DIY with Grain Surfboards
Ceto met up with Nolan Collins and the crew from Grain Surfboards to check out a handplane shaping workshop at their awesome new shop in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. As Nolan explains here, shaping your own handplane is a ton of fun for just about everyone: “Today we’re doing a handplane shaping workshop in our new [...]
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Ceto and Green Lightning Co-Create!
Ceto Surf and Green Lightning Surfboards spent a few warm August days together co-shaping a beautiful 7.0 Hull by hand. Materials include Ice 9 sugar blank, Entropy Bio Resin, and hemp cloth. Who knew shaping your own board could be so fun! Green Lightning Surfboards, founded by Michael Emery and Kevin Schoenthaler, offers a unique [...]
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Surfboard Shaper Ashley Lloyd
Just as smooth in the shaping bay as in the water, Ashley Lloyd is a beloved shaper, surfer and musician. Ashley’s passion for the ocean began as a young girl in Malibu, California. By age twenty she was ranked among the world’s top ten women longboarders and began shaping her own surf boards. Over the [...]
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Grain Surfboards
Grain builds boards that have less impact on the environment and more impact on your surfing. Since 2005, owners Mike LaVecchia and Brad Anderson have been building boards made of locally grown, sustainable yield northern white cedar. At their bucolic farm in York, Maine, Grain creates beautiful hand-built wooden surfboards, body boards and hand planes and offers surfboard-building workshops and DIY kits.
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