Making a surfboard from foam is of course very cool, but it does not have the tradition of “whiskey planks," which means it will forever be inferior to the process of building a wooden surfboard.

Get out from behind that screen and build something with your hands this summer. How about a beautiful wooden surfboard? Before fiberglass and foam surfboards, there was wood. Surfers made boards from ...

A new exhibition at Hazelhurst Arts Centre, which opens on Friday, traces the evolution of the wooden surfboard.

Just steps away from San Francisco’s Ocean Beach is the studio of surfboard shaper Danny Hess. Along with two furniture designers and a signmaker, Hess converted an old gym into a shared space known ...

Hobie Alter could have called it quits after his first surfboard, crafted from a heavy balsa wood in his father’s Laguna Beach garage. But, “he didn’t like that board,” said Dick Metz, who had met ...