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| 8720 | 119 | questioning the process | 18 | gene | Apr 25, 2007 | 2007-04-25T05:54:46-0400 | MonkeyBoy wrote: I was always under the impression that your boards were 100% handshaped....still some bitchin boards regardless Click to expand... regardless? of what? sorry to ruin it for you MB but that was just a romantic vision you were clinging to. i do enjoy shaping new stuff from raw and do it often but if i'm making very many of the same thing then eventually shape one for programming. also, i have some programs that act as close tolerance blanks and just have my starting rocker and thickness'. next time you wonder why shapers use the machine these days throw away your pc, dust off an old typewriter, and write to all your LB network freinds via US mail and wait for their response by the same method. the quality of the conversations won't be any richer but they will take longer. i would be interested to see a list of the shapers(shaped over 1000 or so boards) that you(MB) think never used a machine. i won't enlighten you because most shapers want you to hold on to your vision. but as consumers become more educated i would think the taboo factor would disipate. to answer your question MB, its an average of 2 hours of actual shaping on a cut blank. if it's not cut then it's about 3 to 4 hours unless it's some big gun or something new, in that case i'll just keep going till it's done then look at it again the next day and clean it up more. i know i'm a putzer and that the production guys can shape from raw faster than i can shape from the machine. i got a lot of flack in my younger days for my lack of speed and my response to that is that putzing is what makes me happy. hope that clears it up for you |