When I put my Clark foam planers up for sale (yes this is a blatant self promotion to try sell them) now I've got that out of the way where I was,
....My mate Ed said to me quite negativaly I thought at the time "you won't sell those planers, nobody here would even know how to use one"
..well he was right I wasted $14 on the add over 300 vews and one half querie?
Do Aussie shapers unlike our American friends just put up with using second rate tools to shape a board or has the evil machine so permeated our shaping culture that nobody needs to learn how to shape a blank properly with the best tools available anymore???
Or perhaps the industry is already dead here.
I'm sure this will get a few carpark legends going
Well i guess pweedas if you cant work out how to use the seebreeze email response to an add, how would you expect to use a planer?
Oh by the way I had a board for sale at the same time and the 16 year old who bought it managed to key in the correct phone number!
no clark foam to plane any more..
thats a good thing too, it realy wasnt a very good foam,
i lke the pointing in the eye thing you do there, how do you do that??
have a good sook mate. it's always someone else's fault isn't it?
here's an idea: try a dedicated surfing site instead of a windsports one, and maybe you'll get more shapers logging on to look at your ad...or you could keep whinging here.
hey thank for you reply stamp, not sooking just stating the obvious, read between the lines nobodys picking up the planer anymore, the hand skills are gone can you shape the thing you ride??? and make a living out of it??
is there a dedicated surfing site?
and whos fault? someone elses fault?? what you reffering too??
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I know what your saying man.
Only last month I paid $5 for an add in the local post office window to try to sell my jousting sticks.
I don't know how many people walked past that window, but not one enquiry.
Don't they realise $800 per stick is super-good value ?
or does nobody know how to joust anymore ?
Your first post is to sell, you admitted self promotion/advertising. Obviously you did not read the seabreeze guidelines!!!
If you had 100 or so post I could understand a little leniency.
However this is not the case and I believe your account should be deleted or thread locked or removed.
I have never shaped a surfboard.
I do know a bit about making stuff and getting curves right etc..... and I do know a legend shaper near me uses a garden variety planer.
So are they a necessity?
I would suggest you cast your net further than just seabreeze. Try gumtree, eBay, the quokka. Or if it was me I would just contact some shapers directly I can think of 3 that hand shape and I'm sure there's many many more around.
If you were after speed and precision to knock out the same board shape over and over.
If you were after speed and precision to knock out the same board shape over and over.
I'm a bit slow on the uptake sometimes, but it seems that...
- Clark planers are better than other planers cos they do the job faster...
- Machines that do the job faster than clark planers are evil...
the investment costs for a cnc wouldnt be cheap, the investment cost for the knowledge and experience in board shaping is priceless!!
