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Two white foam surfboard blanks with red stringers, stacked nose to tail
05:42
low water · 0.6 m · first light 06:10
Cold wax · 9–14 °C

Wax, foam, morning.

One shaper. Twelve blanks a week. Wax poured for the water you're actually in.Surf hardware made before the light, for people who paddle out before it too. No pop-outs, no team, no film. Foam, resin, wax, and the tide table on the wall.

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01 · The blank

Outline, rocker, volume.

0.0 L
volume · 6'2" × 20¼ × 2⅝
6'2"20¼"2⅝" · 32.4 L
OutlineTemplate · 6'2"
RockerNose 4¾ · tail 2⅛
Foil2⅝ at the centre
FinsThruster · glass-on
The outline is the first thing you draw.Off a template, in pencil, on the blank. Everything after is taking foam away from a line. You can't put it back.
Hands smoothing a pale board blank on the dunes, sea behind
02 · The shed

Small, by the water.

12

blanks a week. Twelve. When they're gone, the next twelve are next week.

3

wax temperatures. Cold, cool, warm. Poured for the water, not the shelf.

1

shaper. The same hands on the template, the planer, and the glass.

0

pop-outs. Nothing moulded, nothing imported, nothing with a team rider.

A surfboard standing in the sand at dawn, a surfer on the wave behind

Wax on, before the light.

The best hour is the one before anyone else's alarm. Cold wax goes on cold hands, in the car park, by feel. That's the hour the shed opens for, and the reason it closes at two.

Goods

Three things we make.

Wax, blanks, fins. Not much else. If you need a wetsuit, the shop in town is better at it than we'd be.

Wax · 80 g bar · three temperaturesCold9–14 °C · sticky, soft, poured on Tuesdays

Beeswax, pine resin, a little coconut. No paraffin, no perfume. Smells like the shed.

£4 a bar · £20 for six
Blank · hand-shaped · 12 a week6'2" Thruster20¼ × 2⅝ · 32.4 L · glassed 6+4 / 4

The one on the wall. Other dims by conversation. Four weeks from the pencil line to your roof.

£720 · fins included
Fins · glass-on or boxKeel & thruster setsFibreglass panel · hand-foiled · matched to the blank

Cut from the same panel, foiled to the board they're going on. Boxes if you must. Glass-on if you'll let us.

From £90 a set
The morning

How the day goes.

The shed keeps the sea's hours. Here's a Tuesday.

A hand pressing a bar of wax onto a pale board deck
05:30
Tide check, wax onLow water, first light in forty minutes. Cold bar, cold deck, by feel in the car park.
06:10
OutNinety minutes. The shaper surfs the boards before you do. It's the only test that counts.
08:00
Shed opens, planer onOne blank, outline to foil, before the resin. Foam dust is the smell of the morning.
11:00
Wax pourTuesdays. Two hundred bars, three temperatures, cooling on the bench by lunch.
14:00
Shed closesThe light's gone flat and so has the sea. Tomorrow's tide is already on the wall.
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Tell us your water temperature, or where you surf and we'll tell you. Six bars posted in paper. Blanks are by conversation: write, and we'll ask you what you're paddling out into.

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