Glue line stringers were fairly common during the transition era. Blank manufacturers cut the raw blank in half, the glued it back together with resin, sans wood.
The benefits of glue line blanks were practical (they gave shapers a reference point during the shaping process) and aesthetic (the finished boards seemed more stylish than 'Plain Jane' stringerless.) In the water, they were light and springy like stringerless boards...and were equally fragile as well.
This example is an early V bottom from Harbour...
They kept the Rapier model name from the longboard era...
7'5'' x 22"
Another example from the UK, 1968...
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