{"id":29624,"date":"2012-04-03T09:21:40","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T16:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=29624"},"modified":"2012-04-03T09:31:54","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T16:31:54","slug":"grain-surfboards-rolls-into-skateboarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=29624","title":{"rendered":"Grain Surfboards Rolls Into Skateboarding"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Grain Surfboards<\/a><\/strong>, the York, Maine based manufacturers of beautiful, handmade wooden surfboards is launching The Cedar Hill Skateboard<\/a><\/strong> as part of its Offcuts Initiative<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“The Offcuts Initiative is a recognition of our effort to waste no waste,\u201d states Brad Anderson<\/strong>, Grain co-owner. \u201cIn the normal course of producing surfboards and Home Grown Kits, we\u2019ve simply devoted ourselves to finding ways for each off-cut to be used somewhere down the line.\u201d Though the last stop for Grain\u2019s shavings and splinters is as animal bedding or garden mulch, whatever wood harbors even a hint of utility gets saved in the corners of the shop to await it\u2019s full potential.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Cedar Hill<\/a><\/strong> ($250 complete) is a cedar veneer laminate with “SFI-certified sustainably harvested maple.” The top is finished with a \u201cpermanent grip-tape\u201d deck of bamboo cloth laminated with Entropy Eco-resin, and with the distinctive Grain Surfboards logo burned into the deck and bottom.” Follow the jump for more details or click here for more info<\/a><\/strong>.Grain Surfboards launches ‘Offcuts Initiative’ with their new line of hand-built skateboards
\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, April 3, 2012
\nRELEASED BY GRAIN SURFBOARDS<\/p>\n

It lies around the shop in piles, buckets and bins, just waiting for a life of its own. Most people would see it as \u201cwaste\u201d, but a very special corner of Grain Surfboard\u2019s catalogue is made exclusively from it \u2013 wood scraps. These bits of wood, coupled with Grain\u2019s passion for \u201cclosing the loop\u201d have inspired their latest effort, which they call \u201cThe Offcuts Initiative\u201d.<\/p>\n

“The Offcuts Initiative is a recognition of our effort to waste no waste,\u201d states Brad Anderson, Grain co-owner. \u201cIn the normal course of producing surfboards and Home Grown Kits, we\u2019ve simply devoted ourselves to finding ways for each off-cut to be used somewhere down the line.\u201d Though the last stop for Grain\u2019s shavings and splinters is as animal bedding or garden mulch, whatever wood harbors even a hint of utility gets saved in the corners of the shop to await it\u2019s full potential.<\/p>\n

As they previously have with Grain\u2019s line of hand-planes and body boards, these saved scraps seem almost to inspire a path to their own future. And so, when master-deck-presser Courtney Strait strolled into Grain\u2019s shop one day with a collection of her skateboards, the way seemed clear. A plan was soon hatched to laminate a pile of beautiful, leftover cedar veneers together with SFI-certified sustainably harvested maple to create The Cedar Hill Skateboard. Finished with a \u201cpermanent grip-tape\u201d deck of bamboo cloth laminated with Entropy Eco-resin, and with the distinctive Grain Surfboards logo burned into the deck and bottom, this first skateboard to come from The Offcuts Initiative is like no other. With all the perfectly paved roads around Grain Surfboard\u2019s headquarters, the R&D department will be quite busy.<\/p>\n

Grain Surfboards is proud to bring it\u2019s line of handplanes, the Sea Sled body boards, and now The Cider Hill Skateboard, into the new \u201cOffcuts Initiative\u201d program. With this step, surfers, skaters and people that care about thoughtful product development can know that they\u2019re \u201crecycling and recovering the resource\u201d even as they combine their passion for street-surfing or body-surfing with caring for the planet.<\/p>\n

ABOUT GRAIN SURFBOARDS
\nGrain Surfboards is committed to promoting the benefits of building and surfing wooden surfboards and believes that wooden surfboards can have more impact on the surfing experience and less impact on the environment. All of the wood products used in Grain surfboards and kits are sourced from local mills and forestlands in Maine that practice sustainable harvesting. All wood waste from the production of Grain’s boards and kits is actively reduced and creatively recycled. Grain ships surfboards and complete surfboard kits worldwide and hosts week-long classes in which anyone can learn to handcraft their own wood surfboard. Grain is co-owned and managed by Mike LaVecchia and Brad Anderson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grain Surfboards, the York, Maine based manufacturers of beautiful, handmade wooden surfboards is launching The Cedar Hill Skateboard as part of its Offcuts Initiative. “The Offcuts Initiative is a recognition of our effort to waste no waste,\u201d states Brad Anderson, Grain co-owner. \u201cIn the normal course of producing surfboards and Home Grown Kits, we\u2019ve simply […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29624"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29624"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29632,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29624\/revisions\/29632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}