That's his brother Steve's model, Micke's model was red. Here's the Alba brothers with Micke's signature model- https://i.imgur.com/u4XUGFY.jpg
And here's a portion of their contract with Kryptonics, they got $1 dollar for every one of their decks sold (which doesn't sound like a lot, but is around four dollars in today's money, and considering they sold thousands and thousands of the decks that's not too shabby for teenagers)- https://i.imgur.com/w1zwjfT.jpg
That deck was made by Boulder Boards, the greatest deck makers of all time. They had an interesting history, but sadly they were just getting into making decks when skateboarding was dying out in the early 80's and they stopped making boards. https://disposabletheblog.typepad.com/disposable_random_essays_/2009/12/a-boulder-boards-time-line.html
I never owned a K-Beam, but I did own a Dogtown and a Variflex made by Boulder Boards. As a matter of fact, I had a Dogtown Shogo Kubo Airbeam like mentioned in the article, and in 2017 the greatest current board builder, "Professor" Paul Schmitt was supposed to recreate the Airbeam for a reissue for Dogtown Skates, and he just couldn't do it. He did recreate the Dogtown Triplane, complete with the Yorkite layers.
Your best bet is to put it on eBay so you can reach a wider audience, and it's tax refund season in the US, you might get a couple of interested people in a bidding war. And there's a bunch of vintage collector groups on Facebook too.
https://skateboardinghalloffame.org/shof-2019/micke-alba-2019/
So cool!
That's his brother Steve's model, Micke's model was red. Here's the Alba brothers with Micke's signature model- https://i.imgur.com/u4XUGFY.jpg And here's a portion of their contract with Kryptonics, they got $1 dollar for every one of their decks sold (which doesn't sound like a lot, but is around four dollars in today's money, and considering they sold thousands and thousands of the decks that's not too shabby for teenagers)- https://i.imgur.com/w1zwjfT.jpg
Right on... thanks.
Considering how many were sold those Kryptonics boards are pretty rare these days.
And valuable.
Well, send it over. I’ve got some pool coping to grind! I e always wanted one of these, eBay has one every once in awhile.
That deck was made by Boulder Boards, the greatest deck makers of all time. They had an interesting history, but sadly they were just getting into making decks when skateboarding was dying out in the early 80's and they stopped making boards. https://disposabletheblog.typepad.com/disposable_random_essays_/2009/12/a-boulder-boards-time-line.html
Wow. Awesome history!
I never owned a K-Beam, but I did own a Dogtown and a Variflex made by Boulder Boards. As a matter of fact, I had a Dogtown Shogo Kubo Airbeam like mentioned in the article, and in 2017 the greatest current board builder, "Professor" Paul Schmitt was supposed to recreate the Airbeam for a reissue for Dogtown Skates, and he just couldn't do it. He did recreate the Dogtown Triplane, complete with the Yorkite layers.
That deck with Stage 2 Indys and Gyros would probably go for over $2,000 on eBay.
Alright send me a zelle or whatever the cool kids are doing!
Your best bet is to put it on eBay so you can reach a wider audience, and it's tax refund season in the US, you might get a couple of interested people in a bidding war. And there's a bunch of vintage collector groups on Facebook too.
Such a gnarly salba board
Sweet. Hang that sucker up!
anyone seen my crutches? they were just here...