Get out from behind that screen and build something with your hands this summer. How about a beautiful wooden surfboard? Before fiberglass and foam surfboards, there was wood. Surfers made boards from ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

On a recent mid-winter day, the York barn-workshop for the wooden surfboard maker Grain Surfboards smells like sawdust and woodsmoke. On weekends, the workshop is often buzzing with classes, but ...

Wooden boards make up a minuscule portion of the surfboard sales worldwide, and it'll probably always be that way. Still, there are pockets of demand for wooden boards among collectors and surfers who ...

ANN ARBOR, MI -- Carson Brown thinks surfing the Lake Michigan waves should be plastic-free. It is part of the reason he makes wooden surfboards. Brown, a graduate student at the University of ...

Familiar Faces – an introduction to some of the less than well-known, but familiar York faces. YORK — What does a surf shop in coastal Maine do in the middle of winter? Make boards, of course, and ...

Surfers are some of the most ardent environmentalists, yet their sport is awash in petrochemicals and carcinogens, from neoprene wetsuits and urethane leashes to polyurethane boards and epoxy. Danny ...