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1970           Jackson Egg.      5ft   5"
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MANUFACTURE
MANUFACTURER: Jackson Surfboards
57 Captain Cook Drive Caringbah NSW 2229 Phone : 02 9524 2770
SHAPER: Laurie Byrne
DESIGN: Egg
DESIGNER: Wayne Lynch/Nat Young
SPECIFICATIONS
CONSTRUCTION
Foam blank with black glue line stringer. Volan glassed with tinted bottom, Vee tail patch and foil fin patch. Resin pin lines.
DIMENSIONS
Length :
 5
 ft
 5
 inches

Width :
 19 3/4
 inches
Wide Point :
+ve 2
 inches
Nose :
 15
 inches
Tail :
 15
 inches
Thickness :
 2 1/2
 inches
Pod :
 0
 inches
Nose Lift :
   inches
Tail Lift :
   inches
Weight :
   kilos
Volume :
   litres
Other, Flyer/s :
   inches

 
FEATURES:
Nose: round
Tail: round
Deck: rolled S deck
Bottom: flat
Rails: 50/50 to down at the tail
Rocker:
FIN
 8 1/2'' x 5 '' base,
black/red laminate.
DECOR
DECAL/S
Deck
' Designed and Shaped by Laurie 'Froggy' Byrne.
Brian Jackson Surfboards' 
embellished coloured foil at centre
Bottom
' Designed and Shaped by Laurie Froggy Byrne. 
Brian Jackson Surfboards' 
embellished coloured foil at sweet spot.
MARKINGS
Deck: 
Bottom:
COLOUR
Deck: clear with blue tint laminated Vee dtail patch and rail overlaps. Red resin pinlines.
Bottom: laminated blue tint with foil fin patch
NOTES
BOARD HISTORY
Nowra tip, March 2000. Paul Flack Collection.
Damage to nose bottom and fin tip. 
Photographs October 2000.
COMMENTS: Early shaper decal of the 1970's.
REFERENCES
Web Sites
Brian Jackson Surfboards
Books
Margan and Finney: Pictorial History (1970) pages 198-199.
Magazines
Pacific Longboarder magazine Vol 1 # 4 Pages 35 - x 
CONDITION: 4
Right: Laurie Byrne shaping at Jackson Surfboards, circa 1970. 
Laurie Byrne subsequently worked  for Byrne (no relation) Surfboards, Wollongong NSW,
 where he shaped many boards for Tom Carroll. 
Photograph courtesy of Jackson Surfboards.

Printed in Margan and Finney: Pictorial History (1970) page 198.
Other photographs in this section (Making a Board) include the above decal, page 199.

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