Greetings, Shredderz! Few surfboard labels have done a better job of maintaining their records than San Diego’s Gordon & Smith. Here’s a rad 70s ad showing some early fish designs and variants, along with some brief history on the design. I got this one from G&S’s excellent Facebook page, which you should check…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Today we’ve got a classic ad that I’ve seen floating around the internet in various places. It’s too bad it’s not a higher quality scan, but oh well, it’s still worth featuring. Here’s a late 60s Gordon & Smith ad featuring two unusual Skip Frye designs: the Baby Gun and the…
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Greetings, Shredderz! We’ve got more reader submissions for you today, and there’s some heat in here. Keep reading for more. Thanks @drewbmiller for sending in photos of this beautiful green Gordon & Smith Midget Farrelly Stringerless Model. I understand many of these were shaped by Skip Frye; I don’t know enough to say…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Today we’ve got a 70s Gordon & Smith ad that goes deep on surfboard design and performance. It’s interesting to see the different fin templates in the ad, and especially what I believe is referred to as the Aussie wide base.
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Greetings, Shredderz! Today we’ve got a sweet sled that helped me solve a surfboard puzzle that had been bothering me for some time. The 6’8″ Gordon & Smith Waterskate model you see below was recently posted on Craigslist, and seeing this board helped me piece together some of the history behind the Waterskate….
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Greetings, Shredderz! Apologies that things have been a bit more quiet lately on the blog front. Believe it or not, writing about surfboards isn’t exactly a lucrative line of work, so I’ve had to focus on things that actually pay the bills. But fear not, we’ve got a sweet selection of sleds that…
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Greetings, Shredderz! I posted a rad vintage 70s Bonzer earlier today on Instagram — scroll to the bottom to see — and that got me started down a bit of an internet rabbit hole. One of my favorite pieces of surf trivia is the fact that the Bonzer is known as the Bonza…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Welcome to the latest installment of the Social Media Roundup. Here are some of the cooler Instagram posts from the last month or so, starting with Tom Morey and the G&S Water Skate. Gordon & Smith consistently posts some great content on their Instagram, often delving deep into the label’s long…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Welcome to the latest installment of the Social Media Roundup. We’ve got an eclectic bunch of posts this go round, from some beautiful hand drawn artwork, to modern and vintage sticks, and one of my favorite photos of one of the most influential surfers to ever walk the earth. Keep reading…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Longtime readers may know that every now and then I’ll write a Weekend Grab Bag, which features a handful of boards that are on sale as of publishing time. While I like the fact the Grab Bag directs people to boards that can be bought right then and there, it does…
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