Hey everyone,
I was hoping to get some insight on how to improve my technique on my next board.
I had a nice symmetrical shape prior to trying to put the rails in. I don't exactly know what I did wrong but the rails ended up being very different from each other despite the "same" rail band markings (pics attached).
I have read most articles I could find on shaping and watched a number of videos online and it seemed straight forward (measure the same bands on both sides, connect the dots and surefoam at roughly the same angle on either side until it looks similiar). I have two major questions
1) When you mark your rail bands and are removing foam between the two points do you just have an angle in your mind. How do you know when to stop with the sure foam (or planer). I guess hypothetically its just when there is a nice flat band?
2) If your rails end up being asymmetric is there any way to fix that after the fact? I am now in a position where the right side has a different curve than the left and I am trying to come up with a reasonable way to salvage this beast.
3) I am surfing the great lakes in Canada and would like some input on the general shape I chose if anyone has opinions. I tried to make it really fat 6'2 23" 3" in order to keep it short enough to fit in our tiny waves which can pitch sometimes but volumous enough to get their limited power. Should I have widened the tail a bit? T
Thanks everyone, look forward to learning on this epic journey
Adam
