Craigg picked up this early 1990s Skip Frye up at a garage sale recently. As you can see this board spent many, many fine hours down at the beach due to the severe sun bleached bottom. Craig brought this board into the shop to get some ding repair done. Jimmy Robertson of Lokbox fin system happens to have a ding repair shop so we sent it to him to get fixed up. Jimmy ended doing a nice semi-restoration by re-sanding, re-glossing and re-polishing it. Now it's all sealed up and ready slide another 20 years.*On a related note, there is a slightly surreal cover story about getting a Skip Frye surfboard in this week's San Diego Reader: I Finally Got Skip Frye to Make Me a Surfboard
Absolutely lovely!
ReplyDeleteThat is the coolest...Congrats for Craig
ReplyDeleteJim is the man.Beautiful work !!!!!
ReplyDeleteDude it looks even better now. Sweet board Craigg.
ReplyDeleteBefore I read your post, I thought this was the board from the Reader. Nice job on the restoration.
ReplyDeleteThere is only one Skipper...
ReplyDeleteSorry for spelling your name with only one "g" Craigg. Fixed.
ReplyDeleteno problem JP, surfs like a muscle car, really fast in a straight line.
ReplyDeletewhat about the yellow bonzer around the corner in the last photo???? it is so alluring in repose!
ReplyDeleteThat board looks new. Good work. These double eagles become very addicting... careful.
ReplyDeleteDo you know if this was a once only restore? I have a 11'2" Eagle that is ready for the graveyard. I have had it for about 13 yrs and it was ridden for who knows how many yrs before that. I would love to have my Eagle flying again at the cliffs.
ReplyDeleteJoe Brophy
San Diego
'Love the story about the re-vitalized Frye. . . beautiful!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing.
Aloha, Cher and Steve