Good evening all,
Let me first go ahead and thank you in advance for sharing your hard earned knowledge. Im a back yarder and Im trying to put together my up-coming blank order from the US blanks catalogue. It will be the first time that I will order blanks with custom rocker and in particular a good blank from which to shape a good nose-rider at a length of 9'6. I was thinking of using the 10' 2" B Longboard blank.
The stock rocker in that blank is 4" 13/16 Nose rocker and 3" 13/16 Tail rocker. In my limited experience this is roughly the opposite of what you want a nose-rider rocker to be. I would like very little rocker through the nose / mid and accelerating into the tail , creating almost like a kick tail.
So, from my understanding if I reduce the nose rocker by roughly an inch and increase the tail rocker by the same I would have a decent starting point?
In the catalogue it gives the option of -1N / + (plus)1T ... Would this be a good idea? Am I on the right track or way off?
If there are any experienced longboard shapers out there who would have a minute to give me any advice/tips on this subject your time would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.