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Photo By Photographer & Shaper Joe Johnston (For more awesome photos see joejohnstonphotography.com) So, you want to shape your own Mini Simmons surfboard? Awesome, you have come to the right place. The first thing I recommend is to get educated on the Mini Simmons design, the first place to start is with a book we put together to help you get started with Mini Simmons surfboard design. Next, if you want to dig into the Mini Simmons history and read John Elwell’s detailed study of the contributions Bob Simmons made Not satisfied and want to dig even deeper? Check out the book that inspired Bob Simmons hull design.
Want to skip straight to the design—let’s get started. You can either sketch the design out by hand or you can use some computer assisted software to come up with a sick mini simmons shape. To find out how to download and install the AKU software (Dude, it’s free!) And if you need a Mini Simmons template file to get you started just fill out the form below and we’ll send you a free AKU Mini Simmons template (we’ll send the AKU file via email and you can download and open with the AKU software).
Get A Template To Shape Your You Own Mini Simmons Surfboard Once you design your Mini Simmons template you need to grab a Mini Simmons surfboard blank, check our Another option is to send you design file to an AKU machine shop (find a ). This is a good way to do your first Mini Simmons if you have never shaped before. Basically you’ll just have to finish the rails and do some light sanding.
Ok, now that you have your template (or machined blank) we are ready to either finish the shape or get busy shaping. You might want to review our various on shaping before getting stated, they will give you a good base and help you fine tune your new shape. Here are some of the top posts:. We got all kinds of resources on this site to help you shape an awesome Mini Simmons. Click around but here are a few to help you get stated:. We understand ho important fins are on the Mini Simmons so we also put together fin resources for you:.
Once you get the shape done and you are ready to choose and place your fins please see our. Don’t miss our six minute instructional video on the absolute right way to. Now that your shape is ready to be glassed you can read about our recommended. Please send us a picture of your board once you have completed it or to share your inspiration and experience with other Mini Simmons Shapers. Sierra vista baptist church sierra vista az.
The following is the MSS board template that we will send you for free when you fill out the form below. Oh, and are you still doubting if you’d like one of these boards? Well, just check out a few of this surfing posts, you’ll change your mind for sure:. more surfing video.
Before you shoot me!!!!! I have spent the last 3 nights trawling the internet and swaylocks for surfboard templates and come up with naught but a handfull. Theres heaps of info on how good it would be to have a template resource (there is one for keels) but thats it.
I'm happy to set up a website that could be used for sharing board and fin template files. Its my opinion, after shaping a couple of boards, that just saying a board is a Frye Fish does not make you Skip Frye and am not expecting commercial shapers to have to give away any secrets (although they can if they want).
I have drawn my templates in Autocad, but happy to have any type of files. Files would preferably be accompanied by a photo/image of the finished product and text file of all the relevant details. Ill post an email and website address depending on the response I get. I hope this kinda post is allowed under forum rules. Swaylocks for Ever -Peet.
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I think this would be valuable to us beginners, and I don't see why it's criminal to use a template someone else has offered up as a resource. Of course you can build a crap board with a great template if you don't know what you're doing, but you can't build a great board with a crap one. Additionally, it's tough to learn to create workable templates without seeing others. If folks were interested in sharing some, I think that would be helpful to folks.
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It's also worth mentioning that some are available in the pdf of the surfboard construction book that's here on swaylocks. Although, not everyone might be too interested in the transitional shapes that are in there (of course, I sure am!). Don't be such a jerkoff.
Notice in the original post how he said this was a resource more for backyarders (who should be sharing tempates with each other) but he would gladly post pro templates if they were given to him. You are always so negative. If you have nothing valuable to contribute, then don't. No need to mouth off to a guy attempting to create something very valuable for the rest of the Swaylocks community.
Yoga. I, for one, am all for the idea of a template resource section or site. Everyone has to start somewhere, and templates is only a small part of the equation. Don't listen to the naysayers.
As I prepare to work on Board #0003 this summer, this subject is near and dear to my heart. I made templates 1 and 2 with a combination of the Thrailkill method and watching JC's Shaping 101. In both cases though I had lots of images of finished boards and my own purchased boards to keep me on track.
The biggest headache I had was a good flexible material to 'connect the dots'. I think an archive of templates would be great so long as they are submitted by the creator, and people use them just as guides. If you just print it out and trace it on a blank you won't learn anything. One of the best tips I found on Swaylocks was to trace out your paper template in chalk on your driveway to make sure it is what you want before proceeding. PS - I was in Linden's shop last night to check out his new quad board and I was drooling looking at all the templates laying around!!!
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I've copied numerous Templates from boards other people and myself have rated. Not only do I copy the outline template, I copy the rocker too with a special instrument I made just for that job. A good spread of templates makes it easier to find curves when tweeking an old design or dreaming up a new one and although it is very difficult to exactly copy a board, if you use an outline template and a rocker template you will get a board that will surf something like the original. How many times do you get requests from people to make a board like the one you made for so and so or like that JS my mate has got. Maybe I am ripping off someone else's idea but they more than likely took on anothers idea in there turn. I'm all for a template resource.
If I can get it together I'll post some of mine.
Meant as an add-on to the wealth of technical resources available on the shapers forums, like or the French, this website intends to be an online sharing repository for the surfboard templates, which allow printing the paper templates that will be used to create a surfboard. It also features advanced search criteria, allowing you to easily browse the surboard category you are looking for. You may ask yourself the reason for such a repository. Fact is that the vast majority of the shapers that use these templates are “amateur” shapers, and as such not necessarily aware of each and every design hint that would allow them to develop their dream board. Therefore, offering them the expertise and know-how of the more capable ones would enable a kind of democratization for amateur shaping, in that it opens up to people that would not have necessarily taken the plunge without such a support. This website, on which everyone is free to submit his/her works, doesn’t aim at any other thing than mutual aid, the more skilled shapers helping the inexperienced ones. All in all, much like a shapers forum.