How do we make them?

Sandgroper boards are hand made using multiple layers of fine selected timbers. Each board is pressed and carefully crafted into our unique shape. The curing process for the bonding agents is allowed to run it's full course before careful inspection determines the boards suitability as a finished product.

During the finishing process the boards are hand sprayed with quality varnish to protect the timber against the abrasive qualities of sand when out on your favourite run. Once we have completed the multiple coats, each with the correct drying time [due to temperature and humidity] we can fit the bindings.

We use quality bindings that will stand up to the rigours of hard riding yet provide the comfort needed to prevent foot soreness and chaffing.

After the bindings have been mounted secure and flush to the base of the board, the final process of securing the base [one of the most critical stages] occurs. This final  process is one of the "little secrets" that makes our boards unique so we'll not be saying too much about this part! Suffice to say, it's one of the reasons our boards wear evenly and ride so well...

Due to our quality control and the processes we undergo to create each board we are limited to finishing about 2 boards per day. Each board may take as long as a week to complete.

You can be assured of rigorous standards, quality materials and my personal belief [and one we should all follow] that if something is worth doing, it's worth doing properly.

Put simply, Sandgroper sand boards are  not  ordinary boards.

Chris Smithson May 2003.