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| 153562 | 6778 | Shaper thread (show us what you are shaping) | 5 | rootdown | Jul 31, 2019 | 2019-07-31T11:23:41-0400 | JBorbone said: @rootdown lets see that bonzer again! Maybe some shots of the tail concaves? Something important to keep in mind with bonzer (or honestly any board for that matter) fin placement... it's not a standard rule/metric across all boards of the same design. Tail width, amount of rocker, amount of V, and style of riding you want to evoke all reallllllllly really matter. Many times, those "vets" on Sways will tell you it's black and white.. but from a scientific perspective it's not. Like adding/moving/removing a dorsal wing to an airplane. "call me crazy" but recently I've been doing 0 degrees of toe on my bonzers, and only 18 degrees of cant. more drive, and for east coast hollow waves that you'd want to ride a bonzer in, isn't that all you really care about? I'm not selling bonzers to Alex Knost to do vertical turns on in perfect Mexican pointbreaks, I'm selling to weekend warriors on the east coast.. try to post a picture with it under your shadow-boxes so that we can see how far off the rails your channels start/end. Click to expand... thanks for the input. you dont find it too stiff with all that fin base going strait ahead? I dont normally ride hollow beach breaks and tend to surf our reefs that require multiple cutbacks to stay in the pocket. and i love the way the bonzer feels on a cutback. but Id like this to work on an average Rhode Island day. its almost 3 inches thick and dont plan on going super thin on the rails. I am keeping the tail rocker fairly low, about 2 1/4 at the stringer and the concaves arent that deep, probably under a 1/4" by the fins, and plenty of V off the tail. I'll take a photo later. |