I posted this on another site, but thought I would bring it over here for the fun of it. Anything sound familiar, either in the distant past or recent? McDing " You mean eat dust, get that gooey crap between your toes and on your elbows, itch like crazy. Forget to clean and powder your hands before you take a piss and chemical-burn your private parts. Then when it’s done you notice how crooked your lam is and those big grimy paw prints on the rails from when you flipped it to cut the lap. Only to find out that the cheap hardware store masking tape you bought is now a permanent one inch pinline. Then your thinking; “Well, it doesn’t look that bad.” So you take a step back and notice that one rail is closer to the stringer than the other. You tell your buddies down at the beach that it’s an “asymetrical”. You think you’re doing alright, going to survive their close scrutiny of your “bitchin” shape, until one of them says: “Hey man, aren’t those fins supposed to be towed in and not pointin’ out like that, dude?”
I’m shaping my first tomorrow. The vision I have is this perfect shape coming out - flowing rails and a perfect tail. There’s also a great paint job and a gloss that’s so good I’ll use it as a stand-up mirror when not riding it.
Then there’s also the reality vision - the one where little kids and small pets run away from it shrieking in terror…
HerbB
Good luck, Herb! It will probably come out somewhere between those two visions…
PS Don’t forget to back up and look at your blank from a distance once in a while. It helps…