Hi All,
Here’s a complete guide to shaping from DP. I posted it in the resources but decided to post a thread just in case anyone searched for it.
Rio
Hey Daklaw,
You’re an idiot for forgetting the accompanying webpage of that article. Here it is with videos and diagrams. taken from Surfline.com.
http://www.surfline.com/mag/features/how_to_shape/summary.html
Rio
A link to another excellent companion article by Dave Parmenter can be found in resources section… submitted by Haavard a couple of years ago. Somebody might copy it from the source before it becomes a dead link?
Does anyone know if there is an expanded version of this Parmenter guide available?DVD or VHS?
DVDs are shaping 101 and master shaper series. I’ve got em on order I can’t wait.
Wheeee!
Shaping, Glassing, Airbrushing 101 is let’s say…needy. You’ll look at it once and say hey, I already know all that stuff from Swaylocks. It’s very entry level. it’s a great tape for a grom that wants, music and surf footage along with some instruction.
If you want a great instructional CD, get the Dasmacus products with Jim P. There’s a ton of information that you’ll watch over and over. It’s very comprehensive, and will have you shaping a board the works pretty good if you don’t have an incident with the power tools.
-Jay
Where could I find that CD? Thank you .
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Shaping, Glassing, Airbrushing 101 is let’s say…needy. You’ll look at it once and say hey, I already know all that stuff from Swaylocks. It’s very entry level. it’s a great tape for a grom that wants, music and surf footage along with some instruction.
If you want a great instructional CD, get the Dasmacus products with Jim P. There’s a ton of information that you’ll watch over and over. It’s very comprehensive, and will have you shaping a board the works pretty good if you don’t have an incident with the power tools.
-Jay
thanks heaps for that Daklaw , I always enjoy reading Dave Parmenter’s writings !
cheers
ben
Dave is an opinionated guy who I dont always agree with, but I always enjoy his writing. His Hands, Brain, and Soul article on Surfline is what got me started into shaping after 25 years surfing (and also lead me to find swaylocks)
I spend some time this morning and extracted the text from both articles and glued in the graphics from the flash versions into two word documents and have put them and Dave’s two previous dissertations on the state of the industry into a zipped archive which can be possibly emailed depending on your bandwidth. It’s about 1.4 megs for all four documents. The downloaded short .wmv movie file is about 8 megs… way too big for most email systems…
If you are interested and you email system/provider can handle the document size PM me and I’ll email them to you so you can print and keep them for “offline” reading.
I also have these downloaded adobe acrobat files which can also be zipped and forwarded:
223 KB - Grubby Clark - Future of the Surfboard Industry
3.8 MB - Surfboard Design and Contruction Techniques
385 KB - Paine - The Hydrodynamics of Surfboards
482 KB - Ground Swell - Gary Young
511 KB - SP Guide to Composite Construction
It’d be nice to archive all this along with a sorted indexed version of Sways on a CD/DVD and sell it as a way to help pay for Mike’s site… Most of this is public info anyway, its the consolidating and standardizing that’s the hardpart…
You learn shaping from boook?..hahahaha
I can only hope Dave has gotten a little more realistic in his views on shaping. I read an article of his some years ago, and used it as an example of poor writing for a course in writing and logic. I am sure he may be a nice guy, and from what I’ve read, he shapes some good boards… come to think of it I did read some of his more recent stuff… still sounds like a “guru/kook” to me. but what do I know… Can’t say some info is better than none if it’s bad info.
Keep up the great work everbody… this place rules. Taylor
Guru maybe, probably a little eccentric, but he is definitely not a kook (in the surfing sense). I dont know him personally, but the central coast is a small area and we a several mutual friends. The guy is a great shaper and a great surfer.
Don’t forget this one Oneula;
http://naturalcurvesboards.com/PDF/SurfboardDesign.pdf
Just wish the section on rails and foils were done with being edited…would really like to read what they have to say on rail shape/influence. Excellent breakdown on the requirements of different types of boards and how they influence design/construction (though geared entirely towards pu/pe).
Enjoy!
Thanks GWN
I had that one too…
Forgot about it.
I’ll tell you this though people don’t realize it but it’ll all be gone one day just like when Paul pulled his build guide…
The internet and the information it contains is constantly changing dead links are common place…
If there’s something good you should bag for a rainy day cause it may not be there tomorrow.
The same thing could happen to sways and the archives…
When John tossed out that comment it triggered a lightbulb off in my head that none of this stuff we access here is permanent unless you spend the time to make it so…
Thanks again
Yeah - Sorry, I am sure, as I said, he may be a nice guy, and I have heard/read he surf well. But, what I can’t get behind is his quasi-mysto thing about where his, and by extension your, head should be at to shape well. I’ll shut up now, I’m shutting up, see - I’m zipping my lips now, I’m shutting up…