michael price designs, hot n nasty surfstix

has anyone ever heard of michael price?

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

any info would be appreciated, thanks!

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well i guess hunting down michael price is a good enough reason to go to costa rica.

:smiley:

Can’t help with the MP questions, but I may have shaped (at very least I designed) the other board in the pics.

Turn the blue-railed one over and see if my signature’s on the bottom.

I’ll check it tonite!

It’s hard to read everything that’s written on the stringer of that one since it’s a sanded finish.

I do know it’s a 7’6" funfish. I’m not 100% on the width or the thickness.

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Can’t help with the MP questions, but I may have shaped (at very least I designed) the other board in the pics.

Turn the blue-railed one over and see if my signature’s on the bottom.

yea, it looks like your name is on it. good call! that’s amazing you remembered that board.

it’s a nice board though for my size (6’3" 220lbs), i think i could have used something a little thicker to learn on.

we’ll see how i do on it this winter after practicing on a longboard and that 7’11" hot-n-nasty this summer.

I didn’t really remember that particular board, it’s just that I recognized the design and it’s a WRV, so I knew that

I shaped it (or one of the other guys did it off templates I supplied). I hope you enjoy it. Now back to our regularly

scheduled programming… Where’s Michael Price?

ha, no clue.

so you might not have any history on that blue board, eh? any memories that might give it more character?

If you can give me the serial # I can tell you when it was shaped and where it was glassed (either at

Larry Pope’s place here in Florida or at WRV’s Outer Banks facility). I might have some memories but

need all the help I can get.

cool, i’ll see if i can find it when i get home tonite.

I’ll give you a couple of clues in case you have trouble deciphering my scribbles on the bottom:

If it has an F at the beginning of the # it was glassed in FL. The two numbers after the F would be the year,

i.e., F07 would be '07, F08 would be this year, etc. If there’s no number under my sig other than the dims

of the board (and the serial # is written elsewhere on the bottom), then it was sent to the Outer Banks and

glassed there.

Michael Price still is’nt putting his hand up…

Mystery Guru shaper commanding “Appraised Price” of a “Cool Grand…”

I think I smell an attempted Craigslist Con.

But definately that spray should rate it hung in the MOMA New York, right?

Oh yeah…

Josh

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.

Sounds like it was made last year and probably sold out of the VB store. Does it say ''double concave

funfish’’ on the stringer itself? And the brand of foam should be written on the wood also. Probably a

Rhyno, good stuff. One of a relatively small batch of PU boards I did last year. Shaped in late spring

'07, glassed at Larry Pope’s LP Glass in Indian Harbour Beach. Pope has been in the industry since

about 1970 and has sanded more boards than anyone on the planet.

Still no word on Michael Price? I think he was down on the Banks, maybe one of the Carolina guys on here

will see this and report? I’m a little skeptical about one of his boards being ''appraised" at $1000, also.

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 :smiley:

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”

Jim N

ya i will appraised the board…not a grand

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

that might explain why it’s hard to come up with any info on him around the internet.

thanks for the info, guys!

i might respond to the guy with the ‘cool grand’ MP board and let him know he’s full of crap.

I’ve seen him trying to sell that board at least one other time, probably a year ago.