VLVL(6) Ch 11 Note - Greg Noll Lab

[Matt Treyvaud]

On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Peter Petto wrote:

> In the late Fifties, he opened Greg Noll Surfboards in California. Once,
> one of Noll's shapers, Ricky James, cut his own thumb off with a power saw
> while working in the shop. At the emergency room of a nearby hospital, Noll
> talked one of the nurses into letting him have the thumb. He went back to
> the shop and dropped it into a cup full of resin, which left it suspended
> in a clear, hard cylinder. 

Just like Ear in M&D.. kinda. I suppose it doesn't matter that sound
doesn't travel too well through resin, because thumbs don't hear. But its
relentless opposability probably made that shop feel really alternative
and counter-cultural. 

Matt