Under the tutelage of Ernie Higgins of Waterlines Unlimited, Micah Wood has quickly learned the craft of board building. From designing boards to shaping, glassing, resin pinlining, glossing, and polishing, Micah has provided himself with rare skills to be a one stop shop. And with great attention to...

John Peck has been exploring ways to optimally ride waves for over 5 decades and it's this research that has lead him to refine his Penetrator longboard design. In this episode of Korduroy's All Yew series, we learn about the evolution of the Penetrator and how John approaches the board creation process.

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After going to a local surf shop in Leucadia, CA, Christine discovered the paipo and became inspired to find a different experience in the water. With an artistic background, making her own boards was inevitable. She dove right in and is now making and riding her own paipos as well as various other surf...

East Coast do-it-yourself guru, Bill Pressly hand builds surfboards in his workshop located in near Boone, North Carolina (a hell of a long way from the beach). In this episode of Korduroy.tv's series "All Yew" we're following up a great interview from the man behind "Bill Boards," and showing first hand...

In this episode we follow Patrick Quealy into work at Plus One Surfboards, where he spends most of his time sanding and glassing. Occasionally he gets the chance to move from resin and cloth to foam. Pat has been able to meet and work with some influential shapers and board builders. Here we see him take...

In this episode of Korduroy's All Yew series we take a departure from pro-level surfers shaping cutting edge surfboards and explore the rootsy business of local San Diego shaper Caleb Wilborn. Shaping his first board at fifteen, Caleb now makes his boards from start to finish by hand from shaping to...

Growing up in the eclectic surf/skate industry mecca of Costa Mesa CA, 21 year old Tanner Prairie has taken inspiration from his surroundings and created a unique surfboard label that focuses on trim oriented equipment through simple, straightforward craftsmanship. 

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A 3rd generation artist, Tyler Warren approaches everything with patience and focus. In this All Yew episode by Korduroy TV, Tyler shapes a 4'10" Simmons inspired planing hull from a stringerless blank. The result is what he's dubbed the "Bar of Soap" due to its slippery maneuverability and silky smooth...

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After getting turned on to his ex-pat brother Tom's alaia designs in Noosa, Australia, Jon Wegener took this idea home to Los Angeles, California. While the alaia design proved to be amazing, the crowded lineups and mushy So Cal surf made the minimalist alaia slide a tough go. So Jon made a foam/wood...

This is the first episode of our two-part All Yew featuring Australian ripper Daniel Thomson. Winning "Best in Show" at the 2009 Sacred Craft Surfboard Expo in Del Mar, Thompson has been shaping his own surfboards since the age of 14. He has quickly made a name for himself with his highly refined hydrofoil...

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In this episode of our two-part All Yew featuring Australian ripper Daniel Thomson, he's putting his 5'5" hydrofoil fish design through its paces in cracking surf. Filmed in California, Australia and Indonesia, the super 16mm surfing footage is comprised of outtakes from the film "Under the Sun."...

Tyler Hatzikian shares his thoughts on the design ideas behind the now iconic board he made for the Jason Baffa 16mm film SINGLEFIN:YELLOW, and throws it around a bit as well. For more info go to singlefinyellow.com.

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San Onofre regular Sam Hann creates an super wide parabolic alaia which he tests out with the help of the hot local SanO crew Christian Wach, Nathan Adams and JJ Wessels. Check out Sam's use of a pipe wrapped in sandpaper for deepening the concave in the center of his board.

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Cordell Miller is an established surfer/shaper from Newport Beach, CA who started surfing when he was nine. When he was 17 and 18 he became one of the standout surfers in California and started getting a lot of different boards from the best shapers of the 1990's. Upon getting a board from shaper Xanadu,...

Cyrus Sutton makes a wooden handplane out of some paulownia wood scraps left over from shaping an alaia and gets some fun rides on a small day in Huntington Beach, CA.

Hand surfboard shaper Josh Hall makes himself a 5 foot, ten inch, four-fined planning hull for speed, drive and maneuverability in small waves. He tests drives his new board in a chest high reef/beach break in San Diego, CA with good results.

In this second part Chad Waldron shares his new wooden, bodyboard shaped paipo with his friends in the reef and beach breaks around Sydney, Australia. Starting out trimming in emerald peelers and ending in a large heaving waves, these guys show the potential tube riding abilities of simple pieces of wood....

Using simple handtools and piece of paulownia wood, filmmaker Chad Waldron (boompodcast.com) makes a bodyboard-style paipo for he and his friends.

In this episode of All Yew, Ryan Burch (6 foot 2 inches tall) makes himself a 5'4" pink fish from polyurethane foam and fiber glass. Combining a traditional outline and self-made wooden keel fins with a concave deck and bottom, thinly tapered rails and more rocker than most fishes, Burch blurs the line...

After shaping the board, making his own fins, and glassing them all together with hot pink resin, Ryan tests out his new board in small summertime surf in San Diego California. He finds the short length, added rocker, light weight and low volume make him have to "work for the board" but as he adjusts the...

Stuart D'arcy purports to have the greenest surfboard factory in Australia. Accepting the use of petrochemicals as the foundation for his surfboard business, D'arcy acknowledges their toll on the environment and takes steps to minimize his impact through conservation of materials. The specifics aren't...

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Australia

In this episode Chris Cravey rides his sewer log out at crowded, summertime Cardiff Reef lefts.

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San Diego

19 year old Chris Cravey shapes and glasses his own 9'6" rounded pintail longboard for the mellow reef breaks around his home. The board is made for smooth surfing, combining features like mellow tail rocker and a rounded pin tail for longer drawn-out turns and a full nose and low nose rocker for long...

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Ryan tests out his 12ft alaia at Cardiff Reef, CA. Because of a slight warp in the board's tail flanges it will only go right (left attempts resulted in the board bucking out the back of the wave). Nevertheless he get some nice rides- check out the flex the board exhibits while trimming.

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In this episode Ryan Burch makes a 12 ft. alaia inspired craft out of pine. No fins just independently moving side flanges in the tail. Painted with oil based paint and sealed with linseed oil and gum turpentine, then two coats of straight linseed oil. A flexy beast.

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