Hey guys. So I am hoping to make a full high performance surfboard I do not have a planer so I usually create my file in aku shaper and then send it off to a guy who cuts my foam.
One problem is that I really don’t know where to start my judgement on Akushaper is terrible. I know dimensions rocker concave that I want but what gets me the most is the thickness between each part of the board. The generic surfboard seems to have a lot of thickness aorund the surfboard. So basically I was wondering whether anyone had any aku shaper high performance surfboard files or whether they can help me out making my own. Would be very greatly appreciated.
Another part is glassing the last two boards I made havenot been light enough for my likings yet my largest board with quad axial carbon fibre cloth is actually the lightest with another two layers of 6oz cloth O_O. Anyway I am going to go with one layer quad axial top and another on bottom let me hear your thoughts on that.
Thankyou very much! Any help would be greatly appreciated!
…hello, I am not a machine advocate so I cannot help there but can help with the lightness giving you the idea that Surfblanks Brazil or Aussie land are way lighter than USA foam. In that way you save weight and then you have stronger glass work with less weight.
You are not going to like what I have to say, and I’m not trying to step on you BUT…you have started a bad path. A slippery slope. You need to put in the time on building boards. Just knowing how to manipulate a mouse in not shaping. You have to know the why’s amd wherefore’s to be able to DESIGN a working shape. I’m not down on AkuShaper in fact, I think it is a great product for putting to use what you have ALREADY learned. You have to do the work and pay your dues. NO OTHER WAY AROUND IT. Research what you need to find out. Use our imagination and draw out some templates by hand. Draw cross sections of the kind of rails that please you. Learn the different applications of tail shapes: pin, rounded pin, squaretail, squash, swallow, all of them. If you don’t know the function of each component, then how can you shape a board much less a “high performance surfboard”? Think about this, you are aking a group of people that have paid their dues mostly by trial and error to give away what they fought for. Join the fight. Make mistakes and ask questions so you will gain knowledge. You seem to want to make boards. I hope you want to learn about the process. After all that, then get into fins; shape, foils, placement etc. If you are doing it right the learning never stops. Keep going, keep learning. Make some boards ALL BY HAND!! Catalog your discoveries and THEN design.What happens when the power goes out? Don’t stop…change your methods. Come back, ask some pointed questions and learn why. Best of luck.
I dont own a planer i down own a legitament shaping bay im 16 and with thr amount of foam spitting all over my parents house nah cant do that. Trust me i would love to do that but i dont have the space. So while im atill at home i jjst have to make do with what i have
Go to a surf shop and ask them to let you take some measurements.
One of the big pincer type tools that allows you to get the thickness of the board at tail 3,6,12 inches from the tail and same from the nose, etc.
I suggest you use mm as its easier to measure them.
If you’re learning, just glass in 4-4 on top and a 4 on the bottom. Cause it won’t really matter if the board doesn’t last too long. You’re growing so you will be needing bigger boards each year or so.
Its not very environmentally minded but see how you go.
You can always make adjustments to your file between each board.
Where are you based, see if you can make some local connections.
I just want to say that I have not done this, although I have been wanting to do this to one of my boards that is 100% hand shaped. Cause its rad and I want to be able to make a few tweaks on it.
If you cannot shape at home because of the mess, how are you going to get through all the rest of the sanding, plug instals, glassing, and even more sanding at home?
Any chance of becoming part-time help at a local shaper in return for advice and work space?
Basically resin is easy to contain there is hardly any foam shaved when just sanding a pre cut blank but if I was buying a blank from scratch it would take a lot of foam off and I just can’t deal with that mess.
Basically I’m trying to go for a replicate of Mick fannigs jbay board except for the swallow tail and channels.
This SHITE makes me want to give up offering any advice at all. Geez, why don’t you just ask M. Fanning to give you one of his new shapes or get him to sponsor you? LACK OF VISION IS FOR THOSE THAT FAIL TO SEE. Gimmee gimmee gimme.
Everyone starts with a mess up. If you want to learn to paint, you can’t make the Mona Lisa on your first day.
CAD programs suck when you are not familiar with end results. Even if the program is 3D, the board or whatever you draw is not always what you get. You can’t touch or feel it. Specially with fluent shapes like surfboards.
Keep the Stoke and try starting at lokal shaper. Or start on pieces of foam. Then you will learn and understand. Many of the people here are 4x your age (16). They haven’t learnd in an afternoon. I think when you ask your question differently, the forum can help.
Guys I really do understand and I want to pre shape a foam blank. Doubt any of you blokes had the vision I have when you were 16 but its all I have got and I’m just trying to make do.
The shape was only one part now how about the lightness of a surfboard strangely my first board I made was the lightest yet it had 2 6 oz one quad axial glassing. Maybe the foam??
No offence, but please re-read the topic and all the comments.
Google your questions on swaylocks. Most of your questions are already asked before and well answered.
But please slow down. Your vision is great, and keep it that way. Over think before you ask. Google first. If you really are 16, I understand your motivation.
Try and give it a go through your hands. It’s good to thing to think about the glassing. But until now there is nothing to put it on.
First board was a spare machine cut blank my dad had from a school he worked at. It was a 6’4 already cut into a regular surfboard and basically started from that. I’m contemplating whether to do that again