Purchased on Ebay April 10, 2022

I'm looking forward to working on this board. It's in great shape and will skate or display awesome when done!

The bottom graphics are holding on strong but it does have some history on top. 

Here at V.E.S. I like to work with different shades of light, not only to see problems better, but to match up the vintage paint so it displays well for a long time.

Some nicks 

Hardly any 7 ply separation- this thing feels like a solid bat!!

The tail is in good shape.

Some small chipping but the original shape is still there.

Same story on this side.

The edging on this board will be an easy fix- just not sure if it should stay wood or back to black paint. What do you think? This board will be for sale when done so if you want it let me know how to steer this board's future!

As you can see this board was already customized before I got it. The extra holes will be fixed and sealed back up in this restoration. And just think how many shoes this old ruff grip-tape chewed up - And maybe some skin! This is the kind of stuff back in the day that made a skater tough!!!

Not too much flexing or warping for this board over the years so it should display well on a wall or go straight down the road like new when built. I've just bought some vintage Gullwing Pro 3 trucks from ebay to go on this build. Pics of trucks and parts to come soon.

Over the years, I have gotten pretty good at taking stickers off boards and being able to save them. But these paper ones are hard so let's see what happens.

I picked these trucks up on Ebay last week from a seller that sells a lot of vintage skateboard stuff. These trucks were bought on May 26, 2022. Cost me $94.00 with shipping.

The trucks are in great shape- not much grinding. Not sure the direction yet with these,  but when done they will match the board well!!

Now the search goes on for wheels, any ideas on what would look good? Let me know.

Vintage used red Kryptonic Pro 3 wheels: all 4 are in about the same shape. They came off another vintage Ebay buy complete skateboard package I just got on June 1, 2022. When refurbished for this project they should be perfect.

A little rust never hurts anything- unless you get to it too late.

Once again, I use a black lights to match up colors between the board and its parts. Hope to start on this soon but it's getting busy around here!!

The wheels have been refurbished with a satin gloss. The vintage bearings cleaned up nice to match the wheels well.

These wheels were not cleaned up on a lathe, to look better. Each one was done by hand to get them to look good and match this skateboard build well with some save history.

These wheels did clean up nice, but they do have some imperfections. Such as the inner hard plastic is worn and has some cracking.

When wheels get old and used some get bearing flop to the point the bearings just fall out of the wheel. And what was left holding them apart, was not much even if you use a bearing spacer. And if the bearings get over tightened to clean up the wheel slop, they might just break their housing and hurting the value of these wheels.

I used on these wheels, a custom sized washer, front and back to grip and bite the bearing location better than just the bearing alone. Between the washers is a wheel spacer locked in place. This gives the bearing a great backing, and it puts more reliable spin back into the wheel, used or not.

If used for display, the bearing are raised out just a little, it doesn't look so sunk into the wheel anymore, it looks more even. And if the wheels are used to go down the road for a real classic ride, they are ready.