Saw this for sale on Sway’s. Since when do you have to pay a kickback to the shaper of a board that you bought from him? And what determines the sliding scale of percentage?
I have two Skip Fryes that I am thinking about selling, so I can have 'ol Skipper make me two new boards. The two boards I have are made from my last two Clark Foam blanks, which I took to Skip to make a 5’10" Fish and a 6’9" Longfish. They are the only two Fryes ever glassed by Jerry Ingham (Ghost shaper, Glasser, Sander, Fin Foiler, Polisher for various big names such as Dale Velzy, Phil Edwards, Dick Brewer, Pat Curran, Donald Takayama, Bobby Sakoda, etc.) and Pinlined by an Oceanside legend who came out of retirement just to pinline these Skip Fryes for Jerry and me. I will be giving Skip 10%-23.3% of what they go for, and then also paying him to shape me something new.
There is a Law in Calif that covers this for the resale of Fine Art. Lets say you bought a Painting by Fred the Artist when he was down and out for $100.00. Now painting by Fred sell for $250,000 His early work from time when you bought the painting sells for $500,0000. You take the work to sotheby's and they auction it off they will pay 5% of the final price to Fred.
By the way I'm an old friend of Bob Sakoda he shaped my favorite Longboard of all time a modified modern pig. He is one of those very under rated shapers
send me a privet message with his contact info It would like to say Hello to Bob
Bob Sakota is definitely under rated as a craftsman. Not the fastest, but close to the best, and humble beyond what he should be. Another guy who never seems to get the credit he deserves is Roger Baltierra- he can do it all.
Atomizer, Does that include the boards that go out the backdoor of the Chinese factory under some other name? I saw some boards with a some sort of cool surfing name like Tiki Bob that looked like a perfect copy of the McTavish f4. But I'm sure the good workers in China would not stoop to copying someone else's work
Rat I think Baltierra was sending some of his boards to Warren Browns glass shop. If shipping were not an issue I would be getting some of my old contacts to make me a new board.
Then again I have found some people over around Coco Beach area of Florida That are making some pretty nice Longboards. actually wish That Coil would branch out into some more then high Performance short Boards
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if some of the Sways Wannabes would retire now; I’d put a few pennies into a retirement fund. Let’s start with all those contributing to the “Hack” thread. I’ve got an ash tray full of retirement fund.