Craigg’s New/Old Skip Frye
Craigg picked up this early 1990’s Skip Frye up at a garage sale recently. As you can see this board spent many fine hours down at the beach and cooked a 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
Steve PP
October 22, 2010Absolutely lovely!
Longer
October 22, 2010That is the coolest…Congrats for Craig
Anonymous
October 22, 2010Jim is the man.Beautiful work !!!!!
Drew and Alicia
October 22, 2010Dude it looks even better now. Sweet board Craigg.
Erik
October 22, 2010Before I read your post, I thought this was the board from the Reader. Nice job on the restoration.
Anonymous
October 22, 2010There is only one Skipper…
Surfy Surfy!
October 23, 2010Sorry for spelling your name with only one “g” Craigg. Fixed.
Anonymous
October 23, 2010no problem JP, surfs like a muscle car, really fast in a straight line.
Anonymous
October 23, 2010what about the yellow bonzer around the corner in the last photo???? it is so alluring in repose!
Anonymous
October 23, 2010That board looks new. Good work. These double eagles become very addicting… careful.
Anonymous
October 24, 2010Do 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.
Joe Brophy
San Diego
cherlita
October 30, 2010‘Love the story about the re-vitalized Frye. . . beautiful!
Thanks for sharing.
Aloha, Cher and Steve