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| 153633 | 6778 | Shaper thread (show us what you are shaping) | 7 | JBorbone | Aug 1, 2019 | 2019-08-01T15:18:39-0400 | Bruce Fowler said: View attachment 12809 View attachment 12810 View attachment 12811 Okay, so that being said, NOTHING BEING POSTED HERE IS SUGGESTING YOU BUY IT. Don't even read this if you are gonna have a stick up your.......... I'm considered a "pro" but I do shape in my garage at home. Yes I have had shops, but those days are gone & I'm happy to sub out the work to people I trust. FWIW, I can build a board start to finish with the best of them. 50+ years sorta does that for ya. I appreciate the guys that have shaped 3, 30, 300 or 3,000 boards. They are keeping the craft alive. That's note easy these days, and there aren't that many of us left in the 30K+ club. In my book, Stoke is Stoke, no matter how many you've shaped. I support others shapers............ the newbies present fresh perspectives and I find some of the old guys are more likely to stab you in the back. :-( Okay............ so with all those disclaimers, hopefully I won't get reamed for posting what I'm currently working on. I think it's out of the norm and really fun to be exploring. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ How to advance the art of designing surfboards? Have excellent riders that can chase swells across the globe testing the new stuff you put under their gifted feet. Case in point, we are powering out 2 new sleds for Brand Ambassador, Derek Thomas so he can hop a plane Sunday to meet up with a 6-10 ft. swell in Oaxaca. He will test a 6'10" Stinger, a 6'6" New Machine & he's bringing along his twinny for good measure. THE STINGER is the one I'm keen on collecting DATA. I just spoke to Cole @ Futures & he's getting me this group of fins by tomorrow to test on Da Sting. How often does a designer get a chance to collect this much info on a design down at his local beach??? LEAD, FOLLOW, OR GET OUT OF THE WAY! :-O View attachment 12805 View attachment 12806 View attachment 12807 View attachment 12808 Click to expand... Wow that incut looks to be super far off the tail! Very AIPA, very cool. Any reason you seem to prefer Futures or do you just have a good relationship with them? I find their "fit" in the box to be a bit inconsistent. Also, those almost look like machine grooves on your blank, but the outline isn't cut yet. Are you using the machine to just "profile" the raw blank to work rocker and concave in, then cut the outline by hand afterwards? I remember seeing those profiling machine in old videos of Greg Noll shaping boards in the 60s and this image made me think of that. |