1940's Vintage Tom Blake Style Surfboards

1940's Vintage Tom Blake Style Surfboards

These Vintage Tom Blake style surfboards are near museum quality examples of local Hawai'i craftmanship by Paul Tanaka of Wahiawa, Oahu, Hawai'i. Built in the late 1940s and all original! Surf on the outside at Puena Point in Halawa in the summer and on the inside during the big heavy winter swells. These are made very much like an aircraft wing with an internal structure; these surfboards were covered with wood panels attached by metal screws and painted with a daffodil yellow paint or a clear varnish. See the pictures. This 1930's revolutionary design by Tom Blake was an enormous reduction in weight from earlier hot curl designs/solid wood surfboards. In a time prior to fins being installed on surfboards, these surfers used their foot to "foot drag" to turn all though certainly not like we understand turning today.

Proudly display handcrafted all original surfboard called a kookbox, by some. Each of these surfboards was made in Hawai'i long before Statehood.  

Shipping not included.