Bellyboard art in Manly

Board Art Benefit

The aim of the Board Art Benefit is to provide a great venue for the participating artists to showcase their work, to provide the public with a great chance to see collections of amazing hand-crafted board art in one place, and to support SurfAid International.
All of the boards are available to purchase at the prices shown, giving serious collectors all over the world the chance to own one of these boards, before the rarest and finest boards in the collection are selected for a Board Art Benefit Auction event to be held in the summer of 2012.
The first showing of finished boards was held at the Aaron Chang Ocean Art Gallery on Cedros Avenue in Solana Beach on January 21st.  The showing was a huge success and within days following the event six of the fifteen boards on display had sold at pre-auction prices to collectors all over the US.

 What began as an invitation extended to artist Sarah Utter to participate in the Board Art Benefit quickly gathered steam as hollow-board building pioneer Paul Jensen got involved and soon a mutual friend of both, tile artist Mike Cummins joined in the fun on another Paul Jensen board made for the occasion.  The three of them will be driving down from Washington for the show in San Francisco on June 9.  We love the teamwork in their approach as it exemplifies the community building ethos of the Board Art Benefit project.

 Further illustrating their team effort are these photos that Sarah Utter just shared with us, showing the two artists, Sarah and Mike (in blue hoodies) along with Paul, busy glassing the board that Sarah painted.  Total involvement.

 Check out the other board builders and artist teams : http://boardartbenefit.com/

Board Art Benefit – San Francisco

Where:
Driftwood Salon art gallery
39 Isis St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
(near 12th and Folsom Streets.)
click here for map
When:
One Night Only!
Saturday June 9, 2012
6-10 pm

The man to see

Nathan on the left picking up some nice new dressed paulownia for a new project from Geoff Moase

If you live on the Eastern seaboard of Australia and are after machine / dressed Paulownia in panels or strips for rails then Geoff Moase is the man to see. He can do them plain or with Cedar pinlines. Alaia blanks , Paipo blanks or pretty much any sort of Paulownia you may need to build a board. And better still he builds a great board himself. So he understands what you are doing and might need to get the job done.
Give him a call  -  0411 676 854   or check him out : www.paulowniatimbersales.com.au

More skate deck recycling inspiration

From skateboard to surfboard

As a follow up to a post of a week or so ago here is the finished board made from recycled skateboards.

12.5.2012 | First ride
I took out the board today. I never rode a hollow wood surfboard before. The waves were 
pretty small. I introduced the board to the water, and the first thing i noticed, is that it is 
really stable  in the water, and it floats perfect! Then i jumped on it, and started to paddle, it 
held me perfect on the water surface, and it was unbelieveble easy to paddle, and light in 
the water. I was stoked. I paddled out with a smile on my face, i sat down and waited for
 some set waves (they are bigger), and later when i noticed some changes on the horizon, it
 was time to paddle. I actually caught the first wave i paddled on and stood up. It was a
 right hand wave, and that was perfect since it's what i prefer cause then i can follow the 
waves better with my eyes, i can see the wave and the board all lined up. It was a great 
feeling, all this work paid off, it worked, and way above my expectations, im so happy!
Now im waiting for bigger cleaner waves so i can take it out again, cause im really gonna 
surf this thing, its not gonna be a wallhanger, no way! I made it so i could use it!



http://www.boboholm.com/

Costa Norte Surfboards - The Dominican Republic

 Chris Cook is from the North Coast of the Dominican Republic and has started building wooden boards there. He starts with a solid wooden rail construction as above and then adds his frames, below to give the final deck and bottom contours.

 Not an easy process shaping solid rails and foiling them prior to the deck and bottom skins going on.

 Complete frame showing rocker , outline and foiling

 Bottom skin ready to go on

 Working out fin placement prior to positioning blocks inside the board for fin plugs

All starting to come together. I fyou would like to check out what else Chris has been up to :
www.costanortesurfboards.com.

New board on the go.

 Tony Crimmins in Brisbane has another board on the go. He has tweeked his frame design and says it goes together well. All Paulownia frame that splices together and then needs very little to be almost self supporting. Check out what else he has been up to : www.tonycrimminstimbersurfboards.blogspot.com

Yellowfoot surfboards from the Black Forest , Germany

 The fine art of starting a rail band on a Balsa blank

 The guys at Yellow Foot organise these wooden board building classes where they work in Balsa and also build Paulownia Alaias

They are planning another building class in September / October 2012. 10 nights - 11 days . It looks like they are held at Les Aulnettes, Jard-sur-Mer, France

So if you are keen to find out more contact them :  http://www.yellowfoot.de/

 A happy group of guys who have some great looking boards from their efforts.

 Always good to get a surf in before or after class with your new found mates

 Yellowfoot build custom boards from Balsa and a have a team of riders who surf and travel the world giving them feedback. They will custom build any sort of board for you from Balsa .

http://www.yellowfoot.de/

This is their construction method of building the blank prior to laminating the rails.

Handplane Hoedown

Board Art Benefit

 

This looks like a very interesting art show where surfboard shapers and artists are teamed up to create art on foam and wooden boards as well.

Board Art Benefit – San Francisco

Where:
Driftwood Salon art gallery
39 Isis St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
(near 12th and Folsom Streets.)
click here for map
When:
One Night Only!
Saturday June 9, 2012
6-10 pm
What:
Art makers & Board shapers working together to benefit SurfAid International.
Live Music from Humboldt County’s Likwefi!
Kona Beers.

Check out more details on the list of shapers and artists : http://boardartbenefit.com/

Wood, technology and a creative mind are a great combination

Grow it - shape it - surf it

Paul Joske is incredibly passionate about anything wooden, and loves the aesthetic and ecological aspects inherent when working with timber. For years Paul has even sourced special timbers which he mills himself and uses as stringers in his custom surfboards. In 1995 Paul made the first ever Paulownia surfboard. It was chambered and painstakingly crafted. We had the pleasure of him telling us of this board at the wooden board night last year. He always has wooden projects on his mind and he told me of his latest one which has been a work in progress for some years now. He planted a paulownia tree and waited for it to mature to be large enough to build this board...

There are no short cuts to chambering a board. You need to have a well thought out plan.

The pieces of the puzzle come together

The final shaping and fine tuning

How sweet it is 

I am sure this will be no wall hanger.

For more on what Paul and Sage Joske are up to : www.vallasurfboards.com.au

vallasaltwaterconstructs.blogspot.com

The Italian job

Diego and Paulo are two good friends from Varazze in Northern Italy. They have started a 5ft 6" hollow wooden fish and have documented all the steps of the building process on their blog.

Lots of detail and interesting shots to share which is great to see.

The guys are down to shaping the rails and finishing touches. The exciting part of building a wooden board where you really get to see what it will look like. The rails and their shape give it a lot of character and defines the board.

So if you would like to check out what they have been up to go to their blog :  http://toawoodsurfboards.blogspot.it/

Thanks guys for sharing your project with us and I look forward to checking your progress.

Nobby Wood Surfboards

 

Good friend Nobuhito  Ohkawa from Chiba in Japan has just had a great write up in the latest Blue magazine. He is a very passionate board designer and builder.

 He has developed his own building method and matches all timber and uses them next to each other from where they come from in the tree.Not just book matching but actual planks cut from the tree.

 He designs and builds a beautiful board with only a multi coat of marine varnish to finish it with.

 After he was out here for last years wooden board day he headed North to catch up with Tom Wegener at Noosa .

 He loves to surf , but has been very restricted like most Japanese surfers since the disasters of last year.

 As I said quite different , but very effective and a light board as a result

 

 www.nobbywoodsurfboards.com