Tyler Frome and Martijn Stiphout
makes some great boards in Santa Cruz at their Vetana Surf Co.
Born from a passion for surfing, the ocean and the environment, Martijn
and Tyler started building their own boards to marry these elements
together. They made a conscious choice to avoid toxic foam and polyester
and started working with wood, experimenting with traditional and
modern board shapes, fine-tuning construction methods and honing their
wood-working and shaping techniques.
Martijn and Tyler build hand-made custom boards, wooden hand-planes, and
other wood products. Each product is unique and is built to last.
Whilst the boards are still coated in Epoxy resin, the wooden
construction method produces very little waste: almost every piece of
scrap wood finds life elsewhere, the saw dust is collected and recycled
and Martijn and Tyler are actively researching and testing less harmful
cloths and resins. Recycled wood boards are in the works for the future
and fortunately there are promising developments with bio-based resins
so that an entirely environmentally safe production will be possible in
the future.
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