Hey people, after seeing Morning of the Earth for the first time and now still after about the 20th time i decided that i needed to shape my own boards. So for a couple of days now i have two blanks sitting in my room waiting to be shaped. This will be my first shaping effort but because i’m confident i can do the handy work (i have laminating and sanding experience from other work) i’ll be quite annoyed if they turn out crap. What i miss is knowledge of the relationship between shape and resulting surf-characteristics. What I haven’t been able to find is a nice overview of basic shape characteristics like where to put the widest part of the board, what is the advantage of wing(er)s or how does the outline affect the surfing, and a very exact discription of rail dimensions (again preferably including resulting surf characteristics), rockerline details are welcome aswell but less pending because i was told the blanks already have reasonable rocker. I want to shape something around a 5’8" round nosed oldschool fish and a 6’9" semi-gun. Thanks a lot for helping!
Hey, and I would like detailed dimensions of the 11’3" balsa board Jim Phillips has posted so I can try to copy one out of the block of eps that Lowes ordered from Insulfoam for me. Joe
the revolution is within you …at any point along the spectrum of knowledge you will decide you are ready …from a high criterion you will never be ready no matter how much you know… lower the criterion and you have always been ready…so many before you have had the blank and not followed through, start now make the racks …shape it thi afternoon glass it tonite ride it tomorrow…if its “crap”…give it to your 7 year old cousin she will love you dearly when you are an old ivalid retired fool… carp the diem vien coup …and go van gough paint your masterpiece…ambrose…making surfboards is applied madness…set yourself free madman…
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Please check Dave Parmenter’s piece on Surfboard Anatomy. It’s one of, if not THE most detailed explanations you’ll find on current surboard design. He includes everything from Guns and longboards to fish and tow-ins. Rocker, thickness and general specifications are included and should give you a great place to start! http://surfing.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fcontent.surfline.com%2Fmag%2Ffeatures%2Fanatomy%2Findex.html
jerry Lynn told me one time…“they all laughed behind simmons back,they thought he was wwaaaaaayyyyout there”… that mainstream stuff can be interesting …I guess… when you wrote simmons I did n’t think of posture pedic…bob simmons was a gift…too bad he didn’t outlive… me…ambrose…whould he even have talked to us?
While working next door to the Yater headquarters a couple of days ago, I poked in on, the young at heart, Mr. Yater to see what’s new. Along w/ the new surftech models, there was a replica Hawaii gun (11’) from 1958 or so. Single keel fin w/ multiple stringers in 0pposing curves. Inquiring deeper into this board, I found out the stringers were put in place by Jim Phillips in San Diego w/ an unreal glass job by Channen. I think the original board can be viewed on the Yater webpage in the history section. Hearing Simmons name mentioned above made me think of the picture in Renny’s office of Kivlin riding BIG Rincon 1948 on a Simmons w/ one of those little keel fins. Right next to the Kivlin photo is a photo of 18 year old Oliver Parker riding 10’+ indicator Rincon, winning the Rincon Classic, two years ago, on Renny’s HP 3 fin surftech. Sorry for veering off topic. No plug intended for surftech. Just an observation of innovation from old to new. Pretty cool guy in my book.