Cornwall Hospice Care / Unique Fundraising recipe for 2025
Take40 Unique Original Steam Bent Belly Boards
Add40 Unique Cornish Artists
Add 1 Totally Original Belly Board Craftsman
Mix41lifetimes of Inspired, Dedicated, Manufacturing and artistic Magic .
Then Stand well back and prepare to be simplyamazed at the results.
The Boards 64 years in the making
Original Cornish Art surely deserves an Original, Pertinent and RelevantCanvas
The Canvas in this case being an authentic, steamed, curved Surf Belly Board
Manufactured using the OriginalPre1960 Brierly/Dennett Electro SteamPress
Hands (Mine!) Shaped, Bent and Finished on Sustainably sourced 9mm 7 ply Okoume
In fact Finished to exactly the same specification as our bespoke Body boards.
The Artists
Previous Artists work for Raising Funds for Cornwall Hospice Care image courtesy of Diane Griffiths
Rewind to September 202238 Incredible Artists were involved in the artistic transformation of 38Redundant Milk Churns kindly donated by Rodda Cream and other private individuals.
The resulting Auction realised an incredibly generous amount of much appreciated revenue for the Hospice.
To view all these truly Unique and Inspirational works of art they can be seen here:- Around Cornwall in 38 Churns
Well my 40 boards each uniquely Hot Iron branded are now safely distributed by the brilliant Hospice supporters.
I cannot wait to see just what a visual metamorphosis these simple Canvases will have undergone.
We are delighted to be enjoying something of a renaissance to supply our natural finished boards, so firstly a great big thank you to you good people who bought them last year.Natural Grain finish Adult Short Board
As a result of your advice and feedback all our traditional “Dancin Dolphin”™ board artwork will be hand painted as shown on this original board, using original blended Yacht & Seaplane Varnish (Scrumble).
In essence returning to the traditional design on our steam formed, hand painted boards that our amazing historic machinery first made.
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To Celebrate the refurbishment of our wonderfull 63 year old Cornish Electro Steam Body Board Press Heritage we produced these amazing “St Perran/Flag” series boards.
Unique design, blending the Union and Cornish St Perran flags and each board complemented with its unique tear off detail.
Strong yet Lightweight, Sustainably sourced 9mm 7Ply Okoume Plywood offers us the opportunity to marry the very best1960’s Surf Bodyboard Press with todays racing yacht spec. materials to produce incerdibly strong yet lightweight bodyboards.
High Gloss UV Stablised, finished in full colour resins that will look great for years.
Steam Bent, using our orignal vintage Bellyboard Press enables us to create your totally original shaped Bodyboard that will give a lifetimes enjoyment.
Hand Made, other than cutting out the basic board we take pride in finishing your board by hand.
Design and masking
Tear out masking being removed prior to dressing and compounding
Red P101 Resin being appliedBoards 6,7 and 8 of 20 showing unique “Tear Off”artwork
The build sheet, All our boards now come with thier original build sheet, this contains all the product manufacturing and design details.
