Hi all! I have attached three photos of my seventh board. The dimensions are 6’1x19x2 3/4, made for 170lb. rider to be ridden at his local beachbreak.
bottom is single to doubleconcave. It has a straight vee starting at the bump and the doublecon goes thru all the way out the tail.
When I look at the foil pic it looks like it has a quite flat tail or ???
I’d like to hear some comments.
Oh, and the guy in the pics is my younger brother,thanks to him!
Thanks in advance,Jimmy Yoshio Shibata.
Pictures maybe worth a thousand words, but they can also be deceving. Looks like some kick in the tail to me. Taylor.
Rocker looks pretty flat to me (front and rear) from the first pic, but it could be the pic. What does it measure as?
Or, it would help to have a higher resolution shot of the first pic (rocker/foil pic).
I laid an index card on the screen there’s discernable tail lift… ambrose…
I didn’t measure the rocker while building, I just eyed it and stopped where I felt comfortable
with it, and I just thought when looking on the pic “hmm… it had more rocker…”
So it must be the pic. But I laid a card on the rocker like ambrose said and then the rocker became more obvious…yes it has quite a kick.
Jimmy.
Ambrose, thanks for the card thing…jimmy…
I use photo programs to measure the rocker based on board length.
Measured in this way, the front and rear rocker both came out very flat by standards around here. Rocker is difficult to eyeball and changes of 1/2 inch make a huge difference in rideability. That’s 1/2 inch over 3 feet, or 1.4% or so change in rocker. That’s why I asked if you had a better picture or an actual measurement of rocker.
And, I’d recommend when shaping that you plan the rocker ahead of time, shape it first, and measure it. Far more important to get the rocker right than the planshape or thickness/flow or rails (although any done poorly enough will sink the ship).
wow, sweet board man
the foil is really nice
perfect thickness in the nose and tail
I still remember my 7th board. It was a magic one though it looked a little bit unrefined. Now, 3000 boards ahead, I would like to advise you on some aspects:
1- Take as measures as possible while you are building a shaper’s felling.
2- Take care of the transitions (along the rocker, along the rails, etc)
3- Don’t start playing with many features at the same time. Try to begin with simple designs, and you can improve it step by step.
4- Ride your boards as soon as possible and in every condition avaliable. It helps to develop acuracy in shaping.
5- Remember, great artists started copying masterpieces, so, don’t be ashamed, it is the shortcut to success.
Good luck!
Thanks jeffshaper and blakestah for all your advice, will plan more on my rockers and measure them in the future.
Actually I wasn’t eyeing the rocker from the beginning, I used my homemade adjustable rocker template guide and adjusted it so it fit the curve of the unshaped blank(6’3 H clark) since I’ve heard they come with rockers that work.
Then when I was taking down the blank to desired thickness I put on the rockerguide after every adjustment in thickness, and if the curve didn’t fit I made some adjustments til it fit again. And after reaching thickness i made my “eyeing adjustments”
and when I think about it it’s important to measure so you’ll learn more about the whole thing about surfcrafts, well I guess that was what you we’re trying to tell me.
Big thanks, Jimmy Yoshio Shibata.