I just got a daily joy model. Is is approx. 7’4" diamond tail stinger, single fin glassed on. I know it was a long time ago but could you give an approx time period you were doing these? It needed a lot of work to it, but it was worth it. Super smooth ride, very fun and a great change of pace.
I just got a daily joy model. Is is approx. 7’4" diamond tail > stinger, single fin glassed on. I know it was a long time ago but could > you give an approx time period you were doing these? It needed a lot of > work to it, but it was worth it. Super smooth ride, very fun and a great > change of pace. Holy Moly Mike, I was using the Daily Joy label from 1973 until 1978. I had a partner that burned Clark Foam for a chunk of dough and felt that a change of name might be better. I have been refitting the logo on my computer and am going to add it back in to my line of boards. They were all done in cut laps, tints, glassed on laminated wood fins. The one I have is a 7’4" diamond tail balsa semi-gun. It had a wood fin, but I took it off and made it into a thruster. I did it with a cherry red tint inlay deck with 2-1/16" pinlines, a 1/16" apart. one black, one white. The red tint on balsa makes it look like mahogany. A time when every board was a work of art! http://www.JimtheGenius@aol.com
My first board was a daily joy picked up at a garage sale in 92’. 6’2" double bump pin, with star system twin fins, it was old when I got it. Great board, and by chance introduced me to a man who has made some of the best boards I have ridden since. The real catch with this first one was the stringer, it swept an arc, kind of like the paint jobs Tommy Carol had on his boards in the late 80’s. It was a great board, and laid down a foundation of interest in boards other than thrusters, at a time and place when that was all that was available. Jim, I rode the board untill I lost a fin with the box, and it sat in my dad’s garage for ever. He recently had a garage sale and gave it to a young kid who was begging his dad for it. The torch is passed, another father and son will learn ding rapair. I wonder how many reincarnations, over how mainy years that board will have