These guys are taking applications for a new shaping instruction school.
Learn all the fundamentals of shaping in a crash course one day workshop.
In a one week timeframe you will learn all the skills required to post your finest work and compare yourself to seasoned pro’s.
Glassing, finning, sanding, glossing, polishing, CNC cutting, and marketing your surfboards globally.
This is an example of their students fine work.
Is that the Basic Surfboard or is that the Felix Tail model?
hahaha, now that is a WONKY rail.
I shaped one like that a while back and ended up trashing the board because of it.
This could actually be a good thing for guys like you Barry.
Folks will go to this class and learn that it’s a lot harder than it looks and at least appreciat craftsmen like yourself more.
Do they reveal the secret of addressing the blank?
He has one hand on the cord for safety. If something goes wrong he can unplug really fast!
From their website, “Funboard:each layers of 4 oz and 6 oz fibergrass on the deck”
Fibergrass? They type with an accent too?
Hey, if they can teach me the zen mysteries of addressing a blank SIGN ME UP!!!
Is he planing or ironing a shirt?
Youve missed the shaping section where you start with a 6’6" shortboard, then change your mind and cut it down to 6’2" twin fin, then change your mind and cut it down to 5’5" quad fin, channel bottom, double concave, spiral vee with belly with longboard rails up front and shortboard rails through the tail, then adjust the rocker 3 times to finish it off.
I can’t agree more on that. Every board I attempt to make, makes me want to pay a good shaper, i.e., a true craftsman, whatever they ask.
The Fine Art of ADDRESSING The Blank, thus: Hello Blank, my name is Bill, I’m here to help you become more than you are now. Your name right now, is not important. When I’m done helping you become more, I’ll give you a new and exciting name. If things go as planned, your new name will be, …(drumroll)…, THE MAGIC TURD !
That, Gentlemen, is the proper way to do it.
Thanks, Barry, that first picture of the guy ironing that blank made me spray beer on my iPad! +10!
East LA school of shapin’
Low rider…
At this school do the instructors fill the heads of the impressionable students with their thoughts on lowly backyard builders?
Anybody else notice the newspaper used to cover the shaping racks? No problem with ink transfer on to a nice clean blank.