I found a 60s lond board in pretty good shape its logo on the deck says TIKI does anyone know what this board is worth? the all wood square fin has delamination and other than that it rates 9 out of 10. thanks zeckles
The TIKI boards I know of were made in England. Many of them made their way to France. One of my good friends still owns a perfect 70s specimen: singlefin, down rails, diamond-tail, tinted resin… Trying to find photos…
If its the british brand, which i think started in the 60's its north devon based and its still going now. have a look at http://www.tikisurf.co.uk/tiki-history.asp
Tiki boards fairly often come up on ebay and normally go for around 150GBP
From memory (of what i've seen on ebay, not old enough to really know!) the logo changes quite a bit, I saw a nice late sixties singlefin which had a brightly coulored pelican on the logo.
No photos = no clue.
But, if it’s a US made Tiki , then it is a mid 60s popout that sold in department stores for about $70 when brand new. Made by Pacific Plastics in Ventura, CA. The company made a few generic popouts and except for length and color they were basically the same board with different labels like Ten Toes, Tiki, etc. In mint condition, a really ‘completist’ collector might give you 800 bucks. But, it would have to be show room perfect
Does the logo look like this?
Found them at last…:
We sold Tikis at Keller’s in Lavallette. Early sixties. We would get some from Ron Jon when we ran out of our pop out brand, the line from Titan Plastics. (South Bay, Windansea and El Dorado). Ron was the distributor for the VIP line and we distributed the Titan line. There was a distributor in New York, Post Ski Shop, for the Keokis and that line of pop outs.
We would close the shop at 10 pm and get into my '41 Dodge pickup truck to make the trek down to 32 Lyle ave in Manahawkin. Ron’s house. He had boards everywhere. On the front lawn, in the attic, under the porch. We’d have a shopping list: "One 9’6 in red and one in blue, a blue or aqua 9’8 etc)
I have an old flyer somewhere. The boards were made by Ventura International Plastics. They had an office and showroom on Ventura Blvd. in Sherman Oaks. Their line included: Sharks, Tiki’s and Ten Toes. The Sharks had no stringer, the Tiki’s had a stringer routed in the top and usually a solid pigmented bottom. The Ten Toes had a routed stringer in the top and the bottom to give the illusion that it went all the way through. They were all made from “mat” blanks popped out of a mold like a giant waffle. The Titan line was similar.
When we all had homeade boards, 1962, there were a couple of boards around that were actually made in a factory. One was a green Jacobs and the other was a Tiki. The guy who owned the Jacobs didn’t surf much and never came to the beach. The guy who owned the Tiki was named Fran Corragio. When he showed up at Reese Ave one day with that Tiki we thought it was just about the coolest thing we’d ever seen.
When Charlie Keller and Jack Homer tried to build a board using a plaster of paris mold they used the Jacobs for the prototype. Johnny, the owner, would lend the board out quite a bit. They borrowed it one day, covered it with vasaline and made the mold, cleaned it off and gave it back to Johnny who was none the wiser.