Wednesday 13 February 2013

Handplanes for the Groms...





We gave the Groms a selection of old Thirdshade bodysurfing handplane blanks to shape up - as a bit of a change from fixing broken boards...

They were extremely keen and were soon shaping like pro's and starting to customise their blanks with new hand holes and tail shapes to suit their individual surfing styles. After several sessions of hard graft the handplanes were ready for laser etching of logo's before being oiled to protect, seal and show off the grain of the wood.

The end results looked amazing and the oil was barely dry before they were being given a serious testing in various shore-breaks around the Cornish coast...