{"database": "surfing", "table": "posts", "rows": [["135045", "4461", "Stoker V machine - Fowler or Anderson?", 37, "Bruce Fowler", "Aug 2, 2018", "2018-08-02T15:37:02-0400", "Mizrachi said: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n            It might not just be the color request that's not heeded.  Sightpoint and I ordered a pair of customs from Bruce a few years back and our dims were way off.  Board was fun af either way tho.\n        \n\n\nClick to expand...\n\n\n\n\nWhat do you consider \"way off\"?...... BF\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdded later:  I thought about this today, and at 66, I still have a pretty good memory. I have pix of your boards and to the best of my knowledge your \"customs\" fell into the category of \"standard dims & liters\" I offer for the Plain Jane aka  SVM's... I can print those up at some point & you will see the most popular models have optional dims within the same length of the boards. For instance the 6'6\"s can come 21.5\"x2.88\" but they also are available 21.65\"x2.75\" and so on.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI didn't want the boards to become total \"cookie cutters\".... as things evolved I offered them with \"Std.\" & \"Winter Foils\".... you could get them in Narrow, Std. Or Wide versions which was a take off from what Dewey Weber offered with the original \"Performer\".  I even remember you could order Yater Spoons with with slight, regular or heavy step decks.  So I'm not saying you are wrong, but it is entirely possible you were referring to my \"being way off\" because you thought the size you ordered was going to be specific dims I had posted for a certain length and width like 21.5 and ended up with 21.65 or whatnot.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAt the end of the day, I want people to understand, that if someone orders a VERY specific CUSTOM from me, that I don't detour from that once we have discussed and made the order.  And I will tell you if a certain width is right or not right for the design you desire.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI have a long respected reputation for being able to faithfully dupe someone's magic surfboard that, for some reason, they cannot get the original shaper to shape another for them.  Perhaps the shaper quit shaping, or worse, the shaper has passed on. To be able to do these requests, you need to be able to park your ego at the door and become a human replicating machine making no value judgements on what the original designer intended. When Renny has been approached for such requests during the 80's, he told them to go down the street to me.  That's a pretty nice nod coming from the man himself. He also trusted my brother to airbrush all their boards in my factory when they lacked the set up to do them in house. Hynson was working out of Yater's for a time, and he had us paint the ibig outrigger stringers on his Red Fins versus them having the weight (& expense) of real lumber."]], "columns": ["post_id", "thread_id", "thread_title", "post_number", "author_username", "post_date", "post_date_iso", "post_body"], "primary_keys": ["post_id"], "primary_key_values": ["135045"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.612899999396177, "license": "Public Domain"}