there’s a guy on craigslist selling a michael price board that he says was appraised at ‘a cool grand’. “one of the last michael price shaped boards before he moved to costa rica”?
i happen to have a michael price designed board but when i picked it up, i couldnt find any info on him.
i’m also wondering where someone can get a surfboard appraised. lol
yea the spray looks like it was drawn with crayon by a kid.
as for the blue board’s serial #, it’s not really dark enough to read the first character but i’m pretty sure the 2nd two might be an 07. I’m not sure about the rest. i picked it up last year at the end of september. the lady i bought it from said she took it out maybe 10 times all summer. i dont remember if she said she bought it new or not but it looked pretty brand new when i got it from her so it was probably made last year.
sweet, thanks for the info. yea it says double concave funfish right on the stringer. that’s the most readable of everything written on there
it’s a nice board, the first one i bought to learn on. it was just hard to learn (stand up) while covered in rubber on a board that size, again with me being 220lbs and 6’3", so i kept looking for some longer beaters.
i rode it yesterday in some small lowtide waves and i’m hoping to be ready this winter to ride it on some bigger waves.
that michael price in the pics is more bouyant but somehow less stable as well. and it has a tendency to turn/slide to the left if my feet placement isnt perfect.
but i’m still learning so it’s all good. again, thanks for all the info!
Wow don’t know what happened to my post yesterday ?
MD is right - Michael Price shaped in the Outer Banks some years back. He shaped under a couple labels (hot n nasty being one of them)
He left to live in Costa Rica at least 5 years ago, probably more
Last time I was in Hermosa (2006) we went by his house/shop up the hill from “the gate”
I would seriously doubt an appraisal of $1000 for one of his boards, he is a competent shaper but not one that would command that type of money. Sounds like an attempt to pump up the price. Heck a Steve Lis Fish in xcelent condition was on the blocks for $750 - I know which one I would want !
Hey MD I had a WRV fish-type board you shaped about 10 years ago - really enjoyed that board, would love to try one of your “coils”
I recognize that name. He opened a little shop around '87 in the Outer Banks - either Nags Head or Kill Devil Hills, can’t recall exactly - called Hot ‘n Nasty that had a sand floor. It was right on the beach road. His logo was a well endowed chick. Topless I think. Not like an icon, more of an artistic drawing. Kind of like a cartoon. I liked his shapes. I bought a used Mickey Mcarthy New Sun purple baby swallow 8’ x 22" twin fin out of that shop. My first long board. Was originally a custom for Dick Early - well known guy in the area back then but is no longer with us. I never met Michael Price but I remember seeing boards that he shaped well before '87. He was established in the industry by then.
His OB shop closed abruptly within about a year or two. The rumor was that it had something to do with being on the lamb for tax evasion or drugs and that he’d left the country. Don’t know any of this for fact, but it was the word on the street back then. I ‘dated’ a girl that worked in his shop.
The main thing I remember about Michael Price is the girl on that logo with the big tits.
The Mike Price board is not worth crap.The surf blades was probobly shaped by Mike Beveridge.Mike P is on the lam in CR.He left town with credit cards maxed out.Owed rent everywhere.Maxed out bill at Wave Riding Vehicles for materials and on and on.He has been gone for probaly closer to 10 years than 5.Nice guy until he encountered money problems.I know he was a close friend mine