A "Thumb" for behind the boat

[Timmy!]

Wow, what a difference in water color between those 2 pictures! I will take the water in the second photo!

[jbort]

Nickypoo: pics looks pretty good to me.

[NICKYPOO]

Nickypoo: pics looks pretty good to me.

That is a horrible Jesus pic. Feet aren't together, eyes are open, just about to fall backwards. Not a bad 5 pic. Back foot is a little too far back to actually look cool. You can actually feel the breeze through your toes if you can get them out over the front of the board.

[jbort]

welll......I look fwd to "good" Jesus pic.

[Timmy!]

It looks like Liquid Force has a "nose rider":
http://www.liquidforce.com/wakesurfers-noserider.html

I just read on WW that Chase Hazen and Doum Legace are riding for them now??? Anyone ridden this?

Featuring a true longboard shape & style, the Nose-rider is ultra smooth… Whether you enjoy hanging ten or getting a bit more aggressive with your turns, this board will not disappoint. Show off in front of your friends and rip like a pro on the Nose-rider this summer.

Light Weight Hand-Finished Stringer Core
Faithfully re-creating Jimmy’s original master…Light and just right.

Full Nose Outline with Concave
Nose ride with control, lift and glide!

[Surfdad]

Tommy Czeschin, too!

I rode that once, NOT a noserider like I want. Fun'ish board though.

[Surfdad]

Speaking of this thumb, I got an update from Mike on the outline.

[Surfdad]

It's a little hard to describe if you've never worked with a shaping program. The light grey lines were the first iteration that Mike sent and then after some discussion, the more solid lines are the NEXT iteration. It's taking shape!

[Timmy!]

Lookin good! Looks like he widened the nose and tapered the tail on the second iteration? Am I reading that right?

[NICKYPOO]

Lookin good! Looks like he widened the nose and tapered the tail on the second iteration? Am I reading that right?

Yup. Funny, before I read surfdad's explanation, that's exactly what I was looking at thinking, "Yep, little more nose, little narrower in the tail..."

[NICKYPOO]

Surfdad, what is the reason for the placement of the dimension line at the tail and what does it signify? Are those rocker points or perhaps tunnel points?

[Surfdad]

Exactly Timmy! Nickypoo was on it, the shaping process using AKU Shaper is very visual. That blue line with the measurements at the top is just where the cursor was when Mike took the screen shot. You can run the cursor along the length of the outline in that screen and it will tell you the width at whatever the offset is. There are also a few other marks.

In AKU Shaper there are what are referred to as "slices". There is a separate part of the program that will show you the board as if you cut it horizontially at those marks. Those slices are used to determine the thickness of the board, the concave, rail shape etc.

The program then blends all of those attributes between the slices. So that wide slice sort of in front of center most likely is where the single concave is developed and Mike is probably doing work on the rails. The vertical mark not ALL the way back, but about a foot or so off the tail, is probably where the double concave starts or is fully developed.

What's cool, is that the shaper puts in those design elements and the program blends the change from the single to the double concaves or a soft rail to a sharp rail for him or her.

One word of caution is that CNC do NOT like too many fixed points, the less the better it is for the tool path, otherwise you get what I like to call the "jitters", the machine code becomes too abrupt and the output is not a nice smooth tool path.

[Timmy!]

Side track...Jeff, do you know if Mike has any of his new shapes available for sale? I saw a pic of some on FB and if they are available, I might order one in advance of my own build.

[Surfdad]

I don't think Mike has an inventory of them, but if you tell him which shape you're interested in, he'd be happy to make one for you.

I'm looking forward to your build, also!

[Surfdad]

Shaped, graphics on the deck and getting ready for glassing.