http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQK0Ary5h0E
I shot this footage when I was working for G & S as a sales rep. I would set up a 16mm projector in our dealer’s showrooms and show the footage to the gremmies.
In this clip, Skip is testing three different prototypes on this day. All roundtail 7’6’s, they were the forerunner of what would become the Frye Egg.
The bottom contours varied: A flat bottom. a rolled bottom and one with a rolled nose blending into a flat tail section. The boards didn’t have much rocker being made from blanks that looked like this: