Wooden surfboards: a lot better than you think - 23 Sep 2007
A Laneo member just sent me a great lead to a small US company that makes, 100% wooden surfboards! GRAIN SURFBOARDS looks like a fabulous little company and when I make it over to the US next year, I hope to be able to check them out. Their whole story is that inspiring.
GRAIN SURFBOARDS are designed by people who surf every time there are waves, from wind-slop to groundswell. As they say on their website “We’re not pros, we just love surfing. When we’re not skipping work to surf, we’re probably watching “Sprout” just one more time, getting stoked. Our wooden surfboards are designed for people like us who love and live to surf.”
On the point of sustainability, GRAIN SURFBOARDS has done, in my opinion, a terrific job about being not only very clear about their work but more so, extremely educational. They have taken the time to put together a very extensive series of informational white papers that you can download from their website (FAQ section) and I have not seen this quality of work in a lot of much larger companies I’m in touch with. Bravo guys!
When visiting their website, take a minute to watch the slide show (Gallery tab). I’ve spent thousands of hours on the web in the past 2 years researching for Laneo and I haven’t come across such a nice refreshing set of photos like these. Superb!
I especially like their mindset where they treat each board as a “personal project”. A company that writes “we’ll always remember where we came from, and why”, shows me that there are a number of people out there today that are living the values the great outdoors and sports have given us.
Great job Mike, Greg, John, Brad & Randy!
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by admin
on 10 Oct 2007
i’d love to try one of those… all my boards are fiberglass and/or plastic. neither of which are great on the env’t.
by Brad
on 29 Nov 2007
Thanks for the kind words – we are as pumped about what we do as ever, and appreciate the feedback on our site. We are lucky to have a great group of people contributing to it (including pro photog Nick LaVecchia who does most of the pictures). Just to be clear – our boards aren’t 100% wood as they are glassed over wood with zero-VOC epoxy resin. There is no foam, and no polyester resin. We are experimenting with bamboo cloth instead of fiberglass, and with a new product called “bio-resin”. Keep up the good work!
by attecaumb
on 07 Dec 2007
very interesting point of view, has never been conceived of this
btw work-clothing