the reasons why sways does not have a rocker catalogue

i mentioned this in an unrelated string,my apologies,there must be an obvious answer,please enlighten me…

Maybe because they got out of the blank business years ago…

Now they only make custom boards DIY style.

By "Sways";  Do you mean why doesn't everybody who posts on this site give up their own personal rocker dimensions?   The same ones that some guys have spent years perfecting?  I'm sure many have already done that. How about if you search the archives for those that have, catalog them  and post them up as a thread?  Seems easy enough.  Start with a key word search like "rocker",  "rocker dimensions"  etc. etc.

there was an assignment

for rocker dimensions

in order to make

 a big chart.

I fell asleep and woke up

too late to have it ready

in time to hand in.

then I had one ready

and willdog ate it.

My little brother

spilled hot cocoa

on  one.

I left one

on the bus.

I had one taken

from me by a bully.

…ambrose…

the most obvious reason

Is : I personally just make it up

by eye and feel …as I go along.

Look at the rocker

and think like

you are water.

Haha,

me too sir

me too…

hopefully i can explain why i ask

for now good nite

Grab some boards and measure them tourself taking note of the bottom contours. Don’t be so lazy and expect hand outs all the time. 

Because your first surfboard must be a dog. It’s tradition. Here boy.

 

You want rockers? We all do. Thanks to the generous French at ATUACORES you’re in luck. Merci. http://www.atuacores.com/surfshop/infos.php?lang=1&info=16

That 5’8 fish rocker is soooo sexy.

There is a catalog available with most of the best by some of the best and their variations.  Last published in 2006.  Not available on Sways.  Don't come to class without your home work.

Hey Gdog.

Didn’t I tell you…

I’m learning how to read a crowd…haha…

Hey guys… This Gdog guy should post up some pictures of all his past builds…That might silence a few  of  the negative sort…

Better yet, in keeping with spirits…You do the work and search Gdog’s past posts…

  His boards would put some of us to shame…

 As far as rockers go… Google any blank manufacturer such as US Blanks for example ,or the Atuacores above and modify to suit…It’s all out there, you just gotta dig a bit…

 I think this guy thought…What a fitting place to share such a wealth of free knowledge on such things…Hey…Start a rocker database, hummmm…

 

Where the hell has everyones sence of humour gone??

 Thanks Ambrose… Where’s Resinhead when you need him ?

Btw. I’ve been kitesurfing for 3 days straight… I’m too tired and happy to be all pissy here…So there…:wink:

Does swaylocks have shape (i.e. template, or fin layout) catalogs?  I was not aware of that - a lot about this site I haven't discovered yet, I guess, since I mainly just come to the discussion forum.  I only recently started perusing Quiver.  Guess I'll have to poke around a bit more.

What?!

A common database for the quick and free exchange of information among independent builders/designers?

Post a simple source link?  Everybody sharing openly and willingly?

Do this on Swaylocks without arrogance, hazing and evasive responses?

Both outrageous and insidious.

 

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i mentioned this in an unrelated string,my apologies,there must be an obvious answer,please enlighten me...

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"the reasons why sways does not have a rocker catalogue"

 

We don't need no stinking Catalog......

thanks for the advice insane,and welcome to sway’s

Dlock,that is tasty…got any more!

Mcding,can you point me in the right direction of that catalogue,is that blanks,i was looking for for finished boards with ride reports

cheers kitey,no need to hold my hand…

i agree huck,it needs to be more user friendly

YES… stoneburner,that would be the motherlode!

a place prospective customers could come for informed advice,read ride reports of shapes and rockers, choose a local shaper,or anyone else on here to put the right package together for them

the site should have easily accessable links on all the surf report websites,paid for by advertizing,or subscriptions…

otherwise some of us will be reduced to fixing these mass produced boards to make a living,which when you’ve been thrown out of your local shops,to make way for bigger profit margins,is gonna sting…

 

GDog from another thread.........

"kniterider,as far as secret rockers go, there isnt any,as soon as it goes out the doors it becomes common property,

most types of board in existance will pass thro' a shaper/fixer,swaylockians hands at some point

to document rocker,from the early days to now in millimetres,with accompanying reviews

would make a satisfying read for many a sad anarak

and to offer customers that choice,would undoubtably help the cause

you dont need to post your own haha"

Oh gosh...I'm GDog and I know nothing...I'm so humble...Please give me your rocker numbers because I'm too lazy to do an internet search......make sure the numbers are in millimetres so it will be easier for me to plug them onto my A.P.E file. And ....really...trust me...it's all for the common cause....and while you're at it can you "please" put all that information into an easy to read catalog....please...Thanks guys....I'll be ripping off all of your other ideas as soon as I can get some investors..............Thank you so much......and can you hurry up on those rocker numbers...please.....Trust me.....

ray, with the greatest respect for your concerns,unless you’ve had your head up your ass,

you will have noticed a change going on,

driven by big business,

it aint rocket science to see where this could end,

you really are holding on to the small change in your pocket,

whilst someone drives off in your car

with your missus!

 

without a prominent place on the internet to compete,and with sales from shops dropping(,with shop boys on cheap or free firewires etc and,on commison to sell a shop full)

in this technological age we could be reduced to word of mouth…

maybe in the past the mystique of secret rockers could drive your business,now i think a common understanding of rocker backed by as much information as possible,would give this industry a stronger chance of survival,

theres no need to share your own numbers,

there is a need to look at your competitors,and understand the difference

 

you might even find there using your numbers…

 

the basic question here is to reproduce

or not to reproduce … in greater

and greater numbers with predictable

results within closer and closer tollerances

to gaurantee a sales-pitchable result.

 

???there is a need to look at your competitors,and understand the difference

you might even find there using your numbers....???

 

 

They all work,these surfboards,within 

a narrowing spectrum of performance.

“Trust me You need to share your rockers”

bull shit pure and simple .They cant copy your licks

if you are changing keys faster than they can copy you.

 

???you might even find there using your numbers....???

-there is no industry...
never was an industry...
in this collective mind
of surfboard lovers.-
The jig makers,
the copists,,,
copping 'results'
before the fun of building magic
and spirit soul into an inanimate object 
was it self a goal............
this is what it is about.
!left brainers unite !
in scheduling time on the cnc
''''''NO !!! I HAVE THE PERFECT ROCKER!'''''
said the arguing tech elite
.....
"the rocker from the Smelly Krater
is irrefutably the best rocker!''
 Smirkoff tripple awards stand contest winning 
semi flatulent upcoming swell of 1999 ..
Sir Krater was quoted in the new york times
artickle september 2011 at long beach
new york that  the N-K 2000 was the exact
rocker that took the crown in 1999.
no there is no industry that anybody like 
bob brown is happy to give a board
to a kid at  blackies a board ,that he made,
because the kid is stoked.
rocker data base...?
born yesterday?
nope.
have a rocker stick?
nope.
gonna make more than one board at a time?
nope.
there is no need to share your own numbers?
YES.
there is a book
a coveted book
with the instructions 
to all the magic tricks.
all the guys that practice the tricks
are busy practicing and repeating 
and repeating and repeating
the same old tricks.
that ryan burch comment
"TOTAL SHAPING TIME 4 MINUTES"  
says it all.what it says  
The Surfing Industry   
makes it possible   
for jig makers to say  
"I Shaped This board."
more power to ya'll ...
And what ryan burchs comment says  
to me is the importance of going surfing
supercedes the perfect rocker,
rocker sticks,cnc machines,and  
military industrial complexities
driving a bussiness?  
holding onto small change in your pocket?  
intelectual property?  
if it looks like a scam to cop  
some residual soul
and it smells like it too  
maybe it's time to morn
the death of yet another 
magic/spirit building  
discipline in our evolving world.
...ambrose...
I may be a dinosaur
but I aint no raptor
eating young and
siblings alike.
driving off with my rusty 91 toyota truck
and my 63 missus with a sore foot on crutches? 
what to take her to physical therapy?  
good maybe I can go surfing.
the industry has little choice
but to take anti depressants.
and when the industrialists  
run out into the streets
unmedicated, to the greetings of 
outsourcing kajillionaires  
asking what funerary  should
be called ,and if cremation is an option.
 

thanks ambrose, i meant to say some of that…

 

 

 

my usual format

of stylized spacing

has not gelled on this 

previous post…

I am at a loss

to get it in space place.

If you wish to have me

email or pm the propper

spacing as I have written it

lemme know.I have a copy archived.

 

…ambrose…

You may not care but

in stream of concious writing

I believe the impact is erroded by the 

current spacing.