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Thursday, November 22, 2007
Bing, Mike Eaton and Matt Calvani, What's the Connection
Bing opened his first surf shop in the fall of 1959 with his friend Rick Stoner and became one of the major surfboard manufactures of the sixties and early seventy's. A year after they opened, Rick decided to sell Bing his portion of the business thus came Bing Surfboards. The business grew at an exponential rate, and Bing expanded his factory to include a glassing area and a team of first-rate shapers, including Dick Mobley, Mike Eaton, Dan Bendiksen, John Mobley, Wayne Land, and George Lanning and then eventually Dick Brewer also joined the team.
At one point, the factory produced up to 40 surfboards a day. In addition to his board-building team, Bing also had a star team of riders, including David Nuuhiwa, Dru Harrison, Chris Schlickenmeyer, and Rolf Aurness just to name a few.
The late 60s was the beginning of the end for the major manufacturers. It was a time of the “back yard board” and “no label” surfboards. Bing along with his master shapers and new designers, the Campbell Brothers, transitioned to shorter boards with a few models, but despite Bing Surfboard’s continued popularity, sales declined and it became obvious to Bing that the business may not survive. It was also around this time that Bing and his wife, Conlee, decided it might be best to move their young family away from the drug scene that had developed surrounding Hermosa Beach. Bing decided to pursue a career change and moved his family to Idaho.
In 1974, G&S took on the license of Bing Surfboards then Mike Eaton continued the Bing legacy through the 80s and 90s. Until one day in Baja in 2000, where Bing and his family spend their winters, Bing was surfing one of his favorite spots and a car pulled up with a group of young guys. One of the guys approached Bing and claimed to owe him some royalty money for some Bing & Rick surfboards that he had made for Rick Surfboards.
This young man then offered to make Bing’s boards if he was ever interested. Bing casually mentioned this to his good friend Mike Eaton, who had been building the boards up until then, and Mike was happy to pass along the legacy to the new generation of surfboard shapers. This young man was Matt Calvani. To this day, Bing and his family live in the mountains of Idaho and spend their winters surfing in the warm waters of southern Baja, not forgetting to stop in on Matt and his surfboard manufacturing team located at Shoreline Glassing.
Excerpt From: Bing Surfboards
http://www.bingsurf.com/history.html
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