Workwear Spotlight

Lewis Wood

We sat down with our friend and talented cabinetmaker and skateboarder Lewis Wood to discuss the pros and cons of working for yourself, building epic skate obstacles, his favourite Volcom skater, and how his Volcom Workwear has been holding up for him out in the wild. Take a look!

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VWW was built on a foundation of creative liberation. What’s one way you express yourself creatively?

I just started making some furniture out of a house I demolished a few weeks ago. That’s creative, I guess?

Tell us a bit about what you do?

I’m a joiner/cabinetmaker by trade but I’ve been working as a carpenter for the last 10 years.

Have you always wanted to pursue this line of work?

Not really. I never knew what I wanted to do. I fell into my joiner apprenticeship by almost accident and the rest came naturally. Pretty stoked at where I’ve ended up.

Who showed you the ropes?

Kieran Drake was the first one. He got me a job at a joinery shop when I was like 15 or 16. Proper grom. He taught me the basics for sure. Cheers Kiz.

Where are you located and how far and wide do your jobs spread?

I’m in Manly. Most my work is around the beaches. Try not to cross the bridge if I can avoid it.

Who do you skate for?

Parlay Skateboards
Boarders Skate shop
And Volcom Workwear!

What’s the best skate obstacle you have ever built?

I’ve made shitloads. My favorite was probably this curved flatbar I welded up when covid started last year. I found this funky looking piece of steel on site. It had a natural curve to it, almost perfect but I got the excavator driver to run over it a few times and bend it a little more and turned it into this gnarly flatbar that would shoot you up in the air at the end. We called it the rhino. A few people got flogged on it. Jake almost got impaled.