{"database": "surfing", "table": "posts", "rows": [["223008", "11440", "Molded, Reverse Engineered, Handshaped by One Only...WHAT IS ACCEPTABLE TO YOU?", 34, "Bruce Fowler", "Oct 11, 2021", "2021-10-11T12:08:21-0400", "Surfnfish said: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n            so after the scan, which picks up use imperfections such as deck dents and such, the software has a filter to eliminate same..?\n        \n\n\nClick to expand...\n\n\n\n\nIt's way beyond that now.\n\n\n\nIn the case of the V8 Dansan's sharp eye picked up on & quickly bought, when I got it, it had side biter fins in the Futures rail boxes. Leon was doing his run heading south, and I was taking out the fins..... one of them had a stripped grub screw. Less than 30 minutes & counting to meet Leon out in Buellton where he'd stop to gas up.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe screw was so butchered, my tapping tool wasn't getting it, so I aborted the pick up.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThen I emailed Marie and she said \"I don't need the fin out\".\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Shape 3D program, unlike a \"probe\" can eliminate dents, dings, wax jobs.  I remember when Michael was still able to do all the scans & files that Owl Chapman had him do, he told Michael \"the files clean up my crap and make my boards better than I shaped them\".\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWell, that can be a good thing for a customer and a bad thing for shapers competing against guys that are now professing to be surfboard designers.  The program is somewhat 'intuitive' and can 'fill in gaps' for guys sitting at their computer.  Like Joey hotshot, self professed \"SURFBOARD DESIGNER\" whose family is so proud that he finally found something to do in life.  Joey sits at his computer and says \"I'm gonna make this rocker \"better\" by adding/reducing at the nose....... he puts in a couple dots on the profile diagram: one at the tip of the nose and one further back, let's say, 22\" back to 0\" at the nose........ instead of him having to put multiple points along that stretch, he can just do like an autopilot & let the software do it....... like commercial pilots on long flights where the plane is on autopilot the vast majority of the time.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI remember one guy I met that used to be a pilot for Continental and he said he quit & became a patent attorney because flying was one of the most mind numbing boring jobs he'd ever had. He told me,\" the planes can even land on auto pilot before you taxi the rest of the way in.  There's no love of flying going on.\"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSo when I look in my tea leaves, I see more n more self professed surfboard designers or engineers, some working with this or that chain of surfboard shops \"engineering\" new or retro or different just to be different surfboard designs that will diminish the validity of using someone like Shapewright, Lovelace, Yater, Perlee, Haut, Rawson, Rich, Pavel, Barnfield, Ricky Carroll ... or myself for that matter.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe future is already here, and it's getting less and less personal by the day.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUs \"living\" shapers are already competing with uh, \"dead shapers\" as it is........ all ya need is someone to scan that Weber Performer or something Michael Peterson or Midget or John Bradbury shaped back in their hey day....\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nP.S. Might be (probably is) just gossip, but at one time someone told me Merrick just shaped one side of a board then it was scanned. That certainly is possible.  Marie scanned my Tri Plane Hull fully shaped but not even glassed yet.  People are offering asymmetrical nowadays. I could use one blank, shape two entirely different designs for each side & it could be scanned for two different board models. The program can take \"the best side\" in a scan then mirror image it for the complete file...  anybody that equates a great shaper or surfboard because it is the most symmetrical is delusional, symmetry has nothing to do with a surfboard working well....... just ask Andreini, Wayne Rich, or just about any shaper you hold in high esteem."]], "columns": ["post_id", "thread_id", "thread_title", "post_number", "author_username", "post_date", "post_date_iso", "post_body"], "primary_keys": ["post_id"], "primary_key_values": ["223008"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.6002499976602849, "license": "Public Domain"}