Hi Andy, Im reall excited about your website, theres so much to research about planshapes.
The planshapes will have numerical dims as well as just lines wont it ?
While we wait, anyone know the variations of width, 12 up and 12 down, of a board 6'2". If not I'll have to wait for Andys website to find out.
The outlines will have height/width dimensions obviously but not tail/nose measurements displayed. It proved too much trouble to gather all that info for all of the templates i’m making available, unfortunately. I’m hoping, though, if anyone needs an outline meeting specific dimensions (including widepoint, nose, tail, etc) that they’ll utilize the custom option. I’m still toying around with how exactly this process will work, but i promise it will be easy, fast and cheap.
How about having a comment box so people can fill in additional information on each template ?
That’s interesting…hadn’t thought about that. Might be cool to have some user feedback on a specific template.
another minor update…
if you drill down into shortboard A, you’ll see what the final ‘sizes to download’ pages will look like.
Yeah…to be honest, i’ve actually been considering dropping this idea all together. I really just want to put up the ones i have and be done with it. Plus, as you point out, i’m not sure how popular it would be considering you can do it yourself.
This sounds like a great idea! Having a collection of refined templates readily available could save a lot of time and effort for people who want to DIY their own boards. As for pricing, maybe you could offer a few templates for free to draw people in and then charge a small fee for the rest. Customizing templates for a small additional fee sounds fair too, especially if it helps cover your costs and keeps you creating.
By the way, if you’re thinking about a website for this, you might want to check out the Journeya travel agency HTML template. It’s actually perfect for tours and travel agencies, but I think its clean and flexible design could work well for your catalog too. Good luck with your project!
OH wow…blast from the past. Thread is 14 years old and www.blendingcurves.com is still active…but very stagnant.
Not in my house! Thanks for creating an amazing resource. I have taken elements of lots of different outlines and blended them with boards I own or have repaired to create my own outlines for potential boards.
I for one am very appreciative for what blendingcurves put together. I’ve built at least a dozen boards over the years based off of their templates. Short A.
It was a good idea but didn’t need to be a website. He just needed to have an amazon S3 dump of all the files and one web page with every link to them. Any custom work, maybe then a fee made sense.
Hey mate! First of all, that website is insanely helpful and helped a lot of us (including me, who just started). But it seems that now its down!
If its a thing about money hosting it, Im sure we can do something about it, since a lot of us were using it, and I guess absolutely everybody appreciated such an good resources place!
Its a shame if it disappears, maybe as a comunity is time to give back everything it gave to us, right?
i tried to contact also, via swaylocks and gmail.
no awnser yet.
cheers and good waves.
a good example of what can be done is what was dome with the sheldon brown bikes website.
the website was an encyclopedia anf when sheldon brown died in 2008 the site went down, it was then brought up and is active still to this day.
Neddless to say that was a site about DIY and a lot of people were bumed by it going down.
so i have all the files from the fish, eggs, and shortboards.
lets find the rest and set a download folder somewhere.
theree must have been someone that downloaded everything on case this situacion happened.
cheers and good waves.
I’ll see if I have kept downloads of the templates I have used including fins. Happy to help … if I’ve kept them!
ok, if you have kept them let me know how to get them, that would be grand.
i have downloaded the fishes, eggs and shorties.
but i always had my eyes on the nuggets and aipas and the fins.
kind of blame myself for not have downloaded everything
if you want the ones i have also let me know.
cheers and good waves.
I’ll have a hunt for you. Definitely downloaded a couple of Nugs and have made templates but not sure if I kept the downloads. Like you, I’m wondering why I just didn’t download and print everything!
lots of work digging but…
ok i found all the files for the outlines i am organising them and i guess i will finish tomorrow
lets see how we go about making them available for whoever needs them.
meanwhile the site might get up again.
any sugestion?? ( i was thinking google drive link on a shared folder)
cheers and good waves
Someone should reach out to Andrew @jjlam and find out what he’s going to do/ would like to do with the site and data.
There was an incident not so long ago when another popular ‘board’ website was decommissioned and someone ‘revived’ it, causing a misunderstanding and bad feelings with the owner. It got worked out but perhaps the angst could have been avoided.
How would you feel if someone else posted the entire body of your work without permission?
