i have here a '63 gordon and smith with a wild green-o style poly carbonate fin box that i know nothing about…
anybody seen these…or know where i may be able to get different styles of fins for this box…
thanks
peace tj
Going by www.surfresearch.com.au, I’d say it’s either a Wave Set or Safe Set fin box. Not in production anymore, but it’s likely you could make one or find one on ebay. I think someone makes fins to fit that box, but I don’t remember who.
Almost positive that it’s a wave set box. I think you could only find molded plastic fins for it. Pretty sure glass fins were to difficult to manufacture. I made one for a customer in glass once and vowed “never again”. It was no fun. There’s a guy that makes the plastic ones, last time I saw them was at one of those longboard collector mettings in north san diego county. I’d contact Bill Bahne at fins unlimited, and if he doesn’t know I’d try Danny Brawner in san clemente. Good luck!
Yeah there is a guy in Cal that made a mold and sells them for about $100. I’ll see if I can dig up the contact info.
949 643-8002
From his email: “These are replacement fins for the Wave set. I had the mold made. They are made of ABS plastic. The fins were not normally curved at the end. I sell them for $100 each. The shops get $140, they are not an easy item to find. If you are local you are welcome to come bay and check the fit and pick out a color. The style that I have is the only one available and is probably the same as the broken one that you have. Thanks for your interest.”
Talked with him once about the same fin you have. Seemed cool. Give him a call if you need one. There is also another site that sells slightly different wavesets but i’ll have to dig for that.
thank you! good info. will check out the websites! the guy who i bought the board from told me the fin was worth 100 bucks, sounds like he was right.
thanks again
wow you guys are good…
super info…
go to the source
ask morey
he’ll know who what where when why and how
what a bitchin board score
dont lose it on the rocks
you will hate yerself
sooooo mint
walking while its up on a rail turning
and gliding
time your curl line glides in advance
anticipating wave changes
oooooooooooooo wwwhheeeeeee
cool girl
is she a nurse yet?
…ambrose…
ambrose… i am a nurse now! yipppeee… its the freedom ticket 4 sure. i found that g & s a few weeks ago. rode it that first day… can hardly carry it to the beach… with it’s restored gloss coat it weighs about 37 pounds. i love it. no riding near rocks. only sand.
…and she is a fast, fast board. wow.
nellyda
get a job in san diego
at scripps hospital
ride it at La Jolla shores
the gods sure shined
their grace down upon you
the day that board found you.
good job lass.
…ambrose…
yay nellie belle!
ok- first, 1963 it ain’t. That’s a long base WaveSet fin, and the nicest one I have seen in decades. Literally decades, that fin has, in my estimation, never seen the water. Those pale brown lexan fins scuffed up so fast it was silly.
Call it late - ahmm, 1968 anyways. At the absolute earliest. G&S made repros of some of their earlier shapes to order throughout the '70s and '80s, my goombah Steamer John Capistron got a Farrelly replica made for him with with a Bahne box in it sometime in the late '70s when his original finally died off.
hope that’s of use
doc…
docs right again, the waveset boxes were used throughout '68. the long back of that finbox looks like white resin since those boxes are the same length front and back. might have been put in to replace a glass on fin 'cause the board looks earlier than '68 and the white extends to where the back a fin would have been placed.
erwin spitz is the guy that has the repo fins in plastic and is in laguna hills. problem is that they’re the same GORDON AND SMITH HIGH PERFORMANCE fin that you have. it was the most popular shape.
it is, actually, a 1963. i bought it from the original owner. he installed the fin box in '69 because he and his friends were stoked on the new fin set ups that were coming out. cut out the original fin he did, put in that one, and the fin in it now has been there ever since. and it has seen lots of sand and water… totally beat up. and of course, i have been surfing her. 7 hours today, in fact. she’s a beauty!
Welcome back and congratulations Nellyda. Congrats on the school and that sweet old board. It definitely looks like it would be a blast in a whole lot of waves. Just last week I finished fixing up my old 70 something Hobie diamond tail. Wow, those old=heavy boards are fun. That advice about going to Scripps is right on too. There arent too many hospitals closer to the beach, it is the reason I am going to school here. Adios, Darren