Was wondering what odd things you have seen glassed into boards on purpose or by accident?
In 1969, Mike Diffenderfer was touring the Basque coast and he became friend with then french champion François “Murphy” Lartigau. The shaping scene was very primitive back then, and Mike managed to find a blank, some resin and glass cloth and he shaped a board in a friend’s garden for François. As they were getting ready to glass it, Mike noticed a peacock’s feather lying around somewhere and he decided to have it sunk under the cloth on the deck side. Some time later, one of my friends bought the board from François and in turn sold it to my very old friend Daniel (who was helping me glass my very first -disastrous- shapes). This board has a lot of meaning to me: I entered the french championships on it in 1970 or 1971 (what I’m sure of is that it was a long time ago and that I took fifth place -out of six contestants-) and Daniel was riding it on that day in 1973 when both of us very nearly drowned in storm waves that anybody in his right mind would never even have thought of riding… Aaaaaah, but we were young and unknowing…
I still have the board in my attic, although it’s in pretty bad shape:
I have a dry blade of grass in my twin keel wrapped around the rail. Didn’t notice til i was done, d’oh. And my twinny has a few dog hairs in it.
Shifty has done a couple with nice looking actual leaves in the lam…
I’ve seen doilies, Hawaiian shirts, car badges, newspaper cut-outs, pubic hair…
Josh
Hah, that’s funny cause I always figured when I’m famously dead the one thing that would ID my work would be the distinctive DNA of a mutt.