KING CUSTOM SURFBOARDS

 King Surfboards.

According to Surfresearch this logo 

has the board dated to 1961.

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 It measures in at.

9' 6 3/8" x 20 3/8" x 3 3/4"

Nose 16"

Tail 16" 

Pod 5 1/2"

The stringers are inlaid.

The bottom stringer runs down the centre line as usual.

The deck has two stringers.

The left side runs from the corner of the pod

in a curve to the nose.

The right side runs from the other corner of the pod

straight to the nose.

Both stringers are off set at the nose.

 The original fin had been removed

so that it could be displayed 

deck up against a wall.

 The bottom needed to be re laminated.

After years of exposure to UV

and only having one layer of 6oz cloth

 it was extremely weak.

 Two layers of 4oz cloth 

were added over the existing layer of 6oz cloth
 and lapped onto the deck. 

 Bottom lams on.

 Top and bottom gloss coats.

 A new fin had to be made.

9" x 11" 

 Bottom foil.

Finished.

Enlarge image to see the stringers. 

NEALE TAYLOR TUNNEL FIN

 This board is a Neale Taylor tunnel fin.

Neale Taylor ran

Taylor's Boatshed at Woy Woy on the

NSW Central Coast.

Where Fishermans wharf is today.

These two logos appear to be

business cards.

 

 Pre restoration.

9' 3 1/2" x 21 1/2" x 3 1/2"

Nose 16 3/8"

Tail 15 3/8"

Pod 3"

 

 Four views of the fin.

It is made of chopped strand matt.

The resin was pigmented yellow.

As were the original stripes.

I suspect that the fin is not original.

There are the remains of two nails

in the stringer, in the tunnel

which would have been used to

position a single fin.
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 Gloss coats down.

New pigment stripes under the gloss.

 

 Very flat rocker.

 

Finished.



CENTRAL COAST SURF DESIGNS FLYER PINTAIL

 This board is a 7' 

Central Coast Surf Designs

single fin flyer pintail.

Built at the Wamberal factory

in 1975/76

Bill thinks it may have been

 a personal board.

 Pre restoration.

Visible repairs on the tail.

 The bottom was in such poor condition

the glass had to be removed.

It had pretty much completely delaminated

and was covered with stress marks.

The white patch is the old repair

mentioned in the above image.

 New bottom lam down.

 Prepped and ready for some 

pigment work to hide the 

old repairs.

 Deck glossed.

 Deck logo.

This is a logo used at 

AGE surfboards when Bill worked there.

It is also the 

Bing Surfboards 'Maui Foil' logo
circa 1969.
Bill told me that he stopped
using the logo when he found out
it belonged to Bing Surfboards.

 Typical mid 70's foil.

Very refined. 

With the original fin.

The finished product.

HOHENSEE POCKET ROCKET

 Hohensee Surfboards

Pocket Rocket

1968/69

 378.

N.M.

Nick Masarm 

8'4" x 21 1/4" x 3 1/2"

Nose 16"

Tail 9 1/4"

 Hohensee ad.

Nick Masarm at centre

holding board.

 Up Down rails.

Up in the nose,

down in the tail.

Heavily rolled bottom at nose 

running away to a  flat tail behind the fin.

 Greenough stage 3 fin.

Base 7 1/2"

Height 9 1/4"

14 1/2" up.

 Flat rocker.

Finished.

Not much was needed to be done to this board.

The tail tip needed replacing.

The tip of the fin was missing

and needed replacing.

A heavy sand, gloss coats 

top and bottom.

New pin lines.

Wet and dry sand to 1500.

Polish.

9' 2" GORDON WOODS

 This is a pretty refined Gordon Woods.

With the large GW on the bottom.

I think 1965/66.

 Every once in a while a board turns up and

when you look through all the dings and other damage

you think wow this board has something.

This is the case with this board.

Its owner saw the same thing and this is why

it has been restored. 

9" 2" x 22 1/8" x 3 1/4"

Wide point 4" 3" from pod.

Nose 16 3/4"

Tail 17"

Pod 5 3/4"

 I've restored a number of boards for the owner.

He likes to contribute to some of the work involved.

So it has been travelling between the two of us for 

close to 12 months.

 So the two images above is how it was 

when I received it.

Glass removed, rail dings cut out

and dings sanded ready for glassing.

 There was a large delam on the bottom nose.

This was prepped and re bonded.

The pod was badly damaged.

A cedar tail block was added. 

 Tail block.

 The large original GW on the bottom

had delaminated and had been pumped full of resin 

in an attempt to re bond it.

This resulted in the logo being pumped up above 

the level of the bottom of the board.

As it wasn't clamped or weighed down.

It was removed and replaced.

 The 12" fin was removed and a large 

delam underneath was re bonded.

The CSM fin had two layers of 6oz added per side.

Cleaned up and reset.

The board has a really nice bottom curve

and semi pinched rails.

Finished.

The gloss coat was wet & dry sanded

by the owner, returned and polished by me.

The main objective was to get the board

back in the water. It was heavy to start with

 and with all the work done there was a worry

that would become to heavy. 

So no pigment work done on the obvious repairs

in an attempt to keep the weight down.

Young Sydney surfer
Keyo Rhodes
and the GW at the
2015 National Old Mal titles at
Crescent head.

REVERSE D FIN GORDON WOODS No 4462

 This board is a Gordon Woods

reverse d fin.

No 4462.

With a 1 1/4" balsa stringer and

 1/4" Western red cedar side stringers.

 Pre restoration.

Numerous dings around the rails.

Alot of water stains.

9'4" x 21 3/4" x 3  9/16"

Nose 16" 

Tail 14 3/4"

Pod 4"

 The balsa stringer needed replacing

at the nose due to dry rot.

The cedar was fine and did not need replacing.

 Re bonding the delam 

under the fin.

 Typical early 60's foil.

Note the leg rope loop

at the pod.

This board is a rider.

 The CSM fin was cleaned up

and 2 layers of 6oz cloth

was added per side
before being reset.

11 1/4" high.

9 1/4" base.

1 7/8" from pod. 

Finished.