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.

SAYVILLE, Long Island (WABC) -- At just 16, Michael Becker was making surfboards in his backyard with his parents financing his project. Now he has his own shop "Nature's Shapes" making custom boards.

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 ...

"People love the look of wood." Tom Wegener, a former world-class surfer who now makes surfboards in Australia, said wooden boards make up less than 1 percent of surfboard sales. But interest is ...

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.

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 ...

Frazer Reid made his first wooden surfboard more than a decade ago and now he’s using his talent to give ‘foamies’ a second life, writes Roger Cox Sign up to our Scotsman Rural News - A weekly of the ...

NEW BUFFALO, MICHIGAN - Ken Cole prepared to seal what he called the aesthetic part of his project — a surfboard made primarily of Colectivo coffee bags and palm leaves. He called it the sealing of a ...

I asked about a year ago, but thought I would try to tap the hive mind again..<BR><BR>I used to shape and glass surfboards as a hobby about 8 years ago. I would shape boards for all my friends and ...