Greetings, Shredderz! Last week for Sagas of Shred we featured a 60s surf movie poster. At the opposite end of the surf movie poster scale we have this gem, which was made for “Wave Warriors II”, by Herbie Fletcher. The copy on the poster is nothing short of amazing: The buzzword is “hardcore.”…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Today we’ve got a young Shaun Tomson in an early Astrodeck ad. I believe the ad predates Astrodeck’s classic logo and designs. Here’s another early Astrodeck ad from 1982, featuring none other than Gerry Lopez. By comparison, here’s an Astrodeck ad from 1985, whose font and traction pads are what I…
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Greetings, Shredderz! I can’t imagine many of you are wondering about my pet peeves, but here goes. If you’re the type of person that chops up a perfectly good surf magazine to sell each of the ads one by one on eBay, I think that’s lame as hell. And this is probably the…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Today we’ve got an ad that originally appeared in the September 1989 issue of Surfer Magazine (Vol 30, No 9). We’ve featured Herbie Fletcher and his projects more than a few times here (and let’s not forget his wife Dibi, who I believe is instrumental in running Astrodeck.) Fletcher has always…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Look, I might be on vacation (no surfing for me over the next few weeks, I’m afraid), but Sagas of Shred continues, paid time off or not. I’m away from my trusty stash of vintage Surfer magazines, so I’ll mostly be plucking some choice scans from the internet. Pictured here is…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Today’s entry in Sagas of Shred — the series in which we feature a different vintage surf advertisement every Thursday night, California time — is an unexpected pairing in the form of a Gerry Lopez Astrodeck ad. Even though Astrodeck inventor Herbie Fletcher originally hails from California, he has a long…
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Is Shredzgiving the worst portmanteau in the history of the English language? Quite possibly. Am I going to roll with it anyway? You know it. This year I am thankful for the following: tasty waves, vintage sticks, family, friends and the bro-deal of a lifetime, in which a generous soul gave me a…
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A quick overview of some recent sales of Christian Fletcher Surfboards
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Greetings, Shredderz! As promised, we have another episode of Sagas of Shred, which features various bits of surf history from over the years. We have written about old Astrodeck ads before, but hey, you gotta keep drawing from the well until it’s dry! Today’s installment is an Astrodeck ad from the 1980s that…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Welcome to the latest installment of Sagas of Shred, where I’ll be sharing bits and pieces of surf culture from years past. Pictured above is an Astrodeck ad that appeared in the August 1985 issue of Surfer Magazine (Volume 26, No. 8). The ad features none other than the following surfers:…
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