Hello all, new to this forum and look forward to sharing with you all. I’m an LA native and always looking to expand my knowledge in my two passions, JiuJitsu and Surfing. This year I started building hollow wooden surfboards in Brazil, under the guidance of master shaper David Weber (https://davidweber.com.br/br/ ) from Paulownia and other materials. After building my first board, I was hooked, and together with David we built another 8 boards for an exhibition in Florianopolis Brazil (i’ll include some pics below).
Since returning to LA, I’ve been trying to find a good bulk supplier for Paulownia, Agave, and Balsa in California, or at this point anywhere in the contiguous 48 ! Anyone have any luck with finding a supplier, or can point me in the right direction, I’d be super grateful. In Need of a supplier ! I’m looking to buy in bulk quantities.
Here’s a few pics of my first board and the process; the last pics are of some of the boards we made for the exhibition.
Thanks !
** uploaded a bunch of pics before the error msg stating maximum of 5 per post… so had to limit to these; if anyone is interested in seeing more of the process, or other boards we made, give me a shout. Cheers !
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