No, I’m not a troll and no you are not a dumb old sh!t, old maybe, but not dumb… Uninformed, but I flew pretty far under the radar with what I was doing… In the extreme niche of hollow wooden boards some know my name…
I did have a pretty sweet alternative income and reason to travel for more than a few years… I’ve taught 30 workshops internationally and domestically… I fell into a sweet spot of timing with Clark Foam closing and the resurgence of alternative methods, Through no deliberate planning, I was the first to contemperize what Tom Blake started…
My boards are not like Roy’s… Completely different method and philosophy.… Also, what Roy supposedly sold his famous board for seems to be rumor or speculation… I’m doubtful… Roy is now an accredited building inspector in New Zealand…
One day in 2005 I got an email from a guy in Ireland saying his son wanted to build a board and he thought there were other who might too… We signed up and I taught over a dozen that first class… I was invited back the next year, then Portugal, France etc… Without planning, I had a business model…
My workshops took five days for an individual to assemble, shape and sand… A collaborative group could do it in three days…They had to take care of the exterior glassing on their own afterwards… It’s a pretty simple process and not speaking the native language was never a barrier… I was in country typically two or three weeks with the workshop centered in that time…
A construction company in San Diego commissioned some boards to represent their company values… Mine was uniqueness… Such an honor…
I am now fully retired, but here’s my website >>>
http://www.hollowsurfboards.com/
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