How good is this!
dropped into an antique joint today and picked up this original terry fitzgerald single fin Shane. got em down to $200…
its in pretty good nic too…
Cant wait to surf it…
i love old boards…
Shifty,
That is a Goody!
I often snoop around the curio shops looking for a gem…it seems however that the proprietors have latched onto the idea that every browning log is priceless.
They’re still out there, under elderly people’s holiday houses I’m sure!
Josh
yeh,
some of the other boards were way over priced.
you’d appreciate this immaculate rod brook’s shape being a torquay boy.
this is in top condition…
crazy shape though…
Shifty,
That Brooko IS priceless!
It looks like we’ve been looking in the same shops…Jeez, love the soda syphon!!!
Josh
that shane looks about 1970
didnt relisze fitz ever shaped for shane
huie
am i mistaken?
i thought fitz was shane?
dont tell either one that l o l
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dont tell either one that l o l[/I went to the surfworld museum this arvo and saw a shane by terry Fitzgerald. I just asumed it was his lable. Am I wrong?]
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it seems however that the proprietors have latched onto the idea that every browning log is priceless.
ROFL!!
It’s a Browning, its a log… it’s .uhmm… priceless??
Shifty,
Shane is Shane Stedman…One of Sydneys great entrepreneur shapers of the late 60’s/early seventies. He was right there to take the “shortboard revolution” to the marketplace. He is perhaps best known for initiating the “Pop-Out” era. His stuff covered both the high-end market and the low-end, with either a molded foamie for the kids, ugg boots or a custom by the likes of TF…
Numerous hot young shapers did stints under the Shane label, including Michael Petersen, TF, Nat young and Midget if I’m not mistaken.
Shane is still around, still produces boards under the “Spyder” label. He was one of the earliest to work with EPS/Epoxy and maintains a fertile design development act…
Forgive me for sounding like a walking history book…
Josh
at the start i thought it was a shane stedman. then i saw that shane today in the museum shaped by terry fitz and it threw me.
thanks for clearing that up for me.
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that shane looks about 1970didnt relisze fitz ever shaped for shane
huie</blockquote></div>check this out…
Shane Surfboards
Terry Fitzgerald (Model).
circa 1972.
terry may have just been a model. i could have sworn that board i saw in the museum today was shaped by terry.
guess ill have to go back…
Did’nt Simon Anderson have his start there too?
Foamdust,
Yep, Simon and a list of guys as long as your arm…between Shane, Bennett and a handful of other large factories at the tail-end of the 60’s, there’s Australia’s Who-who of shaping, along with the also-rans.
The history is interesting. The market after the “Shortboard Revolution”… “Side-slippers”, “Trackers” and “Pocket- Rockets”, each requiring about half the materials to make. Do the maths and wonder…
Josh
A bit of historical accuracy,fwiw…
You can delete Nat and (definitely) Midget from that list.
I have had the pleasure on several occaisions over the years to work for Shane, not to mention many a Friday 'arvo beer or two on the front porch of the old ‘cottage’ on Sydenham rd.
Shane is a true-blue classic Aussie, no two ways about that !
Simon, T.F, MP, Dappa Oliver, and Frank Latta all come to mind.
But it’s perhaps the following two that that are most signifigent historically…
Ted Spenser, for his ‘White Kite’ model and
Jim Pollard who came down from QLD and established the first 6-channel bottom shapes ‘Fluid Foils’
Thanks Sammy,
I’m glad to be corrected, though not too harshly…
Josh