“Putain de bordel de merde!!!”
And I mean it…
Oh Crap. Makes me cringe at what was below that waterline. Only thing worse would be a fire.
awful. are you OK, Balsa? you are on a hill top, right?
Yeah Greg, everything is fine for me. I hate mowing my piece of land because the slope makes it impossible to do it with a lawn-mower of any kind and I have to do it all with a rotary cutter (what’s the name for this?), but in such cases it’s great because water runs along the slope but will never rise up to the house or workshop.
It’s the second time in a few years that Axel has to face such floodings. Last time, it was a bit further inland at his old shop. He then moved into this one that was supposedly less exposed… BS…
Anyway, we are relatively lucky here: floodings in the south-east of France (especially the Gradignan area, for those who know) led to 25 dead people and 13 missing, not counting hundreds of devastated homes…
*Edit: that special gun blank that I did a custom stringers job on was lying on the ground of Michel Borel’s shaperoom, leaning against the wall, last time I saw it. I wonder how it looks like now…
Damm… Wish you all the best to recover from that water damage.
These pictures break my heart, I hope they are able to recover. Maybe for once insurance will pay off. Best of luck to those affected.
ps. That gun blank makes my d%^& hard.
Balsa I think you are looking for “weed wacker” Or redneck hair clippers 
I thought he was talking about one of these
That enterprise scares me, everytime I look at it I see a monster barrel ripping the back third of the board off as it churns off the shelf. Bits and pieces everywhere like the grass in the rotary push mower.
My secret is finally out. That is what I used for all those deep Bonzer channels. Mowing foam !
Girvin, this is what I was talking about. Is that a “weed wacker”?
thets why the blues
came from the delta
them rivers just have
their way with everybody
and everything just hap
pens slow.I can hear
the chords on the old guitar
just a couple of repeated chords
12 bar or 8 bar form
from a dry rooftop
echoin’ across the water
mebe ol man river…
mebe swannee
mebe just a moanin
caterwauling cry
when the water goin’ down?
yep …when the water goes down…
we gonna be cleanin up…
…ambrose…
bless axel an them thets down
by the river …
till and replant when it’s dry…
five varieties of basil would be way bitchin.
Yep Balsa, That’s what we wack weeks with.
“My home is in the Delta”
The Wolf that Howled.
What do you do with all that basil?
clicked on the youtube
but it dint work
just another verse for the Blues.
E E7 A
Dirty water surfboards everywhere
Em A
aint no cause to get up from sittin here
B7 Bflat7
til the water goes down blues.
E E7 E E7
sand paper all wet, planer all wet,
E7 A
racks all wet all I wanna do is check
Bm BM7
the surf at the river mouth I know its good but muddy
E
but MY car engine’s all wet too.
…ambrose…
aint no ascap in the flood.
When the Water gets Muddy…“Chilln’s get to Boogie”.
I found a good use of the basil…Got a match?
Balsa
Sorry to hear your friends suffering from the floods but equally pleased you yourself are ok .
Now I may be reading the wrong threads but its an ill wind that brings back the Poet Laureate into my Swaylockian netscape, and better I am for it
cheers
mpcutback
Howzit balsa, I used to have to mow a lawn on a heavy slope and we would tie a rope around the waist and let the guy mow downhill and pull him back up. I see that there is another big storm headed your way, hope you stay dry.Aloha,Kokua
Just got a message from Axel saying he’s terribly busy catching up with orders after several days of cleaning the shop and getting things back to normal. But he did find some time to shoot more photos of the now glassed “Enterprise” and to have test pilot David Leboulch ride a few (bad) waves with it. So he asked me to post these for all of you hungry followers of this thread. He says that “a few details” still have to be worked about on the board and that the waves weren’t good enough to be able to draw real conclusions. But it looks really promising and he can’t wait to take it out in some good waves.
More to come, very likely… Just be patient.
Love it, looking forward to more surf shots!
As for the flame job, is that a clearish white spray on the flame area? Seems to have a different tint on the nose than the rest of the board, looks cool.
Hope your buddy recovers fully from the flood. Thanks for posting the shots.