Hello Everyone, I have a vintage 9' 6" Hansen surfboard. It has hawiian flowers on the top deck nose and says #1200 on the bottom side. A hansen logo on both sides. Does anyone have any information about the year, shaper, etc....
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That does not look like any vintage Hansen from the 1960's Maybe a little more information such as what kind of fin or fin system weight would also be a indicator of age. Older boards weighed a ton. Newer long boards have far less weight then there ancient ancestors.
From the little I could see looks more like a modern longboard.
Thankyou for your comments. I really dont know much about my board. I have uploaded some more pictures of it, hopefully I did it right. At one point I brought the board to a surf shop in Jacksonville beach, the guy told me it was a 69 hansen and was worth about 2000.00 He seemed to know right away what year and worth. This is a very heavy board, since I dont have a scale I guess its around 30 or 40 pounds. Shes a nice board too. I dont have a fin for it and dont know the fin set up. So I appreciate all comments and suggestions regarding this baby.
Thanks Robbieann
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You should have taken the $2000 and laughed all the way to the bank. My guess is its about 15yrs old. I could be off a little.
A newer Hansen would have come off a shaping machine and finnished off by one of many shapers working at Channin Factory on West Lake in Encinitas Ca. tony Channin had deals with a few Surfboard manufactures that wanted to cash in on the " new Longboard" surge That started in1990's Channin had one of the early commputerized shapping machines and the boards needed a lot of cleaning up and also allow for some customizing such as a touch more nose rocker deeper concaves and the like.
Robbieann, Enjoy the Board You have also learned a lesson here there are a lot of so Called Surfshops that are really just Beach Shops with a few Boards to make them look cool. The guy you talked to was clueless. Ask around and I'm sure you will find a Shop that will give you good advice and help you with your surfing.
Maybe Bill T will chime in. If it were 60's it would have some sort of signiture or initial indicating the shaper. The finbox is not 60's. This most likl;y is one of the 80's or 90's retros that came along with the longboard resurgence.
PS--------- You would never see that kind of denting on the deck of any 60's board. Your boards glass job appears to be typical "modern glass job" of 4 and 6 oz. E cloth. A 10 or 8 oz. Volan glass job of the 60's would have to do the "rock dance" at lowtide Rincon to have those kinds of deck dents.
I bet Steve Clark shaped it some time in mid nineties. Most likely glassed at Channins, though unless it was a custom, that fabric inlay would have definitely been pinlined before it left the shop.
McDing,
I think you hit the nail on the head! While the number is low, indicating early 60's, the board is clearly not of that era. The number is unrelated to earlier production numbers. Decal is also wrong for the 60's.
Howzit McDing, I agree with you and Bill on this especally the deck dents and I don't ever remember seeing a 60's board with fabric inlay either. Aloha,Kokua
Thanks guys for all the info, you have been very helpful for this novice surfer girl. Now that I know a little bit more about my board, I will enjoy it even more.
RobbieAnn :)
Here's one. This is a Deese from South Bay Surfshop.
I have a Hansen Hustler with the plastic bolt thru fin. I figure the Hansen was the last real long board made back then, I'm guessing it's a 1967 or so. it's 9'8' with a real bitch'n floral floral inlay, really pinched rails, and a huge hansen logo, blue tint wrapped to the rails. It was a family board, that was owned by my Uncle "ZERO" he was a biker down in Mission Beach back in the 60's
Vintage Hansen with crazy floral nose. I think this is the last vintage Hansen ever made? Right before the transition. Hansen Hustler, complete with big plastic yello fin, and a big ol Volan deck patch.
And yes I do surf it. But I keep it in a bag so it doesn't fade...wierd?
You really should have gotten that fool to buy it from you. Like someone else said, just because a person works in a (so-called) surfshop, it doesn’t mean they know a damn thing about surfboards. Classic case, right here. Even if that was a 60s board, it would not be worth 1000, nevermind 2k. Too brown and abused. the length and serial number near the stringer is also a dead giveaway. While some 60s logs had numbers, and sometimes the shaper’s initials or symbol, you never saw length written on one.
I’d also guess the board weighs less than 25 lbs. Hardly what you guesstimated. Original 60s logs averaged less than 30lbs, with 25 to 28 the norm.
Weber was doing inlays prior to the transition era on boards like the Feather and Professional. Noll did some late Cats with inlays. Others did, too.
" just because a person works in a (so-called) surfshop, it
doesn’t mean they know a damn thing about surfboards"
Or how to surf.
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Howzit McDing, I agree with you and Bill on this especally the deck dents and I don't ever remember seeing a 60's board with fabric inlay either. Aloha,Kokua
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Weber was doing inlays prior to the transition era on boards like the Feather and Professional. Noll did some late Cats with inlays. Others did, too.
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When I started shaping a Hansen, in 1965, cloth inlays, panels, and decks were being done on a regular basis.
A two page Weber ad from mid '67.
Nope, nobody did inlays in the 60s. No sir…
Weber's glass jobs were the BEST. For quality and art. In fact they still are the best; for quality and art. Done by the crew at Steve Albins' Aloha Glass in Westminster.
Sad, ain’t it? These are the same people who call anything with a split tail a “fish”, and talk about “fiberglass vs epoxy”
