Crazy sum's him up pretty good. charging 20k for a board is about as crazy as you can get.

Oh, I dunno about that Mozz.... he knows where his market is, he hand makes his product from the best wood, and if a stickbait is a fair and reasonable price at $200 (at least), then a surfboard which has probably about 100 stickbait size bits in it priced at around $20g would be pretty much bang on the money, wouldn't it?
Oh, and there is a lot of paulownia being grown here these days, 10-15yrs back there was a lot of interest in growing it, as it has a lot of very interesting uses etc. It is (apparently) the lightest hardwood, doesn't warp etc, and is used in the top-end cabinetry in asia. I bet you can buy it here.

Sorry got it wrong by about 500k Capt A 

fish i wrote: There is this crazy feral hippy cat who lives down Putaruru and shapes surfboards out of Paulowina. He imports it.

I'm of sound mind and am not a hippy, nor do I import paulownia.

I do however make surfboards and I have paulownia offcuts available for fishing lures.

Regards
Roy Stewart
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Roy Stewart wrote: fish i wrote: There is this crazy feral hippy cat who lives down Putaruru and shapes surfboards out of Paulowina. He imports it. I'm of sound mind and am not a hippy, nor do I import paulownia. I do however make surfboards and I have paulownia offcuts available for fishing lures. Regards Roy Stewart [email protected]