The Slimmons , The Simmons and The Single fin got a workout. These were quite possibly the first wooden boards surfed there.
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Sergi heads to Roti
Sergi from Flama surfboards in Spain came out to Australia for a month and was my guest speaker at the surf museum for the Wooden Surfboard Day. On his way home he headed through Bali and hopped over to Roti where he had some uncrowded fun on two of his wooden boards and one I gave him.
Grown hand plane workshop at this years Byron Bay Surf Festival
Andrew has been making surfboards under his label Grown Surfboards for the past 8 years over which time he has developed a reputation for creating surfboards that are renowned for their beauty, quality and craftsmanship.
Sign up for Andrew’s workshop on Sat 25th Oct at the Surf Art Market Grown Surfboards stall and for a demo on Sun 26th Oct at Wategos Beach. Make sure to be there early to secure your spot and avoid disappointment.
Grown Surfboards evolved
from Andrew’s desire to produce surfboards that are more sustainable
and he has worked to combine his love of woodworking and passion for
surfing into an ethical and sustainable business.
Every Grown Surfboard is individually hand crafted by
Andrew from plantation grown and recycled timbers to produce surfboards
that are both functional and beautiful.
More about Grown Surfboards – www.grownsurfboards.com.au
Monday, October 6, 2014
Nobby's wooden fin workshop at the Byron Bay Surf Festival
Besides showcasing some of Japanese items of rich surf history – the wooden belly board ‘Itako’ , Nobby will host a unique wooden fin shaping workshop open for anyone to join and learn about the intrinsic details of fin foils and bevels.
Book your spot at Nobby’s Fin Workshop Sat 25. Oct now – spaces are very limited !
Contact Nobby to book: nobby_logslider@ybb.ne.jp
For more details on Nobby's class : http://www.byronbaysurffestival.com/nobby-jpn-wooden-fin-workshop/
For more details on Nobby's class : http://www.byronbaysurffestival.com/nobby-jpn-wooden-fin-workshop/
Friday, October 3, 2014
Wooden works of art
At Gastboards, we have always had a profound appreciation of wood and its possibilities, both functional and aesthetic. As part of our commitment to sustainability and good stewardship, we work primarily with recycled woods. With these materials we seek to create objects of value and beauty.
www.gastboards.com
Thursday, October 2, 2014
The Byron Bay Surf Festival
Lots of new things being added in the countdown to the festival.
So check it out : www.byronbaysurffestival.com/program
25 DAYS AND COUNTING - BYRON BAY SURF FESTIVAL
The Byron Bay Surf Festival looms near. With less than a month until the opening, the full program is online, locked in and bursting with good cheer. Many new events and festival trimmings have been added this year, especially in the realm of music, art and exhibition.
Big music news to announce this week is that our favorite surf-muso Donavon Frankenreiter will be lifting the new Seaview Stage (at Main Beach). Festival partner Sanuk and Low Pressure Sound System present "A Collective of Life Minded Musicians", spearheaded by Donavon and special guests with a one off jam session by Ash Grunwald, Shannon Sol Carol & Oj Newcomb (Band of Frequencies), Dave Rastovich, Scotty Owen (The Living End), Terepai Richmond (The Whitlams), Vinnie LaDuce (Mt. Warning). These legendary musos are playing to raise awareness, inspiration and continued support for local environmental and educational not-for-profit organizations Take 3, Seabird Rescue Centre, and the Burra Jurra Indigenous Surf Program. This comes as an incredibly rare occasion; a colourful mix of surf culture icons and musical talents performing at a FREE family friendly open-air venue surrounded by sustainable brands like Banks in the Tipi Pop-Up Block, next to gourmet food partners Santos Organics, Loving Earth, Chia Co and Allpress Espresso. Across the road, long time sponsors the Beach Hotel and Corona Extra will continue musical entertainment throughout the festival nights.
More big announcements this week include the much-anticipated Australian premiere of the Californian produced 'Expencive Porno Movie' shot entirely on 16mm film in true 70's retro style, showing at the local Community Centre during the festival. This will be an exciting fringe venue, which also hosts a 'GoPro tech-tips' seminar by GoPro guru Nigel Raynard of Unique Images Australia as well as the GoPro photo comp final presented by pro photographer Willem Ungermann who will also host a GoPro beach day for the grommets.
On the crafty side of the spectrum, the festival is hosting a variety of special workshops; Handplane Shaping by Grown Surfboards, Board Bag Making and Indigo Dye by Byron Bay Board Bags and a very exclusive Wooden Fin Shaping workshop by master craftsman and Itako historian Nobuhito 'Nobby' Ohkawa who is travelling all the way from Japan for this event. In fact, this year the festival hosts quite a large contingent from Japan, as well as from the USA.
The Byron Bay Surf Festival looms near. With less than a month until the opening, the full program is online, locked in and bursting with good cheer. Many new events and festival trimmings have been added this year, especially in the realm of music, art and exhibition.
Big music news to announce this week is that our favorite surf-muso Donavon Frankenreiter will be lifting the new Seaview Stage (at Main Beach). Festival partner Sanuk and Low Pressure Sound System present "A Collective of Life Minded Musicians", spearheaded by Donavon and special guests with a one off jam session by Ash Grunwald, Shannon Sol Carol & Oj Newcomb (Band of Frequencies), Dave Rastovich, Scotty Owen (The Living End), Terepai Richmond (The Whitlams), Vinnie LaDuce (Mt. Warning). These legendary musos are playing to raise awareness, inspiration and continued support for local environmental and educational not-for-profit organizations Take 3, Seabird Rescue Centre, and the Burra Jurra Indigenous Surf Program. This comes as an incredibly rare occasion; a colourful mix of surf culture icons and musical talents performing at a FREE family friendly open-air venue surrounded by sustainable brands like Banks in the Tipi Pop-Up Block, next to gourmet food partners Santos Organics, Loving Earth, Chia Co and Allpress Espresso. Across the road, long time sponsors the Beach Hotel and Corona Extra will continue musical entertainment throughout the festival nights.
More big announcements this week include the much-anticipated Australian premiere of the Californian produced 'Expencive Porno Movie' shot entirely on 16mm film in true 70's retro style, showing at the local Community Centre during the festival. This will be an exciting fringe venue, which also hosts a 'GoPro tech-tips' seminar by GoPro guru Nigel Raynard of Unique Images Australia as well as the GoPro photo comp final presented by pro photographer Willem Ungermann who will also host a GoPro beach day for the grommets.
On the crafty side of the spectrum, the festival is hosting a variety of special workshops; Handplane Shaping by Grown Surfboards, Board Bag Making and Indigo Dye by Byron Bay Board Bags and a very exclusive Wooden Fin Shaping workshop by master craftsman and Itako historian Nobuhito 'Nobby' Ohkawa who is travelling all the way from Japan for this event. In fact, this year the festival hosts quite a large contingent from Japan, as well as from the USA.
This is obvious also within the infamous Art
Photography Show with well-known Japanese artists Iki Yasuo, Hi-Dutch,
Kei Otsuka, Kuni Takanami and Yoge Kensuke Yoshida featuring alongside
Australian up and coming artists Kasper Raglus, Kye D'arcy, Josh Rufford
and renowned American artists Andy Davis, Heather Brown, Matthew Allen
and The Captain Surfs of Hawaii. The stART-me-up youth art show and
sustainable craft workshops by Meet Make Create is open for kids to do
their own recycled/up-cycled art and includes awesome fun prizes donated
by local businesses such as a Hot Air Balloon ride up for grabs and
groovy surf gear. Local youth are also represented on the music stage.
Nearby, major sponsors Golden Breed and Uppercut Deluxe will also be
putting on special displays with plenty of historical, vintage
surfboards, 50's cars and bikes. Exhibits well worth spending time with!
With so much choice and variety of things to do, feel, smell, see, surf and create; the Byron Bay Surf Festival plans to keep you busy and entertained all weekend. The Friday night opening film 'Beyond the Surface', the Saturday markets with Tipi Pop-Up Block and infamous Corona Party Wave dash for cash at Wategos Beach, besides surfing and demo events on Sunday will be full of sunny merriment. Almost everything is free, outdoors and fun. For the few ticketed events at the Byron Community Centre and Beach Hotel, get in quickly because they will sure sell fast.
Keep an eye on the ever-mounting program at www.byronbaysurffestival.com, be sure to lock in any flights, friends or accommodations soon and we look forward to sea-ing you there!
With so much choice and variety of things to do, feel, smell, see, surf and create; the Byron Bay Surf Festival plans to keep you busy and entertained all weekend. The Friday night opening film 'Beyond the Surface', the Saturday markets with Tipi Pop-Up Block and infamous Corona Party Wave dash for cash at Wategos Beach, besides surfing and demo events on Sunday will be full of sunny merriment. Almost everything is free, outdoors and fun. For the few ticketed events at the Byron Community Centre and Beach Hotel, get in quickly because they will sure sell fast.
Keep an eye on the ever-mounting program at www.byronbaysurffestival.com, be sure to lock in any flights, friends or accommodations soon and we look forward to sea-ing you there!
Eco Challenge 2014
"At this years event there will be a Wooden Surfboard Challenge (WSC), sponsored by Tom Wegener Surfboards.
This is one of the most primitive and one of the most natural
experiences any person can have surfing. Not too mention one of the
fastest.
WSC will primarily be an experiment session. This format is open to all people irrespective of age or gender on all styles of timber boards in any format; stand up or prone. The winner of this session will be judged by the amount of "stoke" they display in the ocean and from their surfing experience."
www.surfriderecochallenge.com
Jordan's HSC project
Young Jordan Reynolds wanted to do something different for his HSC, and so with his love of surfing he decided to test himself out with building a board.It is Paulownia bagged over EPS and he has done a great job. Here is his project ...
It has been great to help out a young guy who wants to test himself and achieve something like this. And the result is first class. I am sure he has started on a journey that will keep him busy for a while now.
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Quentin's new board
Quentin Delion sent me these shots of his latest project and because his english is not good he said he would let the pictures tell the story. It is a 5' 8" x 20 3/4" x 2 1/2" board with no resin finish.
" I bought a surfboard in New Zealand 6 years ago . I loved this surfboard but I never fix any ding .
So I took out the fiberglass fto use the foam."
So I took out the fiberglass fto use the foam."
He has done a great job and built a very nice board.
He is a very good wood worker as you will see with some of his other projects on his blog http://quentindelion.tumblr.com
Looking for wood ?
If you are looking for a supplier of Paulownia , then Stuart Bywater in Brisbane could be the guy to help you out. Stuart has been running board building classes and supplying the Paulownia and Cedar for the courses , so he is more than happy to help you out as well.
"We have a constant supply of Paulownia timber on hand "
"We can supply you with boards and panels of paulownia 2.4m and 3 meter lengths."
200mm x 8mm rough sawn
200mm x 6mm dressed 2 faces
195mm x 6mm dressed all edges
585mm x 6mm panels
"I can also supply other solid sections by request."
Best to contact me at timber@bywaterdesign.com.au
"We can supply you with boards and panels of paulownia 2.4m and 3 meter lengths."
200mm x 8mm rough sawn
200mm x 6mm dressed 2 faces
195mm x 6mm dressed all edges
585mm x 6mm panels
"I can also supply other solid sections by request."
Best to contact me at timber@bywaterdesign.com.au
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Grain and the 4th Annual Surf Re evolution
An explanation of the event:
We think of the boards we build as an emblem of “re-evolution”. To us, that’s the act of reaching back into the legacy of surfboard design, finding an inspiration, and applying new thinking or new materials to jump over the intervening years, decades or millennia to create something surfers can love today.Because we’re not alone in revering re-evolution, Grain will again invite some very special friends to help us with our third annual celebration of this idea. It’ll be a party and think-fest to remember, split between the beach – for board demos and sunshine – and the shop – for sharing music, art, films, food, drink, and thoughts about surfboard design and construction. You just gotta be there.
Attached is a poster you can share. We're excited to have Jon Wegener, Ed from Enjoy Handplanes here for the event, Pierce and Petra from Misfit Productions showing their new film, What the Sea Gives Me. We'll have lots of hands on activities and demonstrations, local food, beer from our friends at Dogfish Head Craft Brew, and more.
Here's a link to the page on our site, http://www.grainsurfboards.com/buzz/surf-re-evolution-event/
Sunday, September 21, 2014
Paddle out for Geoff Moase today
It was a sad weekend with Geoff's funeral yesterday and his paddle out today.A big thanks to Peter Strum for the shots below.
Geoff's son Jack leads us down the beach
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