Aloha, Lately at Papa Kai, we've been getting emails from all over the place (New York, New Zealand, San Francisco, Italy, Ireland, and more) asking where to buy Paulownia wood.  We do a good job of covering the Hawai'i area, and as much as we'd like to help out other regions with their Paulownia needs, […]

Aloha, I have a bunch of Paulownia wood scraps lying around and figured I'd use one to do a little art project.  I got the design from a Threadless T-shirt, minus Chinaman's Hat of course, which was my own doing.  It took me a couple hours during a few nights when I was just relaxing

Aloha everybody, Ted lives on the Big Island so we shipped some wood to him a few months ago.  He builds amazing ocean kayak type crafts out of wood.  This is his latest creation, the Wavewitch.  We think it’s amazing.  He used a variety of woods to build it as you can see.  Our Paulownia

Aloha, Body surfing is fun in itself.  Add a hand plane and you’ve doubled your fun.  Well, I’m not really sure about the math but let’s just say it’s a lot of fun.  Instead of throwing out those extra couple feet of blank after making your alaia surfboard, why not shape a hand plane.  That’s

I surfed Swami's twice last week on my alaia and it was tons of fun.  Nice little lines rolling through, not much wind, and I found a little nook to hang out in between the inside and outside peaks which lets me snag a few waves.   While I'm out there practically swimming around though,

Aloha, If you're interested in riding an Alaia surfboard this article will help you understand how to paddle them in order to catch waves more effectively. This is part of a larger manual which details the entire alaia shaping process including tips for riding them (found on our site). Anyway, here's the paddling section: ou're probably pretty

This picture of Dan Malloy riding his alaia surfboard is a pretty well known one.  What I notice more then anything though is the bluriness of the photo.  Meant to highlight the speed at which he's riding, of course, it's not uncommon to find alaia photos look like this and for good reason. After surfing

I’ve been looking online and i stores at a lot of wooden surboards these day.  Here’s what I just found on an unamed site that will remains unamed which actually has a ton of cool boards.  anyway, the pricing said that it was $417k.  I don’t know how it’s possible that any board, wood, bronze,

A Wooden Surfboard Blog, thanks for the advice again try to put together a look here in the firstArgentina, I did hope that it will base a little hollow, I wanted work showed, again thanks for your time. Catriel is from Argentina.  She's been talking to us for a bit and just finished her first

I'd love to get into hollow boards at some point.  Ed, one of our customers, is an amazing craftsman…he's going to use Paulownia to make another waveski like this but lighter and better for ocean use.  This are the woods he used last time:   A couple pics of the last waveski are attached. The