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Topic Title: Agave wood board? Topic Summary: Created On: 11/27/2023 01:28 PM |
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- ww | - 11/27/2023 01:28 PM |
- johnnyboy | - 11/28/2023 10:31 AM |
- johnnyboy | - 11/28/2023 10:31 AM |
- ww | - 11/28/2023 03:40 PM |
- johnnyboy | - 11/28/2023 05:45 PM |
- ww | - 11/28/2023 07:16 PM |
- Retread | - 12/02/2023 06:51 AM |
- pompano | - 12/04/2023 02:53 PM |
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11/27/2023 01:28 PM
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I doubt that agave wood makes really good blanks. Almond Surfboards is a Costa Mesa oddball, promoting surfing for ordinary people, and taking advantage of small waves.
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11/28/2023 10:31 AM
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Cool shapes. I must confess, I have a bit of sticker shock for those prices. I get it but I am getting old.
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11/28/2023 10:31 AM
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Cool shapes. I must confess, I have a bit of sticker shock for those prices. I get it but I am getting old.
------------------------- "One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky. |
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11/28/2023 03:40 PM
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Looking back historically, wood planks and, especially, hollow wooden boards stuffed with table tennis balls to ensure flotation must have been expensive, not to mention later balsas.
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11/28/2023 05:45 PM
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The tennis balls is new to me. Did it work?
------------------------- "One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky. |
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11/28/2023 07:16 PM
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Ping pong. I heard of that from an older printmaker at a sale in Portland. He mentioned being from Santa Cruz and I politely asked about surfing. I got the hollow wooden board story in return. I should have bought one of his etchings--he was a pretty good disciple of Rembrandt.
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12/02/2023 06:51 AM
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Gary Linden, well known surfer and master shaper (look him up) has been making agave boards for years - long boards, short boards and Jaws/Mavericks style guns. He's known as the Agave Master. Personally, I look at agave as balsa's ugly stepsister as I think it is a fairly unattractive wood color and grain wise. Give me a chambered balsa, redwood or cedar board any day - no veneer kits allowed... (woodworker for 50+ yrs)
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12/04/2023 02:53 PM
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I would love to shape an agave blank! I've got a Balsa blank I got from Ricky some years back that I just talked to him about at his Christmas party about shaping next year with a bit of his help. A mezcal fish would be AWESOME.
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