The Neck Beard 5,11, quad fin placement

General Discussion
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Hey guys, I'm new here and also in the shaping room. Right now I'm shaping the Neck Beard. It's 5,11 but I need your help with the fin placement. Anyone knows anything about this? Would be very thankful if you would help me out with the dimensions. Shoots and shakas!

2

Can you share the outline and some dimensions please? I’m about to shape a board similar to NB. Thanks!

3

5’11" for a neck beard? How big are you? If you arn’t like 6’2" 200lbs and a stone cold shreader you might want to scale that board down. All that straight outline and rocker make that board a b**** to turn. great for airs but I never saw anyone less than a pro be able to do a decent turn on one.

As far as fin placement on them, it never looked that far off the standard quad set up, it wasn’t like a McKee or anything like that.

4

I’m 6’3", anyways. I used the shape program called Akua Shapers, downloaded a high resolution picture of the board and then I made the outline over the picture. It worked pretty good! No one that knows the dimensions for the neck beard fin placements? 

5

Most people here make their own boards and are a little reluctant to blalantly copy someone elses work. I guess most shapers here don’t have a neck beard nor a Channel Island surfboards neck beard model. However, you can make pretty good guesswork of the fin placement from the bottom pics here providing you know the length of the box if you are dead set on copying that board. To me the board looks alot like lost sub scorcher/rocket, firewire hellfire/spitfire, and a number of other similar boards, maybe with a slightly more pointy nose. Try to check the archive for similar board ie. small wave/modern fish quad fin placment, there should be a ton of info there.

6

from what Haavard said: take the bottom pic, put in Akua, the opening on those future fin boxes is 11.2cm or 4 3/8"

 

7

Put two fins in the front and two in the back, have you asked Dane for a hipster licence first though before you proceed?? 

8

How wide is the tail?  CI measurements for quads are dependent on board length and tail width.

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