Balsa shaping web site

Where do you get this video. > >>>> Videos are great to see how others shape, but they are not easy to find. hmmm, I believe it is just for shops to play inside the store. I’m not sure how much you could learn from the brief footage, it’s just sort of cool to see regular contributor Jim working away.

In America we can think that all these resources are at an endless supply. Just go ahead and shape a few wood boards and broadcast it over the inernet. Simple … Maybe step back and think about how many trees, in ecuador, are being cut down for such a futile indever. Maybe watch the video of “the genius”, step back and appriciate how bitchin that is… In america I can do… more than anybody.

In America we can think that all these resources are at an endless supply. > Just go ahead and shape a few wood boards and broadcast it over the > inernet. Simple … Maybe step back and think about how many trees, in > ecuador, are being cut down for such a futile indever. Maybe watch the > video of “the genius”, step back and appriciate how bitchin that > is… In america I can do… more than anybody. In America we can flaunt our smug, self-righteous ignorance while we embark on the “indever” of condescending to whomever we may anonymously find on the internet. We don’t have to bother realizing the correct spelling of “endeavor” or the validity of any other “facts” that we spout. We point fingers at people carving wood by hand while never considering the fact that we are typing on a plastic keyboard that we (or our parents) purchased for us, whose technology will be obsolete within months, and will eventually sit in a landfill for millenia. We will then purchase new plastic, mass-produced, computers, perhaps picking one up and throwing it in the back of our new cars. Oh, how we “appriciate” living in America. Why couldn’t we be born into a more self-aware region (Lebanon, Russia… whatever bastion of idiocy that you come from?) We never concern ourselves with our own actions, for it is so much easier to finger point at others, regardless of how ignorant, misguided and misinformed we might be. http://www.albersbrothers.com

YOU GO BOY!!! Could not have said it better!!! How could taking a few trees for somthing as pretty as one of Jim’s boards be a crime when forest’s are being clear cut to make crappy cookie cutter houses that will fall down long before one could wear out a fine balsa surfboard. cheers Bro, Scott.>>> In America we can flaunt our smug, self-righteous ignorance while we > embark on the “indever” of condescending to whomever we may > anonymously find on the internet. We don’t have to bother realizing the > correct spelling of “endeavor” or the validity of any other > “facts” that we spout. We point fingers at people carving wood > by hand while never considering the fact that we are typing on a plastic > keyboard that we (or our parents) purchased for us, whose technology will > be obsolete within months, and will eventually sit in a landfill for > millenia. We will then purchase new plastic, mass-produced, computers, > perhaps picking one up and throwing it in the back of our new cars. Oh, > how we “appriciate” living in America. Why couldn’t we be born > into a more self-aware region (Lebanon, Russia… whatever bastion of > idiocy that you come from?)>>> We never concern ourselves with our own actions, for it is so much easier > to finger point at others, regardless of how ignorant, misguided and > misinformed we might be.

Mike’s laments are more like the little boy who cried wolf. Usually these pleas are junk science designed to teach us how liberals and the government know more than we do about what’s good for us. They act like they are soooo concerned about the pooooooor balsa forest. However, I’ve read that Balsa stripping has exceeded balsa regrowth for so long that we will soon cut them all down. I say, “Skrew the balsa forest”. But I wanna keep using balsa, and I want some left for future generations. I only wonder how the Easter Island dude felt after cutting down the last remaining tree to roll that final tiki another two yards. Must have been tough watching his family starve in the cold. Somebody’s gotta watch the balsa supply. We have to start planting balsa. We don’t have to start listening to socialists. I read that co2 helps feed tropical tree growth. I think I’ll go buy that new SUV and burn some more fossil fuel.>>> In America we can flaunt our smug, self-righteous ignorance while we > embark on the “indever” of condescending to whomever we may > anonymously find on the internet. We don’t have to bother realizing the > correct spelling of “endeavor” or the validity of any other > “facts” that we spout. We point fingers at people carving wood > by hand while never considering the fact that we are typing on a plastic > keyboard that we (or our parents) purchased for us, whose technology will > be obsolete within months, and will eventually sit in a landfill for > millenia. We will then purchase new plastic, mass-produced, computers, > perhaps picking one up and throwing it in the back of our new cars. Oh, > how we “appriciate” living in America. Why couldn’t we be born > into a more self-aware region (Lebanon, Russia… whatever bastion of > idiocy that you come from?)>>> We never concern ourselves with our own actions, for it is so much easier > to finger point at others, regardless of how ignorant, misguided and > misinformed we might be.

In America we can think that all these resources are at an endless supply. > Just go ahead and shape a few wood boards and broadcast it over the > inernet. Simple … Maybe step back and think about how many trees, in > ecuador, are being cut down for such a futile indever. Maybe watch the > video of “the genius”, step back and appriciate how bitchin that > is… In america I can do… more than anybody. Well with balsa, it is more of a gigantic weed than a tree. It reaches maturity in 5-6 years, if it isn’t cut it runs amuck like the castor plants here in California. It doesn’t have many uses, break away furniture and props in the movie industry, insulation in the huge liquid petroleum ships and filler in the fiberglass boat industry. The lowly amout of wood used buy us is a mere drop in the bucket. One super tanker uses more that all of the balsa boards ever made. http://www.JimtheGenius@aol.com