With all due respect to RF and the sailboard guys, GY was doing compsand years before Hoyle stepped his first mast.
I agree. But where or why did GY get the idea. From God in a dream? Walking through a stadium swap meet looking at the lacquered coated coconut bra’s. Maybe building a model airplane kit as a youth?
To me it is a silly question, because compsanding anything is a natural progression for a human designer or builder. That is to say making something lighter and stronger. For instance I had never heard of GY until 5 or 6 years ago.
Now that is only a testimony to my ignorance, but none the less I was influence by compsanders( mostly aeronautical engineers and sailboard makers, holding composite helicopter parts) down the same path starting in 1979.
Now was GY an influence locally or was he a mentor to many, writing the four gospels of the compsand bible? Was he one to hold his cards close to his chest or simply just a genius way before his time?
Now the henry ford of compsands is hands down randy french. You have and a few others have recognized such about randy and that’s why your brute honesty makes us all take a real close look at what we do. It is totally natural to find a better way to do things. There is not much in what we do that already hasn’t been thought of, or tried. But there are only a few who push it and apply it and then offer it to the masses. You are in this category and you are very humble about this influence you have. I know about you because I read the police blotters( actually RR resin) but your new wmd thread is very revolutionary. I look forward to reading it carefully when I get a chance in oreder to understand it better.
On my mission of spreading the compsand gospel I will now say GY is the father of this special art. Thank you for not taking away the inarguable influence of RF also. For too long the blasphemers, nay sayers and haters of RF, ST and compsands will be proved wrong by history.
