Lines Converge
We met up behind Moonlight Glassing in North County, San Diego, California to discuss the path that led him to create surfboards by hand and his future as a craftsman in the modern era.
The Beginning:
“I earned a degree in anthropology and a degree in film production in college. After graduating I was in kind of post-grad limbo. That uncertainty was so daunting that I decided to just have a retail job and float around for a while. I lived in this old neighborhood in Oakland that you would not associate with someone who made surfboards. I made a shaping room in my basement and finally had a place to make a mess. I was so hesitant to do a board that it took me three months, just whittling away. My first board came out ok and I was hooked. I realized, “hey, I could do this.’”
A Natural Progression:
My six or seventh board was a red quad fish. I was on the way back from Baja and I stopped by The Greenroom, Rich “Toby” Pavel’s shop.
© Erika Doria, Sean Rowland
