I have a good Toby story. I had been cutting Pavels here and there but I never dealt with Toby. Somebody else always picked up the blanks and paid me. So I'm having a not so great day. I'm a little grumpy. This guy walks through the door and I'm going "And WTF do YOU want?" I'm figuring this is another wannabe shaper/time bandit. He introduces himself and holds up two 6 packs of my favorite beer. (Belgian triples that were probably clos to 12%) He'd asked around and found out what I was drinking at the time. Sits down and hands me a beer. We had some mutual acquaintances and the conversation flowed, as did the beers. Eventually he gets around to asking me to cut him a rush. As master of the drunken cut, I could not say no. So I cut him his board. He goes over it, measures it up and is stoked. More beer. He over pays the sh!t out of me and asks if he can leave another board in the racks for later mapping. No problem.I knew Toby would win this thread.
So he does. Brings in this nice looking twin fin. A little too anorexic for me, but I could ride it. Anyway we kill the rest of the beers and he leaves. And I never see him again. lol. He sends guys down to pick up machined blanks here and there, but there is never any mention of the board in the racks.
Years pass. Maybe 3? I finally pull the twin out of the racks and decide the storage fees have mounted to the point where the board is mine. So I pull it out and look at it a little closer. Both of the glass on twins are about to pop off. It's like somebody glassed them on with hotcoat resin. Whatever. I'd have ripped one of those fins off in a turn if I had tried to ride it. So back in the racks it goes.
Years pass. I finally decide I am going to take the thing home, knock the fins off of it and re-glass them on. So I have this room in my house where three walls are all taken up with vertical racks. The board goes in the racks. And I procrastinate. Years pass. lol. Every now and then I pull the board out and think maybe I should fix it. But then, I think "What would Toby do?"
Probably nothing. The board is still in my racks.
Anybody want to buy a Pavel twin with loose fins?
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