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[yorky]

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Yorky- i’m with you on the machine cut outs. but by no means was this machined in any way. i just said i tried to simulate the board in the program aku shaper which is just a free download in which i created a template to go off however they do have software for the cnc machines. i think there was just a misunderstanding there. i know it’s not a standard fish but it;s what he wanted and he asked me if i could do something like the c.i. fishcuit so i tried to get it the closest i could. i personally ride my fish 5’10"- 6’0" i’m be straight forward with what i did and not trying to copy and claim it for my self. Although even the big name shapers copy and tweak each others shapes. everyone suspects the al merrick dumpster diver was a knock off of the roberts white diamond. virtually the same board merrick just put a squash tail one it. all the same i think all shapers are inspired by each other in one way or another and make little tweaks to call it their own.

 

i’ll try to put up a pic of the merrick fishcuit so you can see what i was going for. i personally think i got pretty close

here’s merricks/ the 6’4" big boy version for my buddy/ and the last is a 6’0" version i did for myself

 

 

Ok My misunderstanding.

But All the same, Regarding the machinist!  I don’t see much difference in the few people importing a mass of chinese boards selling them for cheap and the mass of machinists supplying every want a be shaper selling masses of board here cheap… The Cancer of our shaping industry.

And yeah I did see that you had hand shaped in your rail bands on a previous thread. So good on ya. And thanks for not calling me a fool for jumping the gun and ripping in to you.