Hey I am shaping a surfboard for my school project next year and I need someone as a mentor, preferably in Monmouth/Ocean county N.J. If anyone can help me out it would be a big help.
If, and I say if, you could get Mr.Carl “Tinker” West, of Atlantic Highlands to show you the way, one of the worlds most accurate shapers with planer and block plane only!
Would the Best Production Shaper with a Surform and
a whittling knife, … float
your boat.
oh oh is there a pissig contest forming or what…You are the best shaper that ever was avoid being corrupted by input it all comes from within everything else can lead to confusion and distraction…when the student is ready the teacher will appear ,soliciting a mentor is a dicy concept…roll seven ,eleven.then maybe snake eyes or box cars they call it craps for a reason…watch a tape sweep someone’s floor…mentor is a contemporary popular term is it losing its credibility?..you HAVE mentoring at swaylocks what more could you ask …go shape somthing and tour it arround for crits… ambrose… in the wee hours of the hawaiian morning going to eat another Mango
Hey thanks for the advice about Mr. West. Do you know how I would be able to get in contact with him and if not do you know any other shaper who could help me out? They don’t have to be experts, just someone who could guide my research.
read the forum archived threads. buy some videos. watch them. buy a surform. make a sanding block. buy some sandpaper of various grades, and a piece of shaping screen. and maybe a 3" plane. . forget the mentor. buy a crummy old, beat up, delaminated, piece of crap, $10.00, going to the garbage dump, board. strip the glass off it. then reshape it, using the same lines as the master who originally shaped it. then glass it. then sand it. then gloss it. (or spray it with krylon).
now you are thru elementary school. high school is calling. buy a clark reject blank. repeat as above. repeatedly.
there is no short cut. a mentor can show you what to do. but he can’t teach you how to do it. watch the video of jim phillips running his planer. when you have 40 years in, you can do it like that.
on the other hand it’s just a school project. you could always cheat and buy a CAD shaped blank and “smooth” it up. i mean, what the hell.
Guys I think the point is that the kid needs a “professional” mentor for the project. It is not so much that he does not have the drive to learn on his own, but many class projects like this require some kind of critique for evaluation…just a thought.
raven you may be right hey kid are you twelve or fourty the answers can be tailored to fit … ambrose… and matbe we can get scolastic credit for an honerary degree from your school…harvard?..yale? p.s.22?..ambrose…in a friendly upbeat tone