Haven't really dove into this board yet... it maybe a wood fin that has been painted. I do agree to change this board would be doing Joe Quigg a disservice.
Just my humble opinion: That board is more valuable to me in its current state than it ever could be if restored. In my eyes its not even worth half as much if you peel it and make it look like a new board. But that's just me. Fluke glass off restorations.
Paraphrasing the words of Indiana Jones;This board belongs in a museum.
Here's the thing; by the time you finish doing a skin-off 'restoration', with new foam sheeting and whatever else, even in the hands of somebody like Jim Phillips, it's not gonna be the original board. I kinda doubt it would be possible to get enough information from what's left to bring it back to what it was. Guesswork at best.
The foam is shot, the glass has delammed to where it would only be a good guess to the original shape. It's probably warped in every dimension. There's no 'there' there.
What would I do? If I wanted to spend a lot of money, instead of having this board redone like the USS Constellation and it's so called restoration (look it up), I'd ask Jim or somebody with his skills to take that board and try to make a copy. of it completely from scratch.
If you really want to surf it. It's a 1960 board. The world has moved on.
I agree with Doc, make a copy. Surf that one and hang them both up together. See if the Surfing Heritage Museum in San Clemente is interested.
They might take it; but it won't be displayed, especially in that condition. Just stuffed upstairs and never seen again. They did a Quigg exhibition about 6 years ago. Highly unlikely they'll do another.
Haven't really dove into this board yet... it maybe a wood fin that has been painted. I do agree to change this board would be doing Joe Quigg a disservice.
Thanks for you comments
Just my humble opinion: That board is more valuable to me in its current state than it ever could be if restored. In my eyes its not even worth half as much if you peel it and make it look like a new board. But that's just me. Fluke glass off restorations.
Paraphrasing the words of Indiana Jones;This board belongs in a museum.
Here's the thing; by the time you finish doing a skin-off 'restoration', with new foam sheeting and whatever else, even in the hands of somebody like Jim Phillips, it's not gonna be the original board. I kinda doubt it would be possible to get enough information from what's left to bring it back to what it was. Guesswork at best.
The foam is shot, the glass has delammed to where it would only be a good guess to the original shape. It's probably warped in every dimension. There's no 'there' there.
What would I do? If I wanted to spend a lot of money, instead of having this board redone like the USS Constellation and it's so called restoration (look it up), I'd ask Jim or somebody with his skills to take that board and try to make a copy. of it completely from scratch.
If you really want to surf it. It's a 1960 board. The world has moved on.
hope that's of use
doc...
I agree with Doc, make a copy. Surf that one and hang them both up together. See if the Surfing Heritage Museum in San Clemente is interested.
They might take it; but it won't be displayed, especially in that condition. Just stuffed upstairs and never seen again. They did a Quigg exhibition about 6 years ago. Highly unlikely they'll do another.
Trust me on this. I worked there for 13 years.
No; It's not an ironing board.
For sake of discussion; Did Jim Phillips have an opinion on who may have supplied the foam blank?
That which can be assorted without evidence was read in an illegal magazine.
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