What You'll Get

Hands-on Education - Under the expert guidance of the team at Carve, you are the craftsman. Each Carve experience is totally hands on, with no woodworking skills required. You'll work from the Carve shop in Lyons, Colorado, and learn about every step in the process of creating custom boards.

Build Your Own Board - You build it, you bring it home, you ride it. It's that simple. And awesome.

Description - The Carve long board building experience covers basic woodworking as it applies to skateboard construction (no wood working skills required). We'll provide you with pre-pressed decks but you'll also have the opportunity to press a single deck firsthand to experience the entire process. You'll then be sent to your shaping station to begin bringing your skateboard to life.  This will involve cutting, shaping, drilling and sanding your deck until it's fair and smooth.

At this point you'll choose from a variety of stains and paints to decorate your board if you choose. This is a full day experience starting at 9am with an additional half day for folks who would like guidance in the application of grip tape and installation of hardware. This half-day option will also be necessary for those who choose the engraved graphics and/or the polyurethane finish.  Engraved graphics and poly finish are not included with price of the class. All additional class information is listed below. Happy shaping.

Limit of six people per class.

Location:  527 4th Ave Lyons CO, 80540

An adult must accompany participants under the age of 18 (unless previously approved by the Carve team).

Cost - $235.00 per board (hardware not included but available for purchase)

10% discount for sibling sign-ups

Included in Class:

Material for one 8-ply deck

All tools and safety equipment

Grip tape

Custom Options:

CNC Engraved Graphics
Carve Top Logo $35.00
Bottom Logo $50.00
Poly $55.00 

Date: 

September 20, 2014 starting at 9am

 

 

Description - Join us for a 10 week course where you will learn the art of wooden board construction and walk away with your very own Carve SUP built with your hands. No tools or woodworking skills required. Class will be held on Saturdays.

An adult must accompany students under the age of 18 (unless previously approved by the Carve team).

Limit of four people per class.

Cost - $2,250 gets you the class and your own 10'6" custom board. An 11'6" board costs an additional $200.

Included in Class:

All materials, hardware, and safety equipment to construct and shape your board. Participants have the option of taking their boards home for final glass and finishing touches.

Custom Option:

Carve can handle the final glass and finishing touches for an additional $575 ($675 for 11'6" board).

Carve began in the minds and hands of Ryan and Jamison Witbeck in the spring of 1999. While building their first handmade 50’ wooden catamaran, Allura, they began working out designs for the surfboard line. For the next ten years, the boys pursued their boat building and chartering careers in the US Virgin Islands, building yet another 50’ catamaran, Kekoa. Throughout this time, the brothers continued building and designing what would become the Carve surfboard quiver, keeping the surfboard dream alive. Finally, in 2011, Ryan left the Caribbean and moved back to Colorado to bring the board business to reality.

Carve found its new home in Lyons CO, where Ryan quickly built the team that would put Carve on the map. Carve, for the last year, has been located at The Farmette in Lyons, in a humble board shop next to the Farmette Creek. With more of the shop located outdoors than indoors, increased demand and harsh winters have driven the boys to seek greener pastures.  Luckily, fate took pity on the cold and damp crew and opened up a rental space in downtown Lyons.  Putting the cart in front of the horse tends to light a fire under one’s rear, so fear of failure be damned!  We’re taking Carve to new heights!