Re: Credit where credit is due (rant).
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 4:41 am
When I started making my Royal Egyptian Cubit Boards, I reached back several thousand years to give Bobhotep of Buto credit for pioneering that style of board. I made up my own History about how he was a scribe for a small construction company...small tombs that is. He was travelling from Buto to Cairo for some sort of bean counting seminar, and he was wading through some shallow water in the delta, when a rogue wave reared up on him. He leaned away from it, and ended up catching the wave and riding his lap desk sideways across the tributary. Some kids up on a sand dune witnessed the whole thing. The Jinn was out of the bottle. Thus began the era of the cubit board mini paipo.
It was easier than admitting that I don't really know where my ideas come from. It's sort like a soup where I can only really name a few of the ingredients. Or a rope made of tiny bits of gathered string. Roger Wayland was surely a big influence on my sub 2 foot boards. Also the guys at Kailua that eventually produced those little twin fins under the label of The Handboard Company. I'm not really sure how may brain gave the mini paipo an Egyptian twist. Perhaps I should give credit to Gomez Addams.
My cork-decked paipos were surely influenced by reading Paul Jensen on Swaylocks. He used thin layers of cork to build out the rails on his hollow wood surfboards. But it was something wierd in my head that told me to use cork sheets to raise the bouyancy of a plywood paipo. Perhaps I was influenced by the old surfboards that mixed redwood and balsa together. So anyway.... I can't always give credit where credit is due. I just go with the flow, and eat the crazy soup.
It was easier than admitting that I don't really know where my ideas come from. It's sort like a soup where I can only really name a few of the ingredients. Or a rope made of tiny bits of gathered string. Roger Wayland was surely a big influence on my sub 2 foot boards. Also the guys at Kailua that eventually produced those little twin fins under the label of The Handboard Company. I'm not really sure how may brain gave the mini paipo an Egyptian twist. Perhaps I should give credit to Gomez Addams.
My cork-decked paipos were surely influenced by reading Paul Jensen on Swaylocks. He used thin layers of cork to build out the rails on his hollow wood surfboards. But it was something wierd in my head that told me to use cork sheets to raise the bouyancy of a plywood paipo. Perhaps I was influenced by the old surfboards that mixed redwood and balsa together. So anyway.... I can't always give credit where credit is due. I just go with the flow, and eat the crazy soup.
