What is your opinion when this board was made. Velzy: claimed to be 1970.
http://ventura.craigslist.org/spo/1854550774.html
My guess it was shaped in the 90s.
You’re probably right. The leash plug and fin box say definitely not 1970. Neither of those existed then.
This part of the ad just caught my eye.
“Location: Home of Rich Harbour”.
I’m skeptical on that one. Rich would know a 1970 board from a newer one.
One they did have fin Boxes in the 1970's Fins Unlimited the leash pug could have been installed at any time. however by 1970 nobody was making longboards. The transition was over and it was the era of the short board. Longboards.
Just from looking at the Photos I would also guess a board made in the late 1980's or 1990's
wasn't dale over in arizona cowboying in '70? i'm guessing that was made early on in the longboard "resurgence" late 80's probably.
…you need to check the board live to see if is from 1970
because of the grain of the foam
Older lboard foam was somewhat different in texture.
That foam seems Clark s per the stringers.
Normally older lboards was made with volane fglass, and this one looks like have silane fglass finish.
The leash cup is the “modern” ones.
In closer inspection seems that the board had a glass on fin previously attached then repaired and finally some one decided to put a box.
Nobody said they didn’t. But, THAT type of box did NOT exist.
Not true. There were still a few hold outs and you could get an LB shaped by just about anyone who’d done them before.
i don’t see that, at all. The box looks original to the board, and there’s water stains around the front which would indicate long term leaking from cracks in the glass near the corners of the box.
Sorry Sammy you are wrong. That type of box did exist in 1970. It looks like a Fins Unlimited Box and Bahne first produced them in 1968 By 1970 just about every board with a fin box was using Fins Unlimited system.
The stringers and the glass stil look post 70.
Did the Fins Unlimited Box come in white in1970?
That board looks like it has freelaps, which weren't really common 'till the mid 70's. As far as I know, FU wasn't making white 10.5" boxes in 1970. At least I don't recall seeing any until the early 80's. If the screw tab is removable, then it's definintely not 1970. The board looks like one of the ones that was glassed at Channins in the mid 90's.
…SammyA, if you look pass the box to the tail you can notice kind of delam and decolored on the stringer and that always happend with glass ons and not with boxes
so, might be that after the glass on the owner put a box and then the box was damaged (look in the sides of the box) and fitted another time (plus too much white pigment, normally with the years you can see a less white pigment-if the board was really used or Sun exposed as this one)
“The board looks like one of the ones that was glassed at Channins in the mid 90’s.”
That’s my call…
The tinted stringer glue seems soo 90s.
Atomized, Sammy, and Ace, nailed it. It's a 90's board. Colored glue ups were common in the 60's. Still popular today.
Reverb, that board never had a glass on, it was done in the mid to late 90’s at Channin, I started shaping them in '97 for Dale and non of the glass ons they did came off, that’s a leaky box turning the foam brown, you can see the spider cracks at the front of it.
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Did the Fins Unlimited Box come in white in1970?
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No.
The hell I am!!
It certainly did NOT.
Fins Unlimited was created around 1968. The design of their boxes and fins went through at least three versions before they settled on the one in that board. It is the same type in use to this day.
Here are two FU ads. The first is from the Summer of '68 and it clearly shows a completely different box and fin from the modern version. The second ad is from 1970, and features the Vari - Set system, which was the second type they created, and the first adjustable FU setup.
That’s exactly how I see it, too. Which I already stated.
