Tell Me About My Board

General Discussion
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Hey Guys. I’m new to the forum. I’ve been surfing for about 10 years now, but never really found a reason to be on the forum until now. I recently received a board to add to my quiver in trade for another board that I had lying around. Normally when I pick up a used board, I like to learn everything I can about it before taking the first ride. Unfortunately, I have found little to no info on this board. Here’s what I know:

  1. It’s 7’4" X 20 1/2" X 3"

  2. It’s a single fin

  3. It came with no form of leash attachment(I added my own through the finbox like I do w/ my longboards)

  4. It has a painted stringer

  5. The graphics are laminated on under the topcoat

  6. It is labled Eastside

 

Tell me what you know. Age, History, etc. Thanks guys.

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Early 80's POS.  Looks like a wobbly outline, probably made by some backyard guy....on the Eastside.

Shape of the nose looks funky.

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hahaha

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The nose looks funny because it’s been repaired. I’m not sure what you mean by wobbly outline. As for POS, only time will tell.   :wink:

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Yup. Looks like a backyard job, and pretty funky at that.

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the outline of the board. bougie-ghetto hand-drawn. But if it surfs good, who cares! Get a good ‘Eastside’ hand sign going after you shred a session with this bad boy

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East of my place for sure.......

Ride it!     add some side bites????    have fun

Stingray

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On second thought…doesn’t that look like a WAVESET box? Might be a re-shape of an older board?

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Yes.    Frankly that thing just screams 1969, especially the tail shape,  right on down to the ‘‘Captain America’’ color scheme.  (popular, in the day)

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It does look like do a toke and build a bitchen Board dude. 

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Thanks for all the input guys. Here is what I’ve taken from it.

 

  1. It shouldn’t surf well, but it does

  2. There’s probably some resin imbedded in there somewhere(and not the epoxy or poly kind)

  3. I need to perfect me eastside hand sign

  4. I am Captain America

 

In all seriousness though, I appreciate everyone’s input. I’ve been thinking about throwing some side bites on and dropping the center fin back(its up front right now). Just gotta find the time to do it.

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So, is that in fact a WAVESET box and fin? If so, the fin is worth more than the board.

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Yes, I believe it is a Waveset fin and box. The fin is covering part of the brand logo, but I think it says “variset waveset” or “variable waveset”. When you say its worth more than the board, how much are we talking? It does have a 1/8" hold drilled through the base of the box, for the leash cord to go through. The hole is at the back of the box and goes through the center of the box(see pics).

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#2…? 

is cool you’re putitng this thing to use. All about the stoke. 

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Took the fin off when I got home from work. “Variable Wave Set” and “Patent Pending”.

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EXTREMELY rare fin! I’d say you could easily get $200 for it. The only thing missing seems to be the channel caps. Looks like all parts are otherwise intact.

I could have told you what it was just by seeing that first closeup shot of the fin. Short lived design, and they didn’t make a lot of them. Had one on a 6’9" Sopwith Camel by Morey Pope, back in the day.

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$200? Sweet. I actually traded a shortboard for this board. The shortboard had only cost me $100 to begin with. Only problem is, I don’t want to destroy the board to sell the fin. I’ll just have to ride it until I have enough to by a new mid length(need to have something between my 5’10" fish and my 9’6" longboard). What year would you say the fin and fin box is from? there is no serial # or year that I can see on it.

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Can you say 1969?

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Yup. Got mine right after I was discharged from the Army in July of '69.

I think they made them for only about a year. 18 months, maybe?

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Tail and general plan shape looks like my first short board 6’8" -ish Keholtz and Angel. I got it used in '68 or '69 (I wasn’t weaned yet, so I didn’t commit details to memory).