The owner of this board was looking for some information on it and I was thinking "Ho hum, another old board". So I was perusing the photos and giving him the usual info on date (1966) and then...I saw the inscription on the stringer...
" 'Lay some glass on me Jimbo' Thank You signed The Machine Scene"
And then I remembered the board. Or at least I remembered the inscription. We had the board at Keller's Surf Shop in Lavallette. Although it was just one of hundreds of boards we sold out of there through those years the inscription made it stand out in my mind even to this day.
It wasn't totally unusual for the factory crew to write messages on the stringers. Most of the times it was names, messages or "in" jokes on personal boards. On one of my red fins Selby wrote stuff up and down all three stringers before it was glassed.

But this was different. Someone in the factory was making a statement about the shaping machine.