James HX at Shipsterns on a wooden tow board...

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Wooden tow Surfboard at Shipsterns

A few months ago i posted pics of a Wooden tow board i had made for James Hollmer Cross of Tasmania. James is a Ripcurl rider who likes the challenges this kind of surf give him... Anyway i promised pics in action of it...
thanks to Tim Bonython for the images!

james HX in tassie yesterday

pics by stu gibson
nice action of James Holmer Cross at Shipsterns yesterday on the Wooden tow board i made him...
as seen on tonights national news all around Australia & on Sports Tonight show

Tow boards, Tassie waves & tubes

James Hollmer Cross has been enjoying some waves in Tassie over the last few weeks. Albeit cold & Challenging. I made him a new towboard this week. Its made with Wood. It is a Quad Bat Tail. it weighs 8.2kg.

From Woodpile to pointbreak

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Here is a Hollow Paulonia 7'6". If you ever want to feel flow, there is
nothing like the feeling a wood board will give you...

Fish's ready to fry!

Alaias for Bali

This Is the Alaia I Made in Bali, I went to a wood factory on the side of
the road on the way to Caangu. Took it to a shed with a planer and a Sander
and walla... Wood for Riding. Some Tung oil from the Green tree eco store
on Sunset road sealed it up to make it waterproof! Enjoy Nature...

Wooden Deck-Skin

We have some nice Qld hardwood Veneers to add a touch of class & a lot of
strength to your board. Look out over the next few weeks for some nice
examples...

the fastest boards around

Got Wood? Want to Alaia?

We got busy on a flat Day and made a new Alaia for the Demo Range at the Shop. this one is made of Paulonia and measures 6'6"x16 1/2"x 3/4". perfect for most average size surfers. these pics are taken just before Jamie took it out for a christening! He came back from surfing in front of the shop at Tugun with smiles ear to ear. catching waves that you would struggle to get any sort of joy on with a normal board.

wood chop

wow. if you like my wood board, then this guy is amazing...
Shuhei Ogawara spent two years of his life collecting 7,382 wood disposable chopsticks from his office cafeteria, glued them together in three months, and applied a polyester coat to build this 13-foot long, 66-pound canoe.
so... who wants a surfboard that smells like ginger?

wood sounds cool...!

Here is an example of things that can be done with surfboards made of wood. this is Tom Wegener being taught about the sound properties of wood and surfboards. the Teacher is a guy who is an amazing musician who is a professor of Music. he is currently assembling a orgestra of conch players...!

the Hermitage series

This year Diverse will release a fresh board to our line up. We have dubbed it the "Hermitage series" the boards will be Wood based and custom  Shaped and Designed for you. Here is a sneek peak of one in the throes of production.

one-wood

Well, Its almost ready to get wet... When the surf settles here. we have had a miserable week of rain. The water now resembles chocolate milk. I will be more worried about the floating sticks & logs in the water than the bull sharks washed out of the canals! i sanded, Pinlined and Glossed the Quad yesterday in between building a new blank storage facility in my factory. I couldnt wait to finish it so i skipped a Milo surf and cut back and buffed it this morning before i opened the shop. Maybe one day next week i will get time to try it out in some clean peaks at Tugun!

Spin that wheel...

The Paulonia Quad has progressed past the final shape stage, i cut it on our APS3000 shaping machine to 95% finished then cleaned it up with two kinds of sanders. i glassed it today and will post pics tomorrow or monday all glossed & pinlined up.

Got Wood?

Dave has been working on a Paulonia (Kiri) wood Quad. It is made of solid pieces then rough shaped. Then we pulled it apart and cut out most of the centre leaving ribs. This pic is as we are starting to glue it back together. We will post some more pics as it gets finished in the next few Days.