15
Dec
Dec
Give the gift of craft. Buy a gift card for your loved one or surfing buddy and they can join a workshop where they make their own beautiful wooden surfboard.
In this special offer, you’ll also get a free t-shirt with your order.
06
Sep
Sep
South Africa’s third wave seems to be about the longest wave I’ve ever ridden in my life. I wish it would just close out, or flatten out. I think I speak for all of us when I say that I’ll be stoked to see the back of Covid. The social isolation has lent itself, however, […]
20
Jul
Jul
Happy surfer folk continue to build their own wooden surfboards in the wood surfboard workshops at Burnett Wood Surfboards, despite the The Covid pandemic. I’ve hosted a number of workshops and some beautiful wooden surfboards have been made. In a sense, with Covid doing its best to keep us human beings apart, I have appreciated […]
07
Mar
Mar
“If you make it with your hands, then you’ll come to understand,” sings Jeremy Loops in his hit song Mortal Man. Now if ever there was a line perfectly matched to making your own wooden surfboard, then this would be it, and so it was a great pleasure to host Jeremy Loops in the workshop. […]
06
Jan
Jan
Updates post on the next workshops 2020
10
May
May
Wood boards are great to surf. Here’s the first four of 20 selected pictures and the stories behind them, the rest to come in subsequent posts…
11
May
May
Ten years ago I made my first wooden surfboard. It was the start of a journey that has changed – and is still changing – my life, and it’s motivated me to write this post about wooden surfboard life lessons.
04
Jul
Jul
Matthew Kramer was a participant of the first wooden surfboards course that I ran in 2013. Earlier this year I caught up with him for a surf – he subsequently wrote a very articulate account of what his wooden surfboard had meant to him over the years.
03
Jul
Jul
Building a hollow wood surfboard is about discovering the craftsman that is in all of us, about re-engaging the mind with the physical world and rediscovering the natural rhythms of our hands in creating something functional and beautiful.
01
Jul
Jul
The film contains some beautiful images of the land and ocean around where my workshop is in Cape Town.
