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My post was tongue in cheek, duh Roy and Kayu.

Scary isn't it! Nah, the china thing is a finite resource and the surfboard manufacturer of the future will have a his printer out the back, along with a massive investment in new tech. He will ask if you want a set of boards with similar specs to suit 2' -3' - 4' - 6' waves. The same basic board ta...

Current technology with blank suppliers blowing shapes and shapers uploading designs on to a CNC cutting machine will eventually disappear. The printed blank of the future will be 100% accurate to the designers plan, in fact the whole board will be printed with rails, fins, leggy plug, rocker, plan ...

Well, they'd best get rid of the AKU machines then. Replication of proven shapes is what is making surfboards better, as is the ability to adjust any aspect of a blank before its made. Almost all shapers now use computerised design tools. The shape of the wave is irrelevant to this argument, its abo...

Actually I'm with Roy on this, there is no way a hand shaped fin will be as accurate as a computer generated and printed shape. Even more so if you have to make two side fins, identical but mirrored, and then a centre fin to match foiled evenly both sides. Also, current designs can be scanned and co...

so far so good.

Aren't all cars foreign? I mean, even Holden is gone and it was GMH (yanks) anyway. Oh yeah, my board are all full of faults, but who cares? I really don't surf well enough to feel the difference if there is a 'dip' in the rail or the "tucked under edge is too far back", or "the fins look too far fo...

I once mounted the misses on the front seat of my HR ute, not sure she'd fit on the dashboard though.

The good old mongrel dog...not. It didn't quite work in the way I expected, for numerous reasons. It fell out of the board rack and karate chopped the back of my wife's Peugeot. Then, a few days later it did the same to my Alfa Romeo, WTF! Anyway, I finaly got it into the water and had a surf on it....

How you traveling Packa?

dunno mate, im still in the Maldives till Monday

nah, im at a high school. I drew my own version of a standard finbox, hollow sides for light weight etc. I can draw anything with several cAd programs, if there is something you need, pm me. Havnt heard of the product, but we have a big selection of colours and types, fluro and glo in the dark too!

Hi all, yeah im os at the moment. ill be back Monday if anyone is still in town.

Hey sanded, you should note that there are few plastics available for 3d printing that are UV stabilized, be careful what you use. I have been using fin boxes and plugs for a while, which I draw myself. there are also heaps of surf related products on 'thingyverse'

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Don't recon those wax scrapers will work too good, all my boards have convex decks.

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