I’ve got a need to borrow/rent a shaping room for a day to mow out 3 or 4 boards. My set up is out of commission right now and I’m falling behind.
I can pay $10 per board, have all my own tools, and will follow the etiquette of leaving your room immaculate if I can have a day in it.
I’d really appreciate the favor if anyone can oblige. I’m in the Santa Ynez Valley so I’m kind of central to SB, Santa Maria but would even go further north if need be.
Thanks in advance.
Happy New Year!
UPDATE: SINCE I POSTED THIS, I SAID HELL WITH IT AND BUILT MY OWN ROOM. NOW I CAN JUST WALK OUT OF THE HOUSE AND CRANK UP THE PLANER. I GUESS IF YOU WANT IT Done…DIY!!!
Why not use the room at Clyde Beatty’s in SB? Their on Clay street.
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I’ve got a need to borrow/rent a shaping room for a day to mow out 3 or 4 boards. My set up is out of commission right now and I’m falling behind.
I can pay $10 per board, have all my own tools, and will follow the etiquette of leaving your room immaculate if I can have a day in it.
I’d really appreciate the favor if anyone can oblige. I’m in the Santa Ynez Valley so I’m kind of central to SB, Santa Maria but would even go further north if need be.
Thanks in advance.
That’s Gray Ave. and I’ve been using the room. But currently the former manager Mike Cloonan is in the room doing a project (not surfboards)…he’s been in here at least a week and there is no telling when he’ll be done. This s Lauren’s (Yater) old room and unfortunately the room next door that was Rennie’s is now any airbrush booth. The airbrush room had been across the parking lot in my old repair shop when I gave it to Clyde for airbrushing space, but he later consolidated things to save on overhead. Rennie’s room was much more to my liking then Lauren’s. Then we all moved into the quanset hut a block down the street and each of us (Rennie, Lauren, Max, Brom, Kevin, Wayne, myself) all had our own respective rooms to ourselves with air conditioning and the individual sizes we preferred. We could house hundreds of blanks and it had a roll up door for loading and off loading…different times now, sad to say.
I’m pretty much resigned to getting a pile of lumber and framing in a room up here. I’ve got a 3 car garage and a small workshop adjacent (behind the 2 car part. In the single car part I will create a shaping room that can double as a sanding room. I can create a windtunnel directing air to a drop chute for dust to collect from an insert I can design for the door being partially raised. By using push fans rather than draw fans (blades have differet pitch for draw and it takes much more draw (power) to be effective than push using cheap $20 box fans that you can run all month for $5 to $10. At the Underground we had a sanding room that had originally been my shaping room. When BK (Bob Krause) closed out his shop and joined me he brought ‘the mother of all fans’ over to my shop. We built a cage for it, cut exit holes and feed slots at the opposite end from the fan, we installed deflectors at each feed to direct the feed air to the racks that were in the center of the room. We also put foam gaskets on the door to seal the room better. We had side and overhead lights that were all previously there that turned on or off independently of each other as needed. We had a wallrack holding three grinders with 3 different pads and grits for quick change non stop sanding of boards. We also did all our routing in this room.
Once you started the fan, the air movement was so powerful you could not have cut sandpaper or the like on the deck of the board as it would be whisked away from the suction. I would say the blades were about 4-1/2 to 5 ft. across with a powerful motor to power the fan.
I’ve never seen a better sanding room ever.
Oh well, back to reality. I was hoping someone ‘up the line’ in Pismo or Cayucos or wherever might let me duck in and whip on a few to stay on target…I prefer going south but maybe even south to Ventura? Guess this just screams to me I need my own room.
Gray Avenue - I’ve only been there a few times. I live in HB.
Wayne Rich, Clyde Beatty and Casey McCrystal are good friends of mine.
I did not realize you were once at the old Yater shop.
My shaping bay is is large 14’ x 9’ x 12’ finished ceiling with overhead lights for templating. The walls are a bit dark, however I have really good shadow lighting because I use my room to design boards as well as shaping. The light boxes are 10 feet long on both sides of the wall. My racks are adjustable to do grom boards (I make a lot of them) and SUP’s (once in a while). One thing I need as you mentioned is better air flow. That’s the show stopper in my room. You got me motivated to correct that right away (like next week). I will add Exhaust fans and intake ports to keep a steady exchange of AIR. Jeff Holty at US Blanks still has some parts from the Old Clark factory for the vacuun system for the planner. Now there’s one more thing wrong with my room (Concrete floors). It’s easy to clean but hard on you feet if you have to shape more than one board. My friends at the LOST shaping bays have wooden floors with carpet. One shaper there shapes barefoot. I may add a wooden floor and carpet (With a large vacuum hose conected to a 2hp dust collector) I will be able to keep the room clean. The way my room is now you would think it’s pretty hacker until I make my upgrades. I’d let you shape a few boards here, however my factory is in Costa Mesa which is a long haul for you coming from Wine Country.
Maybe you can use Casey’s room that he set up at ELMO’s building in Santa Paula?
Casey recently moved his operation to Costa Mesa as well. There are lot’s of shaping bays available in the area as well as good glass shops.
Wayne has a new room and some high rent as well so I don’t know what his situation would be? It could be cool to have a shaping bay at home with all the trick stuff.
Good luck wherever you end up!
I like big shaping rooms too…I had 2 shaping bays at The Surfing Underground (one for myself and one for Bob Krause). Both were 10’x20’ and high walls up to about a 16’ ceiling. Our racks were adjustable too as I had to be able to shape menehune or kneeboards all the way thru Pan Am sailboards that were running 13’2"(and everthing in between). Brewer borrowed my room one week end and told me he really liked the set up. These were concrete floors which obviously are easy to blow down periodically but hard on your feet. I’ve also had carpet but preferred to shape barefoot in carpeted rooms so I can do the shaper’s shuffle.
I also had a wood/ply shaping room I built on an avocado ranch I lived on that was a couple canyons over from Tommy (Curren). We had 60 acreas of guacamole and a lot of privacy high atop a ridge that looked down to Naples and El Capitan and out to the islands…loved that place!
My deal was to fix the place up and maintain things in return for free rent(!). The place was owned by a multi-multi rich guy that was a friend of my wife and I and he had too many properties to even remember. It was a great rustic old house with a loft and huge deck and a 60’x15’ black bottom lap pool (chest deep).
I made a shaping room and small glassing bay that was raised with wood floors and used cheapie box fans to push air along the deck and drop t the floor on one end…it was economical and worked so well I didn’t even need a particle mask in the room! It was a raised structure so if the building department flew over and took aerial shots and decided to come visit me to hassle for permits, I would show them it was built as a “trailer”…had a friend help me on this so it actually qualified as a trailer and skirted the issue…never did get pinched on it though. It was so convenient too because I would just broom down the foam buildup when I was doing a lot of roughing out and I had a flip up door in the floor with a plastic liner bag below…so sweep right down the chute, pull the bag out and throw it in the trash.
It really fit with my whole Surfing Underground personna, ya know? I can probably just throw my room together this week to start off then dial things in more later…or, and I don’t know why I didn’t think of it but I’ll probably just call Lauren or Rennie and see if I can get in there…thanks for your offer, but I don’t want to drive that far…I’m sure you can relate.
Got it…and the number…best time???
Special Note: I went ahead and built a room and for the first time ever painted the room blue instead of black…always had black rooms. I’m still doing little tweaks for where a tool hangs best, etc. but once you get usd to your ‘pod’ it feels like a perfectly broken in shoe.
Happy New Year.