Roger Hall from New Zealand just loves to build wooden boards that showcase his skills and once he gets started he is a driven man on a mission.He has been a great supporter of mine with the Fish Fry and The Wooden Board Day. So I asked a good friend and his blogger Mike to send me a few pictures and words of his latest project.
" Getting a txt message from my friend Roger Hall at 5.00am about a covert raid on locally grown Agave storks is not unusual, in fact it is all part of the fun ride that I have been on with Roger for nearly a decade."
" Roger, my good friend, great surfer and amazing shaper has been on the hunt for all and any species of timber that he can get his hands on was rather stoked when Phil a long-time friend and Ruakaka local visited the Surfline Custom Surfboards factory with three Cabbage tree trunks recently, so with a stash of timber and the Wooden Boards Day in Currumbin AU just around the corner Roger got thinking."
"A chambered Cabbage Tree timber gun with Agave feature beams on each side ?, yip that sounds a good idea !', and so weeks later after milling, drying, gluing, splitting, chambering and re-gluing Roger has a fully shaped wooden big wave charger.Documenting this process has been a gas, with only glassing to go, the mission is nearly complete."
"Sadly this year I will not be at the Wooden Boards Day to help Roger showcase this board and a few little surprises he has up his sleeve but there is no doubt in my mind, that this craft, not unlike the others he has displayed at previous events will have jaws dropping.Big thanks to Grant Newby, a super nice guy and event organiser, if it was not for Grant some of these creations may never have happened and there would be nowhere to display them."
Michael Cunningham
Mike will be unable to come over for the Wooden Board Day as he is about to become a dad again , so busy times ahead for him and his family.
