Posts Tagged ‘hollow wooden surfboard’

Here are some of the pictures of the collaboration of Matt Beard and Taiyo Surfboards. Matt is finishing up this board at the Board Art Benefit which will be held at the Sacred Craft Del Mar. The board is an 8′10″ gun, made of redwood, western red cedar, and Port Orford cedar.

Before the board left Humboldt for Del Mar, it was displayed at Salty’s Surf N Tackle in Trinidad for, like, 20 minutes. More of Taiyo’s boards will be shown at Salty’s without notice, so stop by the shop when you come to check waves in the Westhaven & Trinidad area. They have great coffee, and the staff are awesome.

*Attaching the frame onto the bottom panel.

*Milling and routing the Bead and Cove Strips.

*Another view of the rocker table.

Click here to view Building Process (1).

Here are some of the great Kookbox plans. This is where it all began. These boards are not only  the original hollow wooden surfboards but also the common ancestor of almost all of the modern surfboards. We will build one one of these days.

Thrill of the Surf 1949 from Gary Crockett on Vimeo.

Chris from Portland sent us this picture of 11′8″ Sequoia SUP that he built with Taiyo’s frame. Impressive job, Chris!

Here’s the flyer for the hollow wooden surfboard building workshop this summer. http://www.taiyosurfboards.com/class.html
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This is a recently finished 7′0″ Swallowtail Quad. The fins are made of mainly local hardwoods such as Alder and Tan Oak.  The deck of this hollow wooden surfboard consists of Taiyo’s favorite lumbers: Redwood, Port Orford Cedar, and Western Red Cedar, all of which are sustainably harvested from our local forests.

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* Handpicking the lumber… Locally grown, sustainably harvested, and sometimes salvaged.

* Taiyo’s original CNC machine-cut frame.

* Milling wooden planks.

* Assembling the frame.

* Glueing the planks to make the deck and the bottom.

more to come…

Wooden surfboards are far stronger than regular foam boards, but dings do happen every once in a while. To repair a hollow surfboard, as you would expect, requires a different process than typical ding repair. Read on to learn how.

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The Bead & Cove method has been used for building wooden kayaks for a long time, and it has recently been adopted to hollow wooden surfboard construction. These strips are built up to create hollow parabolic rails. Our strips are made from locally harvested Western Red Cedar, which is very light and rot resistant, and you can purchase them from our online store. We understand, however, that some of you wooden board/kayak builders are interested in milling your own strips, and here is the step-by-step instruction of how to do it. Have fun milling.

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Well, the answer to the question is… VERY HARD. You are looking at this beautiful wooden surfboard and about to wax the damn thing. You almost want to leave the beach and go home, forget about surfing, and hang the board back on the wall.

And, if you decide to do so, that’s okay. We understand your decision because Taiyo’s wooden surfboards are just too beautiful to be used, and nobody would disagree. However, for those of you who are interested in actually surfing one of our wooden boards, sooner or later, you have to wax it. And there are ways to make this process little easier.

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Here’s the update on 11′8″ SUP. It might be hard to tell from the pictures, but this thing is HUGE!! Since my rocker table is 12′ long, 11′8″ would be the longest I can do, and this SUP is going to be that length. Surprisingly, though, this board feels really light for how big it is, at least for now. I think it’s due to the hollow construction; the bigger the board gets, the more similar it gets weightwise to the foam one.

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