Hi, I’m Eugenio Celli, Italian shaper and surfer, founder of No-Made Boards, and i want to tell you how wooden surfboards are made.
A journey between art and craft that tells the secrets of making a custom surfboard, totally made of wood and made entirely by hand.
The story of a workshop at the foot of the Gran Sasso open to all, where you can learn and build your own wooden surfboard.
A project conceived by me, Eugenio Celli, and Federica Ciarrocchi, directed and filmed by Valerio Di Filippo.
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Alessandro Piu, an Italian pro surfer, after two years of lockdown moves away from the world of competitions for a few days to embark on a solitary and introspective journey in search of himself.
An off-road vehicle, a tent and two wooden surfboards accompany him to the discovery of an unspoiled Sardinia.
A project born in the No-Made Boards laboratory, conceived by Eugenio Celli, Alessandro Piu and Gianluca Fortunato.
Directed and filmed by Gianluca Fortunato.
Dimension
5’3″ x 17 1/2″ x 2 1/16″
Details
Flat deck, Single concave progressive on the bottom, rail tucked under edge and swallow tail are the main features of this board.
This planing hull is the result of a tailor-made workshop.
We shared with our friend Giacomo the lab and the experience in building wooden surfboards to help him transform a board he designed into a Hollow wooden surfboard.
We spent a week together immersed in tools and resin to build a 100% custom board together.
Direction Algarve.
Landed in Lisbon we rented an IndieCamper and it was immediately love at first sight! He was a very faithful travel companion, one of those that everyone would like and he accompanied us in all the stages, first of all Lagos. Atlantic cliffs and beaches, stretched out without borders hypnotize you.
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Never like this time the challenge fits perfectly with our philosophy and completes it! The objective it was to take inspiration combining the use of natural materials and it’s structures to the forms of nature to create a unique wooden surfboard, with a particular attention on its design.
We started to create wooden surfboards for the desire and the curiosity to experiment our work in the water.
The research of materials, the study of shape and the contaminations of surf culture have propelled us to create a design product that can be contextualised in various fields.
Making the first diy wooden surfboard workshop was tiring but exciting at the same time. The guys who participated are very different from each other but they share the same passion and each of them has given us great satisfaction.
Dust mixes with the salt, the shadows of the laboratory blend with the crystalline lights of the sea. We make wooden surfboards inspired by the breath of the sea and the grain of the wood.
This is the story of a longboard and a fabric that has become a nice shirt and something more.