Vintage Logan Help

[revzack]

So I picked up a NOS, Logan earthski. Being NOS it has not been gripped before, could someone help me with a picture of how they were originally gripped? I searched but found no pics, maybe i suck at searching who knows.

Thank You in advance.

[Mister Surly]

So I picked up a NOS, Logan earthski. Being NOS it has not been gripped before, could someone help me with a picture of how they were originally gripped? I searched but found no pics, maybe i suck at searching who knows.

Thank You in advance.

zak, try the bulldog forums collector's links. here's a logan earth ski thread:

http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/p...logan&trail=15

[crawdad62]

I'm pretty sure they were completely gripped except where the logo is. Does yours have the logo on top? That part wasn't gripped and it was just a rectangle cut to show the logo.

I know that's how the laminates were when they came out. Not so sure on the solid wood LES's. But most didn't come gripped like yours and people did whatever they wanted on top.

[revzack]

Thank you for help. I just put grip front and back leaving the logan part, may put it down the sides too.
Cool site Carl
Thank you again.

[Pinhead]

It might be better to just leave it NOS and not gripped.
I remember grip tape being different back in
the 70s, 1-2" wide and more like rubber.

http://www.artofskateboarding.com/aos_main.asp

[revzack]

It might be better to just leave it NOS and not gripped.
I remember grip tape being different back in
the 70s, 1-2" wide and more like rubber.

http://www.artofskateboarding.com/aos_main.asp

Well, I bought it to ride, at the Farm. I have decided function over form. And I gripped and mounted trucks already. Looking back I probably should have found a used board, but what the hell, we only go around once right?

[Parallel Man]

I don't know how anyone else remembers it, but this is the way all the Bruce Logan solid oak Earth Skis looked like on the East Coast that we saw:



Also, I don't know if Makaha, Val Surf or maybe Sunset who did it, but they used all these small die-cut pieces of sandpaper grip tape to make designs on the top of the boards.

The only ones I know who used the rubber deck tape was Fibreflex. Again, though, all I know is what we saw over here. No telling what was going on in California we never heard about.

P.S. And please, no jokes about my drawing. It's just something I roughed out real quick to illustrate the concept.

[crawdad62]

Yeah I had some of that. It was 3M if I'm not mistaken. Mine was red (sort of brick colored) and they had it in all kinds of squares and strips.

Here's a couple of pics on Bulldogs site (scroll down to Rhino's post).

http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/p...19&trail=30#23

[Mister Surly]

that drawing sucks

[crawdad62]

Ha I just checked and I still have that board.

[Parallel Man]

that drawing sucks

Rare is the day indeed when someone MUCH slower than me chooses to talk trash in my general vicinity.

[Parallel Man]

Oh, now I remember why. Whoever did these grip tape designs didn't have the wherewithall to tape the board and DIE CUT a square hole so the logo wasn't covered up. so they piece mealed grip tape all over the board so it went around the image.

Only FibreFlex had those neat dies available to cut a window the same shape as their logo.

I remember a kid was asking one time, "how hard is it to make sure the tape goes down and doesn't cover up some of the logo?"

Me at my most brilliant said in a confident 14-year old voice, "they put the sticker on AFTER putting on the grip tape."

I was such a clever child.

[Mister Surly]

Rare is the day indeed when someone MUCH slower than me chooses to talk trash in my general vicinity.

see you at the farm?

[donald20]

hey wes
your inital drawing of the griptape job very much reflects the way boards had been gripped back in the day,i've seen quite a few of those looking very similar to what you did as a graphic.
the rubber gripatpe was a g&s exclusive to say so at that time.

logan came with cut out griptape when they introduced the duralite series.
before that they has a ll boards blank and ungripped.
coutout tape was also done by howell,z-flex and a few others back then.

[Parallel Man]

Carl,

No Farm for me. It's that kind of summer.

[Eddy Martinez]

Z-Boy here is a pic of my Bruce Logan and my Cat Miko he is a Manx. I love that pussy.
Your Amigo Eddy Texas Outlaws/Pavel Flow

[Parallel Man]

I gotta tell ya', I'm IMPRESSED with myself. Working on a 30-year old memory, I scribble something out and it's THIS CLOSE:



I missed a little bit in the tail (didn't make it sharp enough) and I got the logo upside down. Still, that's pretty freakin' good!

[Mister Surly]

Carl,

No Farm for me. It's that kind of summer.

that sucks, cause i'm faster now and was hoping to race ya!

[Tim Robinson]

That 3m rubber was also used on santa cruz.

[donald20]

that's my board!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i still get the kicks when i see pics of that board with those gullwings and road riders