{"database": "surfing", "table": "posts", "rows": [["153635", "6778", "Shaper thread (show us what you are shaping)", 8, "Bruce Fowler", "Aug 1, 2019", "2019-08-01T15:48:21-0400", "The blank is milled from a file I have of a different model.  Actually I've used that same file as a base to make 12-15 different shapes. This blank had the volume allowing me to do the stinger/sting planshape and enough foam to handshape the needed deck & bottom rocker into this particular board.  We're in a 'hurry up offense' to make the board & get it to Mex to be tested in this swell hitting Monday.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFutures has been pretty reliable for me. Some grub screw stripping here n there with their boxes, but nothing outrageous.  Their extracting tool is handy to have & I think it costs about $10. I use FCS Fusion as an alternative, and they are reliable, lightweight & easy to install. I haven't used their X2 plugs in close to ten years - flawed design in my book.  Maybe I've been lucky with the single fins I've gotten from them. I buy a LOT of Greenough Fins from Chuck @ True Ames. I've known him forever.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStingers historically have the wing aka sting far up the board in more of the board's body.  You will find (that) the further you place a wing forward in a surfboard's outline, the shorter radius it can turn. Wings/Stings serve as a Pivot Point wherever they break/interrupt the Planshape/Outline.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis particular board has a Vee in the Nose followed with light single concave feeding into a double barrel concave. The deepest part of the Vee is placed forward closer to the Sting cuts then lessens in depth of Vee to a flat bottom at the tailblock.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhotos to come........ let's pray the swell materializes the way it has been forecasted!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFootnote:  Stings/Stingers were historically single fin boards. I have an extra long 15\" fin box going into this one 7\" up from the tail, allowing the center fins to be pushed well forward. The front of the box is 22\" up.  It has a 4+1 set up, so we can explore a variety of fin configurations. Aipa named his design, \"Sting\" not \"Stingers\"  -common misconception."]], "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": ["153635"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.6100299997342518, "license": "Public Domain"}