{"database": "surfing", "table": "posts", "rows": [["223074", "11440", "Molded, Reverse Engineered, Handshaped by One Only...WHAT IS ACCEPTABLE TO YOU?", 51, "Sax-son", "Oct 12, 2021", "2021-10-11T21:37:57-0400", "SeniorGrom said: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n            Sax....how would the shaper you are approaching know that you have any clue what you are asking for?  Will you have a way to evaluate whether the results in any way come close to an original Performer or Spoon?  I doubt many surfers could.  Do you even own a rocker stick to compare one essential aspect.  The whole assumption seems very odd to me.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you are taking an original and saying \"scan this and make me one\".  Maybe I understand.\n        \n\n\nClick to expand...\n\n\n\n\nIn this particular case, I know what those boards are because I rode a bunch of them over the years. For me personally, I have trusted the shapers I used and they would not have taken on the job if they didn't know what they were doing. I had that much faith in them and I was rarely let down. I know at least a half dozen shapers right off the top of my head that know those boards inside and out. As far a using someone I have not had experience with? That could be a different story. That is a situation where you have to do your homework first and get  feedback on their reputations.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI once tried to get Greg Liddle to shape me a 9'8\" Yater Spoon replica. At that time, shapers were just starting to do longboards again. Greg turned me down because  the Clark Foam longboard blanks at that time had a strange rocker profile. Greg knew that he could not build me a board that size because he felt that it wouldn't be specification correct nor would it be right for him to take on the job. He said he could build me a 9'0\" but not a 9' 8\". Although disappointed, I always admired him for that and I felt he had my best interests at heart. I could have been taken advantage of by a different shaper, but not him."]], "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": ["223074"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.686529998347396, "license": "Public Domain"}