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 ...

SAYVILLE, Long Island (WABC) -- At just 16, Michael Becker was making surfboards in his backyard with his parents financing his project. Now he has his own shop "Nature's Shapes" making custom boards.

Step into the workshops of most surfboard-makers and you'll find a fluffy, snowlike layer of polyurethane foam under your feet. The floor of Danny Hess' Outer Sunset garage is covered with sawdust. As ...