What shape for first board?

General Discussion
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I’ve been reading on here for a while and am looking to have a go at shaping. I want to shape a PU board first, is there any shape that might be easier for a first timer. The boards I’ve been considering is a longboard, fish or an egg, let me know your thoughts

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eggs are very forgiving for shaping.

i would start there.

herb

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i agree with the Herbster,,, go with an egg

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Longboards are a lot of real estate… prone to bumps and lumps.

Fish require a swallow to be cut, and while the bottoms can be simple flat-to-vees, the rails require special attention in order for them to work well.

An egg is a shorter, simpler curve to template, and the bottoms can be as simple or complex as you care to make them. Rockers are simple, too. Rails can be soft and round, down, modern… full, medium or thin… lots of options that will work well enough. They can be a very simple design that’s relatively easy to execute and still be functional.

Egg gets my vote.

 

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what kind of board do you ride the most ?  shape one of those .

http://youtu.be/-kLaYcp1A3w

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Cool, your first board!!

Single fin egg is best i guess?

make sure to kopy a router template for the single fin box from a swaylocker in the area

or better: make it with somebody experienced instead of f-ing it up yourselves completely [versus doing it yourselves completely, bad joke?]

Also, only use a straight wooden block, no surforms.

Flat to vee, round rails in the middle [maybe print templates on boardcad]

But to get physical help would be king?

Post pics

Wouter

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Thanks for your input guys, usual board is a quad fish but have just had someone shape me one of them so as I already have a old egg templated on paper so I might attempt that as a single fin (possibly glassed on)

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Take a look at the Stoker Vee thread.  I'm not saying try and copy one.  It is however a nice neutral shape that with a flat bottom, a basic foil and a single fin, would be a fairly easy first time project.  You can find a close tolerance hybrid blank, knock the corners off and sand it smooth and be good to go with most of them. A blank like THIS would yield an easy 7'10"-8' board with a minimum of work.

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Wouter why do you say not to use surforms?