I'll have lots of time (and more money) to play around with in the future.Īnyway. So for now, I just want to shape something that will perform for me. The problem is (I guess it really isn't a problem, per se.) right now I'm a grad student with very little fundage to throw into my hobbies. I plan to shape many more boards, and try many different designs. After shaping just one board, I am fully hooked on shaping. I don't mean to be asking for you all to design a board for me, more just to throw out some numbers that have worked for other people so that I have a basis to work from. Even if it doesn't come out just as I plan, I'm sure it will work great in some set of conditions. Thats what makes shaping interesting to me, just that you can do whatever you want. I definitely understand your thoughts about finding my own numbers. Hopefully with your help I can create a killer fish my second go-around. So thank you all in advance for any thoughts. Sorry about the rambling post with lots of questions, but I'm really just looking for any insight into the subject. Wouldn't this mean that the rear 3 feet of the board are completely flat and the tangent at the midpoint is parallel to this flat, 3 foot section? Also, if I am interpreting this correctly, the rear 3 feet of the board has zero rocker. If I make it about 2.6 inches of rocker at 5'3", it looks much more natural to me. I just can't get a nice looking curve with 3.25 inches at the nose, and loosing only 0.25 inches of rocker in the first 2 inches of the board. The 3 1/4 of rocker at the nose makes sense, but the 3" at 63" (which is 5'3") seems like a bit much. I was trying to recreate this rocker in Aku Shaper just to get a visual of it, and it just isn't panning out. The little section on rocker has me a little bit confused.
#AKU SHAPER SET NOSE AND TAIL ROCKER PDF#
I was just taking a look at the pdf thats been floating around the boards here of the Steve Lis 5'5" fish. But how is this rocker distributed? Could anyone help me out with some rocker numbers at, say, one foot from nose and tail? I just want to get it right this time. So what do you think would be some good rocker numbers for this board? I have read many posts which mention numbers something like 3.5 inch nose rocker, and 1.5 or so inches of tail rocker. I am going to stick with the 5'10" length, go with a 21" width, and drop the thickness to about 2 5/8 inches. So I'm going to try another fish in a couple weeks here, and see if I can learn from my mistakes. I definitely learned a lot with this first shape, and I am really amped to take another stab at it.
And this nose rocker isn't just a flip in the nose, its pretty well distributed through the front half of the board. I have nearly 5 inches of nose rocker, and I have 2 inches of tail rocker. I was stuck with a 6'10" fish blank (US Blank, I believe) and I took most of the length from the tail, trying to be sure that I would have enough rocker in the nose. I knew that a fish needed minimal rocker, but I made a mistake right from the beginning. The problem is, I really botched the rocker. It's a 5'10" X 21.25 X 3 retro twin keel fish.
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