The inside of a wooden surfboard looks like the skeleton of a fish. And it only gets more beautiful from there. The entire process of making a surfboard from wood (most surfboards are made from foam ...

To find the headquarters of Grain Surfboards, turn away from the beach. Drive 10 minutes past the steepled church in York, Maine, past the clam shacks, past the farmstand that advertises Fresh Corn, ...

Get out from behind that screen and build something with your hands this summer. How about a beautiful wooden surfboard? Before fiberglass and foam surfboards, there was wood. Surfers made boards from ...

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Duncan Lyster, a fourth year physics student at the University of Exeter has founded Lyster Surfcraft, creating lightweight wooden surfboards that perform as well as their polyurethane equivalents.

In the spring of 2005, while building a wooden boat in York, Mike LaVecchia pondered ways to use his boatbuilding skills to construct a wooden surfboard. "It just came to me one day," he says. The ...

The woodpile in Martijn Stiphout’s Aptos workshop is an assortment of curiosities, with lumber salvaged from a Victorian mansion, a guitar maker’s scrap heap and the ashes of beach bonfires. Stiphout, ...

Getting your homemade surfboard noticed in this town full of surfboard shapers is about as easy as getting barreled your first time surfing. That is, unless you have a board that rails the edges ...

Long before surfboards became the slick sticks you see today, they were heavy wooden monstrosities wielded by an elite group of cut-up watermen. “There was a power to handling those boards,” said ...