The inside of a wooden surfboard looks like the skeleton of a fish. And it only gets more beautiful from there. The entire process of making a surfboard from wood (most surfboards are made from foam ...

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.

Mike LaVecchia likes his wooden surfboard because it’s a little heavier, and therefore a little faster, than conventional foam boards. And he likes the fact that wood is a renewable resource, so his ...

Pete Claydon working on a surfboard in his workshop.An article in a surfing magazine introduced him to the concept of hollow wooden surfboards and as a furniture maker, and a keen surfer, he decided ...

To find the headquarters of Grain Surfboards, turn away from the beach. Drive 10 minutes past the steepled church in York, Maine, past the clam shacks, past the farmstand that advertises Fresh Corn, ...

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 ...

The woodpile in Martijn Stiphout’s Aptos workshop is an assortment of curiosities, with lumber salvaged from a Victorian mansion, a guitar maker’s scrap heap and the ashes of beach bonfires. Stiphout, ...

Step into the workshops of most surfboard-makers and you'll find a fluffy, snowlike layer of polyurethane foam under your feet. The floor of Danny Hess' Outer Sunset garage is covered with sawdust. As ...

“Surfers are so connected to nature, but they’re divorced from the impact foam boards have on the environment,” says Brad Anderson, cofounder of Grain Surfboards. To build a better board, he and ...

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.