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    Plane Shaping: How To Make A Surfboard
    Plane Shaping: How To Make A Surfboard
    Plane Shaping: How To Make A Surfboard
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    Plane Shaping: How To Make A Surfboard

    By Robin Morris

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    This book describes in detail 'How To Make A Surfboard'. It covers all the pitfalls, secrets and tools required. Includes from basic shaping to laminating, sprays, sanding and finishing. In fact it covers everything. With this book you will make a surfboard that will make you proud...!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateMar 3, 2005
    ISBN9780620499231
    Plane Shaping: How To Make A Surfboard

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      Book preview

      Plane Shaping - Robin Morris

      Plane Shaping

      Robin Morris

      A comprehensive and in-depth guide to making a surfboard.

      All the tricks, shortcuts and secrets revealed.

      With this book you will make a surfboard to be proud of.

      Produced & Distributed By Assegai Publishing

      e-mail: southwestjbay@truewan.co.za

      PO Box 1588 Jeffreys Bay, 6330 South Africa

      All Copyrights Reserved.

      ISBN: 9780620499231

      First Printed In December 2003.

      Reproduction: Walker Ah Hing; Port Elizabeth

      Printing: PEB Port Elizabeth

      www.assegaipublishing.com

      With Thanks...

      To: Thys Strydom, shaper extraordinaire and his able team -

      Stephen van de Watt – the wizard spray artist ;

      Norman – the lamination man;

      Makriel – Mr Patience, for sanding and polishing;

      and Christo – who does a bit of everything.

      Thanx Guys!

      Someone we all knew...

      His name was Jimi and he lived in Electric Ladyland

      Usually Stone Free he enjoyed Castles Made Of Sand

      Met his Foxy Lady on the Rainbow Bridge with the Voodoo Child

      Covered in Purple Haze from the Spanish Castle Magic

      That dusted his Gypsy Eyes

      Who Knows he had a Machine Gun

      That let him stand next to the Fire...

      Jimi says it was The Burning Of The Midnight Lamp

      That flew him around The Third Stone From The Sun

      But only on a full moon when The Wind Cries Mary

      Can you still hear him whisper:

             "Hey Joe, fly on Little Wing...!"

      Contents

      One - Surfboards

      Two - Surfing

      Three - The Right Premises

      Four - Tools & Materials Required

      Five - Shape Up

      Six - Spraying

      Seven - Laminating & Sanding

      Eight - Dings

      - One -

      So you want to make a surfboard. Maybe you’ve surfed quite a lot already and know what it is that particularly works for you or maybe you’ve just started and decided to make your own board because it’s part of the stoke of surfing.

      Whatever, it doesn’t matter. The intention with this guide is to try and make sure you follow the right process and make yourself the best surfboard possible.

      Making surfboards is an art. Shapers are unique. Covered in foam dust all day, they emerge from their shaping bays with these incredibly flimsy shaped pieces of foam. Aerodynamic in every sense, each plug of foam is meticulously hand shaped into a missile of extreme beauty.

      All the secrets gained over years of honing their craft go into every board. Each curve and hollow is processed with deft care to ensure that every board produced excels in performance, completely in tune with the magic of the ocean and her timeless energy.

      Speed, stability, driving power-turns, its all there in the final shape. Not too much and not too little makes the difference. It’s a science gained through trial and error and every shaper will tell you his war stories of how he started out and what his first shapes looked like. How he burned his first shaped plug by mixing the resin too hot with the hardener when he glassed it and so on. The stories are legend.

      Well those guys never had this guide to follow when they started out like you have.  So, hopefully we can remove a lot of the stigma and secrecy attached to the manufacture of surfboards and provide you with a hands-on guide of what to do and how to do it.

      All the materials, all the tools you’ll need, da worx!

      If you give someone a set of brushes and some paints and ask them to paint a picture, they may not be able to create anything. It takes an artist, but if you give someone the tools and then also give them a ‘paint by numbers’ picture, it’s a lot easier. 

      Same analogy applies here.

      The process that follows is not necessarily the law. Shapers from all over the world do some of the steps differently. Will even argue and contend some points and probably provide sufficient support for alternative methods that work better. They’ll offer some valid shortcuts.

      That’s awesome...!

      The intention here isn’t to be contentious. This is not the bible of surfboard manufacture.

      For this guide, I was privileged to work with legendary Jeffreys Bay shaper, Thys Strydom. To-date Thys has made in excess of six thousand surfboards. He surfs regularly at the world renowned right hand reef break, ‘Super Tubes’ in Jeffreys Bay and still shapes and produces some of the finest surfboards the world has to offer from his factory – ‘The Surfboard Factory’.

      This is a state of the art full production factory situated in Jeffreys Bay. The factory overlooks an awesome right-hander called ‘Kitchen Windows’. The view alone has to be an inspiration for any shaper. Thys provided all the technical background to make this guide possible. A lot of the surfing information came from talking to the pros and from creditable surf magazines like ‘Zigzag’.

      To set the stage, surfboards come in all shapes

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