Autumn Build-Your-Own Surfboard Workshop Dates

Two new seven day workshops will be held at the Grain Shop in York Maine, where you can build your own longboard with the full-time help of the Grain builders. Practically everything you need will be provided during the beautiful days of fall. Click here for more information on our classes. Email or call us at 207-457-5313 to reserve your spot for these classes.

Tuition for the week-long course is $1,575 and covers 7 days of instruction, all materials, including glassing supplies, all necessary tools, shop use, as well as breakfast and lunch for each day. Lodging and dinner are not provided, but we can certainly help you find a great, comfortable place to stay in York.

Grain Gets Down with the Brown

In a "global" economy, shipping often carries greater costs - both financial and environmental - than producing the products being shipped. This month we began a new relationship with UPS who'll now be our primary shipper.  Worldwide, UPS has shown it has an interest in reducing its contribution to world pollution by utilizing more hybrid vehicles, doing extensive research and even developing its own route-planning software to reduce fuel usage. Besides being rated as one of the most socially responsible package carriers in the world UPS also offers us more than the other shippers we have tried.  This translates to more efficiency for us, which reduces costs for our customers and friends.

Free Shipping on Home Grown Kits, Sale on T's & Hoodies

To celebrate our switch to UPS we're offering FREE SHIPPING within the continental U.S. on all of our Home Grown Wooden Surfboard kits for a limited time. Place your order today and have your board ready for those long summer days at the beach.

Also on sale is everything we have left in our inventory of Mens and Womens T-shirts and Hoodies, all 20% off until we re-stock! Note: Small & X-small T's are a great fit for kids.

New Kit Updates

We've been listening to all the kit-builders out there as they make suggestions for improving the experience of building their own surfboard.  As a result, all new kits will now include:

• an updated Builder's Manual - now 170 pages of super-detailed step-by-step instruction. Even the most novice woodworker can build a beautiful and functional surfboard using the 180 annotated illustrations and photos, easy to follow instructions with clear and attainable goals, common pitfalls to avoid and more.
• a library of nose and tail templates for most of the boards in the kit line
• rugged aluminum vent screws with better fitting O-rings

Soon, look for new packaging that makes it easier to store and access kit components as well as CNC-cut tailblocks that simplify building swallow-tail fish. And keep those comments coming - we want to make building your own surfboard the best experience it can be.

Grain Works with CAD

For the past year, we've been developing the ability to use complex 3-D software to design new boards and modify our existing ones in exciting ways never available to us before. CAD lets us take a more direct approach to designing boards because we can see and manipulate them as if we were shaping a board in real-life.  Our old method required us to create the inner structure in 2D on plywood while only imagining the eventual outside shape. Consistent with our come-one-come-all attitude about board building, we want to include everyone in the design process too, so custom board customers and the other builders look over Brad's shoulder - at the shop or virtually through email - to throw in their two-cents on these new shapes. Keep an eye out for some new ones fresh off the drawing board, including a 7'2" Fish and a 10'6" Pintail.

Thanks for your interest in Grain Surfboards, we're happy to have you onboard. Please check our Builder's Blog for updates and news from Grain Surfboards.

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