all done and home now. Cant wait to ride

Looks sensational Steve, hope you get to christen it soon

Absolutely beautiful Steve,love itEnjoy mate!...

Thanks lads, from a mear thought bubble to this.... im stoked. Me and the lads head to Crescent next week so she will get a run there for sure.

Stunning

That's a work of art..very very nice..but have to ask why a hole in the fin and not a bridge on the deck..

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surfbroker said..
That's a work of art..very very nice..but have to ask why a hole in the fin and not a bridge on the deck..

Pieter was speaking to Midget Farrelly shorty before he passed away and apparently that was where the first leg ropes were attached before they became so popular that builders started puting bridges on decks. I could have gone the bridge but Pieter is pretty particular about making these pigs authentic. He did not really want to polish the bottom but i convinced hime with a case of crownies. Again, back in the late 50's they never even sanded the top coat, it was just left unsanded and same with the top coat join around the rail edge.

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surfbroker said..
That's a work of art..very very nice..but have to ask why a hole in the fin and not a bridge on the deck..

Pieter was speaking to Midget Farrelly shorty before he passed away and apparently that was where the first leg ropes were attached before they became so popular that builders started puting bridges on decks. I could have gone the bridge but Pieter is pretty particular about making these pigs authentic.

Yes thats what I was thinking ,suited to the period.holes in fins before bridges.

I thought that the hole in the fin was usually done by tight-arses that were too lousey to get the new fangled leash plug/chair tip inserted into the board..from experience as it's what I did.

Yep that's how it was back then,hole in the fin,there where no plugs and the bridge came after the hole in the fin!...
My first surfboard,Gordon and Smith had a hole in the fin!...

Cracker board!!! Well done Piet.