rails and broken boards

General Discussion
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so i have two questions that just sprung in to my head.

 

  1. are sharper rails on an alaia with no rocker better? (it has good flex though)

 

  1. i was reading all about mini simmons boards and they look like longboards cut in half. could you take a broken longboard deck and just pul off the glass and reshape the broken part into a square tail? 
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  1. Don’t know.

  2. Why not? But you’ll have to shape more than just the tail.

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i was thinking about that after i posted lol. but you have the perfect blank if you snap a longboard 2/3 of the way down. but if you say the idea is sound i might try it out one day.

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Hey GDog,

I don’t know anything about alaias, but for the mini Simmons, they are usually really thick under the chest(3" or so). Right at the crown of the S-deck. You might not be able to get that out of a standard long board front, but if you got one of the boards made for especially for a heavy rider, you would have a lot more foam to work with. Some of the shapers in San Diego are known for making big guy boards, like ACE, or Blair; Infinity Secret Weapon might work also.

My friend broke a longboard paddling out one time. The wave broke right on top of the tail, and snapped the board right at the beginning of the fin box. That one would have been perfect. 

Sounds like a fun recycle reuse project. Build thread? When you get around to it.

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along these lines, check out this video (can't seem to embed - how do others do it?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIZOk4eAeHE

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Inside every longboard there is a fish or mini Simmons....please check out the link...

http://www.swaylocks.com/resources/detail_page.cgi?ID=1172

 

 

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...and look close because inside that Recycled Shipman Fish is a Mini Plasket Creek Gun......

 

It's Orange and White...Do you see it ??????  It's unreal what Shipman was doing....

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thanks for posting that Ray - I looked through the photo archives at Shipman's work, and Wow, some awesome stuff!  I really relate to his shapes, wishin' I had one of each!  Is he still shaping boards?

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so the lesson i have learned here is that a broken board is never really a broken board, its just a new board in hiding. that is really cool :slight_smile: