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Morning ❤, love your video ❤

Not a fan of that technique.

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Gday Mate, interesting post. You have it back the front as in, wait up, the small fin is my design. I did it about a year before Cheyne and Ben, documented ie registered design. Multifin from Byron did it first in 84', I did it soon after the yacht race, it's a story how it happened from a beer drinking comp in Bali, anyway, we sold 10k in the first 3 months and as board's tails got too thin for boxes, it faded. Come mid 90's, my mates I grew up with had started FCS and we went again. Bill McCausland saying in print recently, that is the most under rated fin in the history of surfing. Ok so when they brought out FCS 2 it got left out, new management and bla bla bla, so I found Dylan in Bali making them and that was before covid, he was giving me a royalty in fins. I have one of Dylans, one redtip in my board and a mint one in the box, which has a bit of the story on the back. I am wanting to get them made again. When and where did you get the one in Indo? Cheers, would rather work with you, John Harris.

Flat deck all the way - early 90s had some really good/ not over designed boards which were simple and worked for all levels of surfers. Reckon any board builder who "went back " to boards of this style would find the older surfers would come running and new surfers would learn something that it clearly obvious. Good vids mate.

Great to watch buddy. I hope you really enjoyed your stay in Scandinavia. Welcome back any time.

I hope you had a great vacation i the north of the planet!😀👍🇸🇪🇦🇺

my ghost shaper is a 5 axis cnc router. it always shows up to work on time, is precise to the hair's width and does the work of 4 shapers.

How to ghost shapers get paid? By the board? By the day? Bonuses or flat rate?

At least around where i am, almost any big name boards you find in the shops are made by licensed 3rd parties but they dont hide it from the consumer. There are pyzels that have laminated logos saying they were made in peru.

A stencil for a signature 😂😂😂

When I die I want to come back as a ghost shaper.

Oh sorry didn’t look at all the other guys giving you shit.

It’s backwards in the box

wet sand makes sense for leaving a nice finish, but why not use a solvent like acetone to strip the paint?

gday craig i would love to see a video on what respirators u wear when shaping. Not sure what the right one is to get. cheers!

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So called star fin makes NO sense on a surfboard. They are.designed for creating lift on the keel of a boat, which travels differently in the water than a surfboard. I had them on two boards back in the day, and they create drag, not lift. When returning to standard fins, it was like night and day. It was pure marketing hype, and cheyne horan was never a bright spark.

Thanks dude!! Incredible review and vibes with no bs❤

We called those monkey or gorilla suits in the early 2000s. Used to be great for skim boarding. I like the better sun protection though compared to a normal all shorty spring suit. Thanks for the detailed review 🤙🤙🤙

I had one but sold it. One issue was the thin winglets nearly gutted me during a closeout because they are quite sharp. Second, there isn't any guidance about the angle to have it installed. You usually need to pack a fin and minor adjustments will lean the fin forward or backward and change the attack angle of the wings. Didn't know the angle to set it.

Does it scratch the board by any mean ?

💔 We were so lucky to have him.

Mine just arrived same color .Im a builder and I made a Half Zap single 5'10" based on the Theories of Richo who taught me to shape in the 80's when he came to Malibu for a contest . Piping Hot wetsuits dropped him off at our doorstep.We been friends ever since .In 86 he shaped 200 boards in one summer for Zuma Jays with a flipping sureform .Channel bottom and squashes .All of them sold within a year . My Zap is almost done sprayed in Evel Kenevel's stars and stripes .I can't wait . Also I have 2 of those 3d fins from FCS at my Hawaii factory .Super fun . Lastly .A friend just brought over Cheynes 6' 1" from 1982 his personal he brought around to the shops to show at of all places Zuma Jays in Malibu . Cheers dude !!!!!

You have the fin in your board back to front... Try it the other way around

Received this wetsuit today and its great

looks sick

just what i needed to hear ineed one of these i can no longer get out of my chest zip issues with my neck and shoulders

Sounds like a dream trip!

Is there different thicknesses of rice paper?

I have mixed feelings on this. I have a board that I somewhat screwed up and has a really flat deck near the front and a standard curved deck in the tail (my Home Depot bucket fish video). You make good points, the main counterpoint is the flat deck will most likely end up with much fatter rails. The curved deck allows for a lot narrow and sharper rails which give you more responsive control. With my fish it has the bulky fat rails in front which are great for the added foam and getting into waves, but once you are planing, then it’s the much thinner rails in the back of the board with the curved deck giving some really nice responsiveness. Maybe that’s the future, a flat forward half with a curved rear deck. Or more likely I just got lucky with my mistake.

Really love this channel,getting back to basics.A bloke in his shed making things he is passionate about.Can't wait to have a go myself and learn the differences in board design and how they effect the ride.Thanks for sharing! Hope the shoulder heals soon.

I know that view. Except the one I use has a blue side wall. 🤙

Cheers Braddah kine! -nick from AkuShaper saw your other vid about machine versus hand shape, nice

"We don't make mistakes -- we just have happy accidents." -Bob Ross. I like the abstract and just running with it. When you use brush on acrylic paint, do you thin it out with water, or just use it straight from the bottle/tube? I have only ever used resin tints and water based spray paints, but interested in trying out some brushed on techniques.

I want to be a surfboard shaper!!!!!!

Like the perspective. I do most of my boards on a machine, but it’s a pretty low level machine so they still need a lot of work on the nose, tail, and rails. Totally agree everyone should start with a couple of hand shapes. Glassing is my favorite part and I’m much more accurate in CAD than I am with my hands for bulk foam removal 😅

Love the art involved; not just the pretty blue, but everything you described 😊

From 1988 to 2010 3000 boards later all hand shaped but as soon as a friend got a machine I never went back to hand just too much work verses 15 min clean up and boom glassing time ;)

YEWWWW

Interesting product. I’ve seen ice scrapers for car windshields with a similar design /concept. Guess the circle shape makes it more efficient since there’s no direction bias.

Cool video. I made my version of a Cheyne Horan's Starfin, puting a fcs2 base. It works really nice.

Since so many if the uninitiated are demanding volume, have you thought of building a displacement tank, maybe a joint building with other shapers. It wouldn't be hard, one way, 4 pieces of plexiglass(or Plywood): 2: 4'' wide, 2: 24'' wide. Each 7-8' tall depending on tall you longest boards would be. Glue together, reinforce with some lumber(to prevent bulging) and there you have it. You could rent out time to other shops.

I tried one numerous times on a 9Foot mal with little success. The fin kept getting snagged in the kelp and leash kept getting rapped around the fin. I noticed the board kept stalling every time I tried to catch a wave, as if the fin was causing the nose to stall just at the crucial last strokes. I’m sure having the right tail has heaps of difference in how the board performed.

It’s on backwards

Thanks for the follow up video. Didn’t realize people were experimenting with this back in the 80s. Send a couple of 3D printable models on thingiverse with similar design.

Then factor in different glass and resin weights and the litre amounts go out the window ;)

Cheyne also had a "loop" fin - like a circle.

What’s the story behind the fin with split winglets!?!?

Does it get bigger/faster or is that the standard surf size? I heard you say that’s the cruiser size. Been wanting to try a wave pool for the longest time.