Thank You Keith Melville

Events & Happenings
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Keith,

Thank you for your gracious hosting of the SD get together. I enjoyed meeting some of the fellows who post on Swaylocks. It’s nice to put a face to the names. Your Balsa board was really a beauty. Thanks for taking the time to show it to me.

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Muchas gracias Keith. beer, hamburgers, hotdogs, foam, resin and nice bunch of swaylockians = stoke.

Keith cutting out a Fish

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Thanks Kieth

I don’t own a blue van with a dog in it !

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Another Classic! Balsa longboards to Neumatic mats. Thanks Keith and Judy for your house, Mark for guiding the newbies through the powerplaner rites of passage and providing two blanks for practice, and to everyone for showing up and sharing. I left too soon but I hope Jay got a chance to do a swirl. Swayfolks are the best!

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Thanks to Keith and Judy for a great afternoon. Remember Keith, you have cheap labor (me) if you decide to enclose the shaping area.

Walter

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so , what did everyone make ?

any more photos please ?

did you get to have a surf together , too ?

I would love to have been there …

shippy , did you get a group photo / boards photos ?

cheers !

ben

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Thanks Keith,

As always your hospitality out weighs your common sense! I hope the black resin on your newly epoxied coated cement finally kicked. Very cordial of you, such a bunch into your home, very trusting. Shipman and Sting Ray you guys are doing pro level stuff, very nice work. Bill, I hope pinning you into the corner for 1 hr and talking about surf design didn’t turn you off for future events…it’s not every day I get to talk to someone that has been shaping for 50 yrs and has been with it from the begining. And all the rest of you, Scott wasn’t that great! 12 beers, 12oz resin, 12 oz hot dogs…and 12 minutes to resin swirl lam a surfboard @ 12 cc of catalist, when it 12 degrees above normal. We shaped, lam coat, hot coat, fin boxed, semi sanded (then I had to leave, too drunk) and I bet probably surfed the fish board…and it wasn’t done with suncure. That was great!

For all of you that missed it again, too bad, we had fun.

Jay

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Another great day at the Melvilles,good people great host and to much beer and fun.

Thank you for such a wonderful time. Jay thanks for the lesson to all in speed glassing under pressure. Now we have learned how much resin, beer and sun it takes to make a board.

Keith just pm me when you want to enclose the patio.

Thanks again Mark Scott

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Keith and Judy,

thank you very much for your hospitality. The entire day was great. There were even waves in the morning! Mark and Jay…you showed all us newbies how it’s done. We CAN do it! Thanks guys, it was great of you. We had a blast. Definitely my first one will be at Big Sur.

Chipfish…photos after all my honeydoos that did not get done yesterday are finished.

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Here are some pic’s I took at the event.

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Jay thanks for the resin swirl demo, very cool of you.

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here’s the pics…

thanks again Keith!!!

edit; pic 2 is Markssd. Mark brought 2 blanks, aloha and knowledge for us newbies. Thanks Mark!!!

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more

pic 6 is Keith with a Japanese saw up the buttcrack…

Keith has ALL the tools.

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I’m going surfing now…

Jay (Resinhead) showed us how to glass a board. Aloha to match Keith and Mark for sure. I knew I could shape a board but was very reluctant to glass until Jay showed us how. He brought one of his shapes too. Thanks Jay!

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where’s the pictures…

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#12 pic; electric scissors. Told ya Keith has all the tools.

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Great photos!!!

We barely got Shipman out of there in time. He had a previous commitment but I was driving and did not want to leave with all that resin flowing. Great job Jay (Resinhead). You were very cool even though you had a bunch of beer drinking supervisors saying “You missed a spot”.

Looking for the guy who had the little girl on the swing. Josh? Send me a PM. I live less than 3 miles from your house. Let’s go surfing.

Share your stoke !

Ray

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Sorry I missed it: my family dues just crunched my saturday completely.

Too bad, I was really looking forward to it.

d

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i TOO must thank our gracious host, Keith. Your family and your home were most enjoyable.

the day was too perfect, well MAYBE a tad warm(eh, Jay?) but the crew was cool.

the little things about the craft from guys like Resinhead, MarkSSD(will PM you soon), and also

the host Keith, you made me drool with your supplies!!!

thoughts:

  1. ELECTRIC SCISSORS!!! HOLY MAN ALIVE!!!

  2. it AIN’T brain surgery… just surfboards.

  3. re-enforced what i know, and was shown quick tips

    a)work the rail laps from middle to tips…middle out…

    b)nose lap…little tip triangle, who knew??? make sense.

    c)butt crack and the “g-string” technique…

    d)did i mention to work the laps from the middle out???

4)planers are our friends.

5)people on Swaylocks are a treasure trove of information…we might think about a more frequent

meeting schedule??

6)we should make some boards for profit, and bring Chipfish over as staff photographer.

7)swaylock boch? or some beer of the crew…seems appropriate anyway.

8)and final thought…

i NEED more time and materials…funny how that never changes…next board a 4-11 for my 3 yr old…

ETA XMAS…his only request…“make it red!” hmmm…Santa Red maybe???

Michael

P.S. missed Thrailkill, wanted to talk about your “double single fin”…well, maybe next time.

and AGAIN THANK YOU KEITH(AND FAMILY) FOR YOUR HOSPITALITY…UNMATCHED, AND APPRECIATED!!!