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I'm chasing Dr S and a few other guys.



My wife calls it the Golden Calf.


The whole story is here:
http://www.flexspoon.com/forum//viewtop ... 32&forum=6

Mark
HEY DUDE
How is everything going

After looking at the pics I see the aftermath of the hurricane
fallen palm fronds everywhere

hope all is well ...lol

Just wondering if it would work as a thruster?????
send one over and I will test her out ... lol

cheers matee and take care

Tony

Hey Tony,
You're trying it our here, remember? After the Worlds, you're flying on to Miami and we're taking her out to the islands. You'll need a little 85 degree water to stop the shivering anyway.

As for your thruster comment... Do you want to set spoons back 40 years? Think big beautiful powerful flex fin. You'll know why when you ride it.

Peace in Christ...

man of war

after a few wines and a view of Emil Noldes work, then a view of your spoon making photos I decided to join this forum just so I could write the following line.

Thankyou for sharing your work.



these half naked savages are dancing around an early golden spoon carried acrossed the desert by "kneeboardus erectus maximus". Note how they are covering the spoon with their bodies to save the secret from prying eyes.

http://www.flexspoon.com/forum//viewtop ... 32&forum=6

actually being the "kneeboardus erectus" i notice the boobs 1st thing!! heh heh. then wonder why walk accross the desert when ya can just drive to da beach? lol and whatcha gonna do with a spoon in the desert? ride the sand wave?

Dear Bart,
I just did a search on Emil Nolde. It says he was a German impressionist, temperamental but deeply religious (as we can see), who joined the Nazi Party early on, only to watch them later ban all of his art as "degenerate."

It also says he was the only German to ever kneeride the rapids of the Elbe River, and that he did it on a experimental spoon of wood from the Black Forest. Fascinating stuff.

a bitchen labor of love M.O.W., some very nice craftsmanship there.

8, thanks. "bitchin" is high praise.

I'm learning a little bit more on each one. I may just keep making these. The mold has made it much easier, really cut down on the hours.

No matter how they look, though, the real test is in the water.

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Ahhh...the cleanest line in Florida!

MOW (Mark),

I just checked out your link to "the whole story" above:

http://www.flexspoon.com/forum//viewtop ... 32&forum=6

Those are great pics and text: you're creating the definitive on-line spoon building guide! Classic lines, but using some new materials. And the french bread looks positively scrumptous!!

after going to the other link (great stuff MOW) you realize why the spoon wasnt mass produced. that other link is very inspiring.

Here's more inspiration, two classic pics shot by Eric T of So FL, ex-pro-bodyboarder turned spoon lover--he's making one now.
He took them at the GG Exhibit in Santa Barbara, I believe. McT recollections.
He was the one who transferred George's ideas to stand-up boards, igniting the Short Board Revolution.

cool pics

I'm still of a mind that the bowl entry is not functional (nice to see I agree with Bob)
I'm a philistine, but I'm designing a more modern front end:
Less bowl - that much side to side curve simply is not needed I'm staying flat at centrline, drawing 1/2 or so up at the rails
More fluid entry rocker - why sacrifice all that's been learnt in the past 40 years? Bring the rocker in progerssive, but nice and slow to a low point under the weight (somewhere just in front of midpoint)
Smoother water entry = less start and stop and faster top speed

Oh, yes, I'm going a bit longer, too ( to stop a 4'10" from nose diving!)
I'll post pics when I have design complete.
Whence to saving $$$ for the glass job (you don't expect me to do it myself, do you? - no time, no space, no skills)