Sugar Mill Glassing is looking for a glasser. Salary + Full benefits. Great gig. Call us for more details…
760.721.1677 Ask for Mike
180 Roymar Rd.
Oceanside, CA
92054
Good luck! All I ever hear from my customers is "I want to shape my own board" "I wanna learn how to shape". Yada Yada Yada. Nobody ever tells me they want to be a glasser. What's up with that? It gets downright depressing! Glassing is a very honorable trade. I'd come and do it if I weren't so busy with my own stuff. At least you offer benefits.[;-]
Howzit Leslie, It’s been that way forever, shapers get the glory and their name on the boards. You hardly ever see a glassers name on a board, you will sometimes see the glassing factory name but not the glasser himself. Plus Shapers can make more money than a glasser. When I started putting my Kokua Fberglass lams on boards the shapers were a little put off but I told them to bad,if they want my glass work then I want some my lams on the boards,in the end they were OK with this. They even found that they got some customers because I was doing the glassing of their boards. I think the chemical thing also is a reason people stay away from glassing and we used to say that once you become a glasser you spend more time in the shop and less time in the water.Aloha,Kokua
Water? What water? Where? (Laughing out loud!)
Leslie------Was that your work in the recent “Surfers Journal”? My compliments if you are one and the same. Dark colors, opaques and irregular surfaces = high degree of difficulty. Very nice work!
Yes! Thats me! Thank you so much for the kudo’s! The boards were not as hard as the thoughts of how hard they might be…except for the window thingy’s. The hard part was laminating around those very blunt noses and still keeping my rail laps at 3" or so. Otherwise…just a bit of patience and a bunch of extra time. Meyerhoffer is a great person to be working with, so that helps. Stress? WHAT STRESS?
Dark colours are always a challange. He has a bunch more very nice photo’s on his website. www.meyerhoffer.com. Makes me look WAY better than I really am. Keep your magnifying glass in your pocket! It’s so FUN to be working on thigs that are “Outside the lines”. I have some other strange projects coming down the pike also, and I will post them when the designer’s say it is okay.