How Grain Makes Wooden Surfboards
In this episode of Bloomberg Pursuits' MADE series we visit a shop in York, Maine. Grain Surfboards are built through an additive process that has much in common with traditional wooden ship-buildi...
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If you ever saw a wooden surfboard it was probably hanging in somebody's house or underneath a deck But kind of in the last 10 or 15 years wood has made a big comeback They surf wonderfully It's beautiful and it feels great to be on one of them I always had a love for wood and kind of passionate about things that went in the water I've kind of been around wooden boats most of my life There's just so much character The way their built, the stories that come with them A lot of that has translated over to why we build surfboards the way we do When we first started thinking about building surfboards, wood was the natural material we chose They have a very high strength to weight ratio Wooden surfboards have the longest history of use in...
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If you ever saw a wooden surfboard it was probably hanging in somebody's house or underneath a deck But kind of in the last 10 or 15 years wood has made a big comeback They surf wonderfully It's beautiful and it feels great to be on one of them I always had a love for wood and kind of passionate about things that went in the water I've kind of been around wooden boats most of my life There's just so much character The way their built, the stories that come with them A lot of that has translated over to why we build surfboards the way we do When we first started thinking about building surfboards, wood was the natural material we chose They have a very high strength to weight ratio Wooden surfboards have the longest history of use in...
