Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Glasser's Choice

The exhilaration in making a shortboard lies in the imagination—wondering what lines the board will be asked to draw, what spaces on the wave-map it will be asked to fill.
The shortboard, the thing of it, is a tool. A vessel. It gains us access to something else.
Shaping longboards, for me, is a different experience. The joy in making them comes from the thing itself. Witnessing its taking-of-form—its process is its own end. Not that the lines of a shortboard aren’t beautiful, or that shaping a longboard doesn’t stimlate the imagination. The bend of a nose rocker or the curve of a rounded pintail can absolutely shorten the breath, and walking down the length of a longboard rail is as close to shaking hands with Velzy as I’ll ever get.
But when people are in my shop and there’s a longboard on the racks, they can’t keep their hands off of it.

And sometimes I can’t get my hands off of them when they come back from Leslie’s shop.

This one's got some bells and whistles--blue high density foam stringer, red cedar sticks, opaque pigment volan deck patch, glass leash loop, and some sweet resin deck lines from the hands of La Meistra.
Poplar and bloodwood fin, and some resin tip-nips to keep things real at the nose and rear.
Andale!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Beautiful.
And that fin is sweet.
Can you hear The Patch calling?

HeadHighGlassy said...

Yes I can! And a few other spots, too.
Hope it's calling to you louder than the flu these days...

Kevin Brookhouser said...

Another masterpiece. The longboard is further evidence that English needs the gerundive verb form.

Longboards touchando.

Longboards must be touched.

-Kev

Hapa Papa said...

Sick indeed. Well done.

twin said...

lovely.....!