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 ...

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 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 ...

When Mike LaVecchia talks about his profession, he sounds like a man entranced. “Surfing just kind of takes over,” he says. “Once you start getting into it, it’s a hard thing not to think about all ...

Mike Sheldrake makes surfboards, but he does it with a material most wouldn’t mix with water – cardboard. The unconventional cardboard surfboard idea came to Sheldrake 10 years ago after he quit his ...

Frazer Reid made his first wooden surfboard more than a decade ago and now he’s using his talent to give ‘foamies’ a second ...

When Mike LaVecchia talks about his profession, he sounds like a man entranced. “Surfing just kind of takes over,” he says. “Once you start getting into it, it’s a hard thing not to think about all ...