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| 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: 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. If you are taking an original and saying "scan this and make me one". Maybe I understand. Click to expand... In 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. I 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. |