It was absolutely trashed. The nose and tail were broken off, and there were several gnarly dings in it. So I made the decision to strip all the glass off.
I let the board dry out until 1993 and did some research the find out what a Bing Glass Slipper was supposed to look like. I used polyurethane spray foam from a can to spray on a new nose and a new tail, then I reshaped them. This process went on for a while until I tracked down a picture of an actual Bing Glass Slipper.
The board had a green finbox with arrow-head-like grooves for the fin to fit in. I think it could have even been an old Waves Set Fin box... not sure.
I couldn't find another fin or fin box, so I filled in the void with spray foam and shaped it in.
I was shaping other boards at the time, so this project kind of sat around until 2000 when I finished shaping it. I had Ryan Sergeant hand paint it with acrylic.
When I moved to California in 2001, my friend, Drew Marquis and I designed a new fin for it to be ridden low or as a knee board and glassed it on after laminating the whole board.
I Rode it once in Michigan when it was still trashed and rode it several times in California and Mexico. It's maiden voyage after the new glass job was on a trip to Baja. Ryan Gerard took it with him and said it was a magic board.
I took it down to Tourmaline Beach Park and PB Point and broke it in on some good shoulder to head high set waves.
I ended up trading this, a 9' late 60's popout, and an old, Hanky 10' Pintail for a 9'2" Hobie Phil Edwards Model #31 Triple Stringer, signed "Phil '88" on the tail. I saw it in the window at the Antique store on State Street in Carlsbad. I had to have it.