Above is Master Boardsmith, Roy Stewart, pictured in his "moaning chair". Howard Chappel put it best as:
""The boatbuilder (surfboard builder) is well advised to place a comfortable chair within easy walking distance, but out of sight of the project. When the builder has done some damn fool thing, like cut two left garboards, or put a drill bit through a newly varnished Honduras mahogany panel, they must immediately retire to the moaning chair, until the period of moaning is complete, lest they turn the whole project into firewood.""
4 comments:
Ahhhh yes, but mine is more the cussing chair, but it also is a place to reflect of jobs well done too.
Jim Phillips
"Master board smith, Roy Stewart"
That's really funny!!!
Frank Booth
That's actually my wife's moaning chair, usually I just use a paint bucket. To be precise however it's a seat from a 1979 Bedford Bus.
The kids used to have a saying whenever they were doing woodwork they'd say " Hardchapelle ! "
We've been Chapelle, Edwin Monk,Ralph Sewell, Reuel Parker, Dynamite Payson and Francis Herreshoff fans for many decades.
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