Does anyone have any insight as to the dimensions of the old 60’s pigs?
The old Velzy, and Dewey Weber pig shapes and then the new Murphy pig and Dano Pig are the kind of thing I am thinking of
Especially the nose and tail, and how far back that widepoint is and how wide?
Thanks
Hi spicollilives.
this is from the bing website
Bing Classic Pig
Standard Sizes: 9’0” to 10’6”
Nose: 17 1⁄4”
Middle: 22” – 23 1⁄2”
Tail: 16 1⁄4”
Thickness: 3” – 3 1⁄4”
and
http://www.surfresearch.com.au/00000099.html
and
http://www.surfresearch.com.au/00000060.html
I think the widepoints were between -6 and -8 back from the centre
cheers mate!
Cool cool, I was wondering about the weber pig as well. I wonder if anyone has that board’s dims?
It’s a good year for pigs, especially Chinese made ones !
Here is one of Dano’s pignar breadbaskets, unfortunately there are no dims.
I tried Googleing balsa pig boards. There are a lot of pages but no info on dimentions on the pages I looked at. But they were narrow nosed fat assed and seemed to be short for their day. With a round or roundpintail. platty.
http://www.surfboardsbyvelzy.com/http://www.surfboardsbyvelzy.com/
I have a Weber Pig from '64 (Iggy shape) and a Dano Pignar, I’ll try and put a tape on 'em tomorrow.
Here’s the dims:
Dano
T-16
N-16
W-22.5
L-9’9"
Weber
T-15
N-16.5
W-21.5
L-9’6"
How far back is the wide point on each?
and how would you best describe the ride? especially the noseride?
I have no idea about the widepoint. I put the boards back in the shed. Look at the photos. The Dano actually noserides pretty well if you set up right. The Weber is such a beast I just trim it when I’ve had it out. Off to check it, good luck.
The yellow “Pig” shown on Velzy site looks like the wide point point is back pretty far. Another name for that outline might be a reverse tear drop.
On an old (early 60s) Weber I had, the wide point was nearly two feet back of center. The overall length was 9 feet so proportionally, that was pretty far back also.
After analyzing old school longboards like that, I’ve come to the conclusion that the pronounced outline curve, tail rocker and belly made the big blade skegs necessary for any kind of stability.
A peek at old surf movies featuring Dewey Weber show that he could really crank those things around.
I have the template, circa 1958.
Hi John,
A mate of mine from Raglan days ( Marcus James ) had a super Pig board, an aussie 9 footer ( SKY surfboards ) like a massive lazor zap, with a star fin, like this thing was an EXTREME pig, super wide and thick in the tail, with wide point way back, and a late nose flip nose rocker on a narrow rounded nose, anyway the board was radical just hung in the pocket and rolled turns any which way. . Marcus is about 110kg and jammed that big tail around with power. . . . not a noseriding pig buzz, more of a constant roll on the tail, but the best I have ever seen him surf, maybe time to flip the old planshape end for end, what the H ?
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I shaped a pig awhile back out of a 9’-9"W and these where the final dimensions.
9’-3" Length
16" Nose
22.5" Widest point back 12" from center
16.5" Tail
4.5" Tail block
Also I foiled a 1/2" thick marine ply D fin 10"Hx11"B placed all the way back. The bottom is rolled under the nose all the way to the tail.
50/50 rails pinched out in the tail.
At the moment I don’t have any pictures of it but I’ll get around to it soon.
dear all
don’t know if this helps but I designed the following outline basing of old '60 pig (see attached pic).
its dims are:
L: 9.6
W: 23’’
N: 16’’ 1/2
T: 16’’
Tail block: 7’’
I need some suggestions:
Do you think tail block is too wide?
What kind of fin will you glass on? D fin? pivot? something else? what size?
Please feel free to share pics.
Thanks a lot
my 1965 hobie pig: 9’6"x 23"x16 3/4" nose 16" tail 5" tail block 4 1/4" nose rocker 4 1/2" tail rocker. 4 inches thick
Please feel free to share pics.
Thanks a lot
Anything you ask for…
thank you,
but what about fin to mount?
here follows the outline of “my” last PIG (still in project…but coming soon!)
What do you think?
I personally like wider fins (10"-12" base) on these shapes and glassed on all the way back on the tail. Also put a good amount of roll in the tail and don’t make the tail block so wide. Here’s a rough drawing of one that I made awhile back.
