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ABE ***: Hi. Welcome to Expert Village, my name is Abe ***. I'm going to take you through
step by step to shape yourself a complete surfboard. Well, it's a good idea to already
have your tail shaped in. I'm going to go ahead and do that right now. At this point,
I usually like to cut the overhead light and let these side lights do all the work. It
really lets you see these hard angles that you need to pay attention to in shaping the
board. I have a series of tail templates. This is just going to get your basic rounded
and square tail. There's a variety of tails you can use, rounded pins, swallow tails,
though each have a different feel to them and different tendency. Rounded pintails and
pintails are generally for hollower waves. Rounded square tails are kind of all around.
They're good for all different types of waves, and they're a little bit looser in the smaller
surf. Widths of the tails are definitely determined how loose a board is or they can determine
how loose the board is. Generally, the narrower the tail, the stiffer the board. Generally,
you can cut this off, save yourself a little shear forming. That's fine too. You go get
yourself a little mini-saw. I'm just. Whenever you start blending in these lines, you gotta
really look down the line to make sure that you don't want to start up here if you're
shaping down here. So you start at these highest points first. Usually, it works good pulling
off the ends of the boards rather than pulling into the board. Now, we got our tail shaped
out the way we want it. We can get back to these rails.