Greetings, Shredderz! We’ve got another installment of the Weekend Grab Bag, featuring some intriguing sleds that are all for sale as of publishing time. Keep reading for the full rundown. 6’10” Bing Mike Eaton Single Fin (Facebook) Always loved the Dave Hollander color work on these Bing models, and this one is no…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Here’s a beautiful ad for a strange board: the Transition Era Dewey Weber Pig. Part of me wonders if this isn’t just one half of a two page spread, because it’s almost suspiciously spare. Either way the graphic design is downright striking. There’s a surprising amount of variety in the graphics,…
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Greetings, Shredderz! As we wind down Thanksgiving weekend here in the States, here are some surfboards that are currently listed for sale around the interwebs. Keep scrolling for more. Phil Edwards Honolulu #93A (eBay) I’m a sucker for anything related to Phil Edwards, and the boards he shaped in Honolulu after his Hobie…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Today we’ve got a quick hit for you, featuring an example of the famous Dewey Weber Iggy Model. The Iggy Model is the namesake of Harold “Iggy” Ige. Ige was a team rider and the head shaper at Dewey Weber for years, and he helped design some of the brand’s most…
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Greetings, Shredderz! As always, here’s another installment of our Weekend Grab Bag series, which features cool boards I have seen listed for sale online recently. Keep reading for the rundown, including a rad OP surfboard with a sweet Bill Stewart airbrush, and more… Surf Line Hawaii Fish (Craigslist Hawaii) The board above is…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Today we have another installment of the not-quite famous Grab Bag, where we highlight a selection of boards currently for sale on the internet. Act quick because some of these deals go fast. Rick Mid Length Hull (Craigslist – Ventura) Remarkably, this bad boy is only $350. I’m shocked that it…
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That’s right, folks: it’s Thursday, and Sagas of Shred keeps rolling along. Today we have another ad from an issue of Surfer Magazine from the 1960s, featuring classic surfwear brand Hang Ten. To be honest, it was only recently that I realized that Hang Ten’s history went back so far. Sadly, Hang Ten…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Here are some interesting vintage surf posts I’ve stumbled across in my recent internet travels. View this post on Instagram #toughchoice A post shared by Island Trader Surfshop Stuart (@islandtradersurfshop) on Apr 22, 2017 at 10:47am PDT Island Trader Surf Shop is a great shop in Stuart, Florida that happens to sell…
Continue readingGreetings, Shredderz! As your weekend comes to a close (it’s almost midnight here in California), here’s a selection of a few cool boards I saw for sale over the past few days. Rich Pavel / Steve Lish 5’8″ Fish on Craigslist This thing has already been sold, so there’s no link. It went…
Continue readingSome would say that the late 1960s and the early 1970s were the awkward teenage years of surfboard design. During this time, known as the Transition Era, surfboard shapers were figuring out how to gracefully pivot from longboards made for noseriding, into the shorter, more high performance shapes that we take for granted…
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