The Grain Surfboard company, based in the unlikely locale of York, Maine, produces hand-crafted wooden surfboards that are a thrill to ride and more durable than standard foam boards and even ...

The Perfect (Wooden) Surfboard. Surf’s up! A Maine studio returns to surfboard building’s roots with a wooden, sustainable board. BY ...

Handmade wooden surfboard from designer Jeff Steve Special opportunity to jump the waiting list for bespoke commissions Pick from woods such as redwood and mahogany and include whatever unique ...

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Making a surfboard from foam is of course very cool, but it does not have the tradition of “whiskey planks," which means it will forever be inferior to the process of building a wooden surfboard ...

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 ...

A New Zealand-based surfboard shaper has taken the wraps off what may be the world's most expensive log. Along with a whole lot of sandpaper, Roy Stuart's stunning Rampant wooden surfboard was ...

Early hollow wooden surfboards, such as the "kook boxes" of the '30s, which were ostensibly lifeguard paddleboards, had some peripheral influence, but Hess' thinking was more directly shaped by ...

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.

A surfboard manufacturer used the pandemic’s down time to finalize a hybrid design combining wood construction with a plastic perimeter rail. The pandemic is driving increased interest in surfing.