Whoever wrote it uses terms like “DIY” and “shape your own”…funny cause he isn’t doing anything himself(no shaping, glassing, sanding, fins, etc.). it makes doing all the steps and surfing a board you actually “did it yourself” fell even better.
Thanks to Swaylocks and the awesome craftsman out there willing to help a beginner builder like myself, the art of really making a board to ride, enjoy, and share the stoke is alive and well! I’m on board number 3 , just built my shaping room,and got 3 little boys checkin out what Dad is doin! Thanks guys!!!
Whoever wrote it uses terms like "DIY" and "shape your own"...funny cause he isn't doing anything himself(no shaping, glassing, sanding, fins, etc.). it makes doing all the steps and surfing a board you actually "did it yourself" fell even better.
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Do it yourself?
Sit down with one of the top computers shapers....design a board....get a free blank and a free machine cut....final sand it with Rusty himself and send it off to the glasser.....
not "Do it yourself"......and it still cost the guy the same as a board off of the rack....
and no Shapeware adds!
........and....Do you really think Rusty would let me or you put his logo on our "first time board".....no way!!!
F'n ridiculous!!! How can anybody consider this as "shaping your own board"? I understand shaping machines are a necessary part of the industry, but they should be reserved for the pros that have the demand for them, not for some newbie that just wants to make it easier on himself. Any artist is able to sell prints of their famous works, and they deserve that after a years of dedication and practice at a skill. This is the last guy that should be allowed to use a machine and to claim he "Shaped It". Buy a real blank and learn like the rest of us! at least then you can have some pride knowing that you actually shaped a working board from a crude canvas. If you weren't a total ass and didn't keep comparing the board to "backyarders" than maybe one of these "backyarders" would let you in their room and you could actually see what shaping a board is all about.
I guess this is part 3 in the series of “backyard shaping”. I’m not quite sure where the “backyard” comes into play because for all I know he ditched the newspaper and shaped it while taking his morning dump
I feel he should be praising backyard shapers for being able to do it without a machine and their willingness to stray from the norm? I realize there are some untalented backyarders out there that turn out less than perfect boards, and that's why we all don't build our own boards. But I respect the hell out of that man for trying and inspiring me to do the same.
There's nothing Backyard about Rusty, Shaping machines, or professional glass shops... Horrible job on the title of this article.
(shrugs) The guy’s “design” got a B- from Rusty hisself. Even accounting for grade inflation that’s not at all bad for the guy’s first time at bat. The point remains that a rookier “user” can exercise more control over their design inputs and avoid some of the accidents that backyarders (like me) commonly make when trying to learn to do it all by hand.
It’s obviously not for everyone and a CAD user isn’t developing any skills to do it all by hand but at this stage of the game that really only becomes the big liability if/when they do to do something that’s beyond the capabilities of the machine.
I don't usually weigh-in on most of the subject on Sways...mostly just act the sponge. But this time I will. I just read that article today and thought the same thing. What a joke! Like everyone else I undertand the place and value of shaping machines. But this article is incredibly misleading.
I am a pretty novice builder. I've shaped and glassed around 40 boards. Each board I made for myself (about half) I took a huge amout of pride in because I made it BY HAND, BY MYSELF. My first board was less than magic, but ya now what? As you all know, there is such an awesome fealing paddling into that first wave on a board you made 100% by hand.
I feel almost bad for this poor guy. Shape it, glass it. It will float and surf. You will be stoked.
As for the magazines...don't bother. They should be paying US to read them. They're crap. Except Surfers Journal. I still dig the Journal...
i am going to have to disagree with the herd on this one - i think its cool. lets face it, a lot of people do not have the skills to shape themselves a decent board. this gives them an opportunity to at least design it themselves and who knows, maybe they can dial in their perfect board this way. it ties them to their surfcraft. maybe not as much as if they did the work themselves but they still have time and thought invested in it. if it doesnt work for them, they have no one to blame but themselves (cant scapegoat the local shaper). local craftsmen still do all the work. everybody wins.
indirect suggestive marketing…I see too many of these on swaylocks…Or maybe every where,Imagine Just how many people whent and got him self a VAC system and all other consumables thanks to sway, How many drums of epoxy sold thanks to sway. How many back yarders using the Machine cuts thanks to sway, How many Skills sold thanks to sway…Just how eazy it is to make a suggestion in your post that will lead to a marketing strategy…
seriously, I bought all three surf publications this month. I read the first one, and the other two had the same ads and similar articles.... Then I saw this month's Surfer's Journal!!! Every article spoke to me and I couldn't put it down!!! Ryan Burch, Redman, and kneeboarders blasting airs... along with minimal ads and beautiful photography.... Take the cover price of those other 3 and buy the Journal, you'll have a good month's worth of toilet reading instead of flipping through a whole magazine to find one point of interest.
^ yeah don’t know how mags became the topic of discussion.
What I don’t understand, is why anyone would bother with that whole process. For $500, you could buy yourself either enough supplies to make 2 or 3 boards, or 4 or 5 blanks and enough glassing supplies to glass whichever one comes out the best. In the article it cites "expensive tools’ as the reason to use that tech instead of by hand… but you can make a useable board with a 50$ planer, a surform, and some sanding blocks. How is that more expensive than paying other people to do every step of the process for you?