My shaping room's been overseas!
With my order list growing I could forsee frustration with juggling time in the shared shaping room at our Lam shop...
After pondering options for weeks, I found it forlorn amongst junked cars and trains in the most feral wrecking yard imaginable.
It's glowing with new-found purpose!
Le Chambre d'Amour, delivered today.
It's 20ft long...but NO you can't shape your SUP in it!!!
Now I'm off to the paint shop to ponce around overshades of blue...
Josh
That is cool!! when you coming to wollongong??
Ah crap, i just realised its going to be permanent!!. D'oh!
Hey Beer...
Yep, literally COOL... the world's most heavily air-conditioned shaping room/beer fridge!
Not sure if it'll actually move again for quite some time...but happily some of my shapes have gone to the 'gong lately. I'd love to get there.
Josh
I'll keep a lookout. You dont want to come here, there's no waves here haha ba doom tish!!.
chambre is feminine… we say “La” chambre D’amour…
cheers
I was afraid to open this, not knowing what kind of google ads the title might elicit.
That feral wrecking yard looks like the view from my room's porch/outdoor lounge/seagrape arbor. Junkyard ambiance is the same all over the world, good to know...
“Cool” Ha!
Bonjour Louis and our other French Bro's, Balsa et al...forgeeeeve moi ignoronce! S'il vous plait.
And Mike, yep, I had flashbacks to the Stephen King film "Christine" where the auto junkyard proprietor says in ominous tones:- "Don't know why you want that car (container) son, it's the Ace of Spades..."
But so far so good...
Josh
haha!! too funny!! i like it!!
cheers!!!
ah oui!!
Que c’est beau!!
Hey Wouter,
Indeed thats the connection...I remember footage of "Kong" at Chambre d'Amour. I can't remember what movie it was, just his blazing speed lines.
That, and the fact that my workshop colleague Phippsy who I share the original room with, comes home from Hossegor soon...
Josh
I’ve seen two of your boards recently, one was in the water at my favourite small wave spot and another one heading down the track towards Winki.
hey josh
that is cool, now you can practise your french with an ozzy and try it on the french women one day!
oh la la!
cool to have another shaper in your box to share experiences and thoughts. i always get more excited about shaping talking Mook [swayer] than to myself.
do you do longboards too?
The legend that gave its name to the “Chambre d’amour” in Anglet, France, goes as follows:
A rich young heiress once fell in love with a very poor young man. They would secretly meet in a cave right at the bottom of the cliff, that was only accessible at low tide, One sad day, while they were so much busy kissing each other (and, er…, maybe doing more -this is not clear in the legend-), they didn’t notice the tide coming in and both were drowned, everlastingly united in death… Sigh… Sad, sad story, and a great moral here: young heiresses, don’t go fooling around with tramps or you know what might happen to you…
Well, Speedneedle, we are all crossing our fingers for a young rich heiress to drop by your shaping room and we hope no tsunami happens then…
The cave that became known as the “Chambre d’amour”:
Hey Balsa,
Thanks for that historic link. Unfortunately I already have an expensive damsel, though shes' Russian rather than French, alas!
Josh
Hi Josh! How does Foster beer mixed with Stolichnaya Elit vodka taste?
Hey Balsa,
Much prefer just straight Vodka...and Fosters actually has'nt been Australian for some time now, but I know what you're asking...
Tre Bon!
Chose my shaping room mascot too:-
Josh
