Ben Liddell Fresh Air Decks

[Itsonlymoney!!!]

I’m having a bit of a clear out and thinking of letting my Fresh Air dec go If anyone on here is interested, could trade it also if it was for something interesting it had tail and nose guard all it’s days so in pretty good shape for a used deck alert from the missing H

[Firekill]

Hi , Just found this group ! Thanks for having me. Looking at the names on here I’ve bought and sold to most of you I reckon. have you still got the fresh air deck as I may be interested

[dcgnus]

Welcome aboard I think he sold it a bit back , what sort of stuff are you into

[Firekill]

Not really got a preference just 70s stuff in general, I do like the wider pig boards of the late 70s though but I haven’t got any OG ones just reissues or tributes. I am lucky enough to have one of the Ben Liddle reissues which I built up recently and it’s great.Just whatever takes my fancy I suppose. I buy and sell stuff mainly to fund my own collection.

[dcgnus]

Yes I got one of the reissues so that’s 2 out of the 10 accounted for , I sell a few bits sometimes usually to fund something else but nowadays there’s not much to buy really whereas a few years back there was loads available and it wasn’t dear but now even junk stuff people ask Brewsters for it

[Firekill]

Yeah I’ve been collecting around 8 years or so and since covid prices have shot up, I remember picking nos trackers up for £50-£60 whilst now ure looking 3 times that or more. I never had out descent as a kid just a Makaha poly prop which upgraded for a plywood deck. Kryptonics were a pipe dream on 10p a week pocket money.

[dcgnus]

Another Ben Liddell signature deck made by logos this was the connoisseur , made and distributed by logos of elsworthy road London ,

[Gibbs]

Totally, the originals had a rocker with a kinda hook tail, no concave (obvs!), they were also pressed from three sheets of three ply birch, each one 4mm thick.
The remakes/reissues look like 7 ply maple?

[Gibbs]

*the fresh air decks I'm talking about!

[Gibbs]

Never seen photos of any surviving Logos boards, anyone have one to gawp at here?

[dcgnus]

Yeh I don’t think we are going to find one of these boards in the flesh sort of speak

[Gibbs]

Yeh I don’t think we are going to find one of these boards in the flesh sort of speak

Sad times, though we live in hope!

[Itsonlymoney!!!]

Yeh I don’t think we are going to find one of these boards in the flesh sort of speak

This one has been on eBay for years, looks the right shape for the model he describes it as but is asking too much imo as ironically it has no top logo where they stickers or screened ?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/233862888201 ... R6apwrHVYw


I did see another on eBay a few years ago that had the top logo it went for “Benjy” sort of money , pretty sure I saved the photos at the time.

[dcgnus]

Yep it’s very “benjyesque” that Steve especially round the wheel wells , as you say the prices don’t add up wheels let’s say 40 quid ,trucks 50 to 70 quid meaning decks well over 300 for a essentially interesting but a no name deck so too expensive really for the market

[Gibbs]

I see, looks like the Logos deck was also made of birch ply, those dark glue lines and alternate ply directions give it away.
Arrow (another company from Wolverhampton) also used birch, I might have to start a new thread for that one!