Our History
Timberline was born out of a collaboration between Point Concept and Wolfe Surfboards. Raphael and Ryan first met in March of 2005 when Raphael ordered a 5’10” twin fish from Point Concept. Raphael’s order was one of the first boards put out with Ryan’s new label.
Shortly after, Raphael began building hollow wood surfboards as a hobby, but became frustrated with the now popular building methods. The boards had to be engineered instead of hand shaped, and did not yield the full benefits of a hand shaped board.
We then got together and designed and built a 6’10” retro singlefin with the hollow methods that Raphael had been using. While the results were good, it lacked the very fine details that can be achieved with hand shaping.
We began experimenting with ways to further blend the best of each style into the other. Everything between new hollow styles to fully chambered boards, each was based around paulownia wood. But none fully integrated all of the features that we knew we could achieve, and knew were severly lacking in other wood boards and build methods.
A lot of hard work and wood chips later, we’ve come up with our current building method. We are both extremely happy with the boards’ evolution and our finished boards.
Timberline was born out of a collaboration between Point Concept and Wolfe Surfboards. Raphael and Ryan first met in March of 2005 when Raphael ordered a 5’10” twin fish from Point Concept. Raphael’s order was one of the first boards put out with Ryan’s new label.
Shortly after, Raphael began building hollow wood surfboards as a hobby, but became frustrated with the now popular building methods. The boards had to be engineered instead of hand shaped, and did not yield the full benefits of a hand shaped board.
We then got together and designed and built a 6’10” retro singlefin with the hollow methods that Raphael had been using. While the results were good, it lacked the very fine details that can be achieved with hand shaping.
We began experimenting with ways to further blend the best of each style into the other. Everything between new hollow styles to fully chambered boards, each was based around paulownia wood. But none fully integrated all of the features that we knew we could achieve, and knew were severly lacking in other wood boards and build methods.
A lot of hard work and wood chips later, we’ve come up with our current building method. We are both extremely happy with the boards’ evolution and our finished boards.