Skip to content
  • Basket / R0.00
    • No products in the basket.

Burnett Wood SurfboardsBurnett Wood Surfboards
  • Home
  • Workshops
  • Custom wood surfboards
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact
  • Shop
  • Login
  • Basket

    No products in the basket.

Uncategorised

Wood on water: Wooden surfboards being surfed

Posted on 10th May 202012th Oct 2020 by tuberide
10
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…

Continue reading →
Posted in Uncategorised Leave a comment
Uncategorised

Wooden surfboard life lessons

Posted on 11th May 201728th Mar 2022 by tuberide
11
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.

Continue reading →
Posted in Uncategorised Leave a comment
Uncategorised

The age of wooden surfboards

Posted on 4th Jul 20166th Oct 2020 by tuberide
04
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.

Continue reading →
Posted in Uncategorised Leave a comment
Uncategorised

“The hand is the window on to the mind”

Posted on 3rd Jul 201612th Oct 2020 by tuberide
03
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.

Continue reading →
Posted in Uncategorised Leave a comment
Uncategorised

Wooden Bones

Posted on 1st Jul 201621st Jul 2021 by tuberide
01
Jul

The film contains some beautiful images of the land and ocean around where my workshop is in Cape Town.

Continue reading →
Posted in Uncategorised Leave a comment
Uncategorised

Return to the reef

Posted on 11th May 201512th Oct 2020 by tuberide

Kalk Bay reef – a shallow slab of a wave well suited to bodysurfing.

Continue reading →
Posted in Uncategorised Leave a comment
Uncategorised

Environment: why riding a wood surfboard matters

Posted on 8th Jun 201412th Oct 2020 by tuberide
08
Jun

With some exceptions, surfers don’t seem very concerned about the toxicity of the surfboards they ride. I fear that the environment as a driver of choice isn’t as high on the agenda as it could or should be. Which doesn’t mean that we’re not on the right path.

Continue reading →
Posted in Uncategorised Leave a comment
Uncategorised

Meet a trailblazing woman who built her own hollow wood surfboard

Posted on 11th Feb 201412th Oct 2020 by tuberide
11
Feb

Between 9-14 December 2013, Burnett Wood Surfboards hosted five people, who all built their own hollow wood surfboards in the space of six days. One of these people was Liezel Gous, the first woman to sign up for a Burnett Wood Surfboards course.

Continue reading →
Posted in Uncategorised Leave a comment
Uncategorised

An 11′ hollow wood surfboard, a whale and a wave

Posted on 11th Jul 201312th Oct 2020 by tuberide
11
Jul

Hollow wood surfboards take many hours to make. But even by the standards of hollow wood surfboards, this 11’ gun is a project years in the making.

Continue reading →
Posted in Uncategorised Leave a comment
Uncategorised

Wood on water video sessions: the flow of the fish

Posted on 10th Apr 201212th Oct 2020 by tuberide

Giving new life to a few old bits of timber.

Continue reading →
Posted in Uncategorised Leave a comment
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • Home
  • Workshops
  • Custom wood surfboards
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact
  • Shop
Products
  • Horizontal surfboard wall brackets R1,350.00
  • Horizontal surfboard wall brackets R1,350.00
  • Horizontal surfboard wall brackets R1,350.00
  • Bodysurfing handplane kit: make your own R1,050.00
Archives
  • Feb 2025
  • Apr 2024
  • Mar 2024
  • Jan 2024
  • Oct 2023
  • Sep 2023
  • Jun 2023
  • Mar 2023
  • Nov 2022
  • May 2022
  • Mar 2022
  • Feb 2022
  • Dec 2021
  • Sep 2021
  • Jul 2021
  • Mar 2021
  • Jan 2021
  • May 2020
  • May 2017
  • Jul 2016
  • May 2015
  • Jun 2014
  • Feb 2014
  • Jul 2013
  • Apr 2012
  • Mar 2011
Products
  • Horizontal surfboard wall brackets R1,350.00
  • Horizontal surfboard wall brackets R1,350.00
  • Horizontal surfboard wall brackets R1,350.00
  • Bodysurfing handplane kit: make your own R1,050.00
  • Bodysurfing handplane kit: make your own R1,050.00
Recent Posts
  • From wood to wave: Create your own wooden surfboard in 2025
  • 10% off all winter wooden surfboard workshop bookings
  • A story of the first wooden surfboards
  • Wood surfboard workshop slots for the rest of 2024: Create your own masterpiece
  • The miracle wooden surfboard shack
Pages
  • Home
  • Workshops
  • Custom wood surfboards
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact
  • Shop
Contact

Patrick Burnett
Phone: + 27 (0) 73 232 3043
Email: burnett.patrick@gmail.com
Physical address of workshop:
Good Hope Gardens Nursery (just outside Scarborough and opposite Cape Point Nature Reserve)
Plateau Road, Outside Scarborough, Cape Town, 7976

Copyright 2025 © Burnett Wood Surfboards
  • Home
  • Workshops
  • Custom wood surfboards
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact
  • Shop
  • Login
  • Newsletter

Login

Lost your password?

Connect to the roots

Subscribe for info on promotions, workshop dates, latest boards and wooden surfboard tips and news.

Enter your email address

No thanks, I’m not interested!