Wood burning

Summer has come very early and we have fires on our doorstep already. Thank god no loss of life and so far limited loss of property. My friend Darryl Snow took this amazing photo on Sunday. See the helicopter in the lower right corner, like a mozzie in the smoke.

A million boards burning.

Wood souls at AKWA Surf party Sat Sep 5

A hollow wood quad by Peter Wells of wood souls will be at AKWA Surfs big first birthday party. AKWA will also have a special display of 3 hollow wood boards by Peter for sale over the Christmas holiday break.

Check out the boards and all the specials this weekend at AKWA on the Princess Highway in Milton on the beautiful South Coast. And wander across the road to the Commercial Hotel for the pre summer Beach Party.

The Alley Wood Surfboard day

With a huge thanks to Grant Newby.
This was a great day on the sunny Gold Coast in August. At least a 100 boards and 20-30 builders attended with a constant crowd of interested lookers. The boards covered the whole spectrum of wood surfboards from Bill Wallace's 20 foot toothpick, to Roger Hall from NZ's beautiful multi-timber solid speed diallers, alaias, longboards, kneeboards, belly boards. Beautiful balsa single-fin guns from Dick Brewer and Richard Harvey. Builders came from the USA including Paul Jenson, Japan, New Zealand, and all over Australia.
Lots of information and pure stoke.
Check Grant's blog http://www.woodensurfboards.blogspot.com/
and also http://treetosea.org/ in the anything goes section under Currumbin wooden board day
Looking forward to next year!!

Flex tails... well maybe

A first attempt to harness the flex of our woods in a hollow wood surfboard.

Well it was an attempt, more to come! I discussed the ideas with Paul Jenson, Roger Hall and others up at Grant Newby's wonderful wood board day at Currumbin on the Gold Coast. Lots of new ideas to play with. But for now it is a big fish. Maybe I should drink more beer to bulk up and flex this tail?

Its a mothership

Seventeen feet of mothership distractions from wood surfboards. But still filled with wood soul.

A toe in the water

This early quad fish, 6'1" x 21", was an experiment all round. I used a bead and cove method to build up the rails and simple panels of paulownia and western red cedar for the deck and bottom. Add some ply fins and ready for a trip to Scotts Head to test it.
Life is good.

Things of wood for sliding

A simple blog on objects from wood. Most are for sliding, on water and snow, but some are simply beautiful. Let it live and bring more beauty to us.