stringers (off cuts from some Alaia’s I made for friends) "


" I am putting a fin box in it, because I don’t know what fin or where to put it and I’m trying the Lanotec Timber Seal on it. I’m concerned the glue joins might not hold up seeing not much glue
surface area, being chambered (all the finned boards are chambered) and Western Red Cedar can be tricky to glue but want to keep the weight down."


" The Mini Simmons (5’3”) is from a packing crate so a variety of lightish weight timber, I finished it with Epoxy Resin and Bamboo cloth, which turned out more opaque than I’d hoped. It hid the grain a bit and added too much weight to it."




" The Alaia’s are from old Facia Boards of Californian Redwood, Linseed oil finish.

" The 6 foot fish is Oregon from framing studs and old bed railings, with Blackwood fins from a benchtop offcut. It’s a bit heavy but that’s what I had at hand. It’s finished with Bio Varnish "



I think this is the Simmons judging by the S deck , showing the extent of the chambering .

Black wood fins and a nice finish with the Bio varnish.


Another Californian Redwood Alaia showing off the great grain with the Linseed oil finish.

What a very talented lady indeed. She has some skills that many of us hope to one day find through or hours in the shed. I take my hat off to her and look forward to having her bring some boards to next years gathering. I would love to have Lesley as one our guest speakers at next years night at the Surf Museum on the Saturday night if she were willing.

Wooden boards as art

Get ready to ride the wave.

Peter Walker’s suite of original, hand crafted wooden surfboards provide a glimpse into the marine vehicle’s design evolution.

Paying homage to the surfboard’s origins in the Hawaiian’s long wooden planks used for ‘wave sliding’ or he’e nalu, Walker combines his furniture designer/maker background and his surfing experiences to create stunning boards that have been, in many ways, transformed from the utilitarian object to works of art.

This exhibition includes a variety of original plain wood Hawaiian-inspired boards, plus boards such as 8 ft Swastika and Finless Double-ender which incorporate intricate inlaid marquetry demonstrating Walker’s discipline and fine craftsmanship.

For further play between old and new, Walker has collaborated with a select group of artists to express their ideas of adornment. Ranging from Stephen Bowers’ antipodean willow pattern of beach culture, Gerry Wedd’s coral-like magnification of Paulownia wood cells to the culturally inspired board of Phil Hayes who appropriates Chinese characters with the ubiquitous Magpie, as well as Quentin Gore’s paisley pattern indicative of Indian henna painting designs.

But do not be fooled by mere surfaces, these boards can all be used to carve up a fluid path across a shifting wave. A perfectly balanced resolution of sport, ecology and craft.



























For details on the exhibition check out : www.jamfactory.com.au
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