Hey Guys!
About a month ago I posted some questions regarding a Nuuhiwa restoration. I’m really proud of the finished product and thought I would share some photos. Also included is another restoration I was working on at the time of a transitional Oceanside board… Anyone have information on this shaper?
There are more photos and the full story at my website www.lotusearth.com
wow- nice work. what is the weight of the finished nuuhiwa? i am really impressed. congrats on the resurrection
Unbelieveable! One of the most impressive restos I've seen. You took a thrashed piece of crap and turned it into a thing of beauty. Great job!
Very nice resto.
There’s a good chance that the Oceanside was built at the G&S factory in San Diego.
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There's a good chance that the Oceanside was built at the G&S factory in San Diego.
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Alright Bill, that piques my interest. I guess that was before Oceanside had their own factory? I've been told that Oceanside manufactured in that big facility on Aurora Rd right off US 1, is that correct?
When I was a kid up in Daytona, those O'side ''Hookers'' sure looked good. And about '71 I bought a skate from the Cocoa Beach shop that had urethane wheels, at least a year or two before they became common. That skateboard changed my life.
tommyrocket, great work on the resto!
All the Oceanside ads I recall seeing had a business address in Cocoa Beach. Odd that they’d build them in SD and ship cross-country.
tommyrocket:
That has to be one of the best restorations I’ve seen in a while. The Bing, that is…
No it wasn’t before they had their own factory. It was after.
Bill Feinberg was building Oceansides at the factory on Auroa Rd. in the late sixties early seventies. That was after his Cocoa/Rockledge factory had burnt down. (twice).
In 1970 I was travelling the coast(s) (also to Hawaii and Puerto Rico) for G&S. I was given the job of finding a new dealer in Brevard County. Our dealer the Sea Park shop in Satellite Beach was closing. Ron Jon’s was not in consideration since they sold the Surfboards Australia line which were made in our factory. I had talked to Catri (Shagg’s) and he was definately interested. I went on up to see Bill and Mar to sell them some accessories for their store. I never thought they would carry the G&S line since they had their own manufacturing. And even if they did it was doubtful they would push the product. They convinced me that they could do the best job in the area and backed it up with a sizeable order.
Larry went along with it and they wound up being our biggest dealer for several years. From that we got teamriders such as: Jeff Crawford, Mark Rhodes, Greg Loehr, David Balzcerack and I think Benjie McRoberts rode one for awhile. (Greg, who am I forgetting?)
Sometime in the early seventies as the retail operation was growing, Bill and Mar were getting disenchanted with manufacturing and wholesaling to dealers. They decided to close the manufacturing and I worked a deal where we would build their boards at G&S for them to retail in their store.
By the way I was told by all the other factory reps and team riders in Cocoa Beach that we were making a big mistake (giving them the G&S dealership). Remember, Cocoa Beach/Brevard County was the center of the East Coast scene at that time. Most of the reps and team riders lived in the apartments on the beach by Tippy’s Tacos. I even slept in my van in the parking lot there when I was in town.
The board in the photos above was made in '72 or '73 by my best guess. If so, the board would have been made at G&S.
I guess that was one of the best kept secrets in the surfing industry. I hadn’t really thought of it in years.
You’re right about the Oceanside ads. And that Cocoa Beach address was where you had to go if you wanted to buy one.
Thanks for the edification. How long did G&S build for Feinberg? And who would have shaped tommyrocket's board?
You're bringing back more memories with the Tippy's Taco House reference. When I was in college at FIT my friends and I would splurge once every couple weeks and go up there. There was a Tippy's in Melbourne too, but the one in Cocoa Beach had colder beer.
Long after I was gone from G&S ('74 ior 5)
No telling who shaped it. Could have been John Holly (on right below)
or maybe Paul Bordieri
Or maybe Hoy Runnels?
(From the Rusty website)
Or…or…or…
Those pics from last weekend are coming in handy already...
The most amazing thing about all this is that we found something that SammyA didn't recollect and/or have a 40 yr old ad photo of :)
I was part of the deal and I didn’t even recollect it!
Oh well that’s what getting old does for you.
Some other parallel manufacturing:
Oceanside built the Ron Jon boards in the mid late sixties
Bing built the Sunshines for Claude Codgen
Weber built the Summertimes (rider Bruce Valluzi)
Hobie built the Oles for awhile in the early sixties
Grant Reynolds (Bay Cities Glassing) glassed the boards for Jacobs, Chuck Dent, Dewey Weber, who else? (not all at the same time but over a period in the late sixties early seventies)
Thomas,
I'd love to see how you did it. Did you take of pics of your work? If so, it should be posted in the Resources section.
Nice work Thomas. I too would be proud of the job. Have you contacted Bing. He has a page on his website for restorations. Yours would be worthy of being included. platty.
Wow thanks to everyone for all of the amazing history and kind words on this restoration. Bing was a part of the resto from the beginning as well as Tom Moss at www.classicbingsurfboards.com which is a great source as Platty mentioned.
There were a few questions, so let me know if I miss any…
The completed weight is 34 lbs. which is actually under the 38 lb. original weight. Bing sent me an original laminate that he and David used in '98 for a encore of this special model and a great book detailing the history of the Bing design and legacy.
The process of the restoration followed true to the restoration of Bing #4211 on www.classicbingsurfboards.com by Dr. Ding and Tom Moss. I wanted the board to be ridable again even though it will most likely be a wall hanger.
I used a 4 1/2" Dewalt grinder with a nice metal cutting wheel to cut the remaining glass along the cut lap on the bottom side. From this point the glass pulled away smoothly. I left the original deck intact as it had no delamination issues. This was also a great tool for cleanly removing the fin on both the Bing and the Oceanside (destroyed fin-box).
The bottom of the board had some major canyons from what appeared to be solvent damage from long ago and the stringer was completely rotted away from the point I placed Bing’s logo forward.
Bing asked Margaret at the factory about a new stringer section for me, but the new sections have a slighly different dimension from the original and the entire board would have needed to be disassembled to look uniform.
I opted to pour the stringer section with thin q-cell mixture and fill all of the remaining pits and canyons with a thicker version of this same mixture using a large putty knife.
With all of the craters roughly filled I need a stable surface to begin smoothing out the dips and to re-create the signature Nuuhiwa concave on this model. I did a lamination with 6 oz. glass and cut-lapped on the original deck line. I then used the same large putty knife procedure to re-shape and fill the voids on the more stable laminated surface.
Next I hot coated both sides and sanded everything smooth. I then fine tuned any voids with then q-cell and re-sanded. Next I coated the bottom around to the deck’s original cut lap in a color I call “Green Bamboo” which seemed to go nicely with the untouched original patina of the deck. Now I must say I have never used paint on my boards, strictly pigmented resin, but in this case I saw no alternative. I was worried about the extra weight of more resin knowing I had several more layers of glass to the process.
The paint turned out great and I hand faux painted the stringer from about halfway up the board to the nose. This turned out so nice that with the laminate in place hiding the splice, it’s pretty much undetectable even at close examination.
I then clear laminated the bottom and the deck using cut-laps and 4 oz. cloth placing Bing’s laminate on the bottom of the board. Next, I tuned up the fin and laminated it in place. From there it was the standard hot coat, resin pin lines on the deck, gloss and polish.
All this in just under a hundred hours labor ha ha. Sure looks great and the experience has influenced my shaping style. Bing had it right, even all those years ago. I much prefer the straight lines of his noserider to the fat noses and extreme rocker of today’s longboards. I’m even ordering some reverse rocker blanks and plan to take a template of this board today.
If anyone is replicating traditional noseriders like these, let me know as I would really appreciate some knowledge. Thanks again guys.
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I was part of the deal and I didn't even recollect it!
Oh well that's what getting old does for you.
Some other parallel manufacturing:
Oceanside built the Ron Jon boards in the mid late sixties
Bing built the Sunshines for Claude Codgen
Weber built the Summertimes (rider Bruce Valluzi)
Hobie built the Oles for awhile in the early sixties
Grant Reynolds (Bay Cities Glassing) glassed the boards for Jacobs, Chuck Dent, Dewey Weber, who else? (not all at the same time but over a period in the late sixties early seventies)
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Jack Pollard, was glassing boards for most in the early 60's... His old shop, on Lincoln Blvd, in Venice later became Dewey's "new " shop with Donny Mulhurn running the front and Donald & Iggy shaping in the back, for Dewey. Grant Reynolds was working for Pollard then, and later, Pollard moved his shop to Valley Blvd in Hermosa and Grant, later took over.
Aloha,
PPK
