Grain Surfboards - A look at the People of Grain

Video by FieldworkNYC.com who spent a long weekend kicking around the shop with us meeting all the great people we have working with us in York Maine building advanced surfboard shapes of wood.

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• grain surfboards
• Mike LaVecchia
• Brad Anderson
• wood surfboards
• wooden surfboards
• timber surfboards

[GrainSurfboards]

Wood boards don't suffer damage in the same way that foam does. We've had boards on the rocks in breaking surf, and they've gotten only surface damage - as easy to fix as a regular ding on a foam board. The wood is already structural, and doesn't collapse under pressure like foam does - for instance, you'll never see pressure dings on a hollow wood board. In order to get these boards to open up and admit water, you usually have to do to them what you'd do to a foam board to break it in half.

[jasonlajoie]

I love Maine. I lived there for seven years -by far my favorite state in the U.S.

These boards you're making are quite beautiful. I started carpentry when I lived and surfed in Maine. I've often thought of making a wooden surfboard. What worries me about hollow core construction is what happens when it's pierced by a rock or another's fin? Does the whole thing fill up with water and later de-laminate? How can it be dried out? I'm thinking a solid (light wood) wooden board is safer.