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 ...

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 ...

SAYVILLE, Long Island (WABC) -- At just 16, Michael Becker was making surfboards in his backyard with his parents financing his project. Now he has his own shop "Nature's Shapes" making custom boards.

Trying to revive the art of 1930s hollow wooden surfboards and expand the “sustainable surfing” movement, seven surfers recently took a four-day board-building class. On March 7 — day two of the class ...

A New Zealand-based surfboard shaper has taken the wraps off what may be the world's most expensive log. Along with a whole lot of sandpaper, Roy Stuart's stunning Rampant wooden surfboard was shaped ...

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 ...

Just steps away from San Francisco’s Ocean Beach is the studio of surfboard shaper Danny Hess. Along with two furniture designers and a signmaker, Hess converted an old gym into a shared space known ...

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 ...