#AKU SHAPER FILES SURFBOARD FULL#

They start in my head as an idea of the board IвЂ™d like to create вЂ“ e.g. Designing the outline: So far all the boards IвЂ™ve built have been unique, one-off shapes. Feel free to cherry-pick any bits that you find useful.ДЎ. What IвЂ™m going to detail here is my process for creating a template.

These days itвЂ™s much more likely that the design process starts on a computer screen and in many cases it doesnвЂ™t venture beyond the digital realm until the machine-shaped blank is ready for cleaning up.Д«ut thatвЂ™s not what IвЂ™m going to talk about here. In the вЂњolden daysвЂќ before the advent of computer aided design, shapers relied on some more analogue methods for creating their templates вЂ“ bending and tracing flexible batons into aesthetically pleasing curves, combining existing templates to form new shapes, and others that I wonвЂ™t go into detail about here. This is laid onto the blank down the centre and traced, then flipped and repeated on the other side to ensure symmetry (if thatвЂ™s what the shaper is aiming for).

#AKU SHAPER FILES SURFBOARD FULL#

Your basic template is a full length rendering of the boardвЂ™s outline, divided in half lengthwise. The proven vehicle for this stage of the process is the Template. Most beginner shapers have a reasonably good idea of the board they want to shape, but arenвЂ™t always confident about getting the shape from their head and onto the blank.

Every shaper has their own unique process for building a board вЂ“ from developing the concept of a board in their imagination, to getting it shaped, wrapped in fibreglass and onto the wave.

There are almost as many methods for shaping surfboards as there are shapers.

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