Hi all, Just wanted to get peoples opinions on who is on the ball when it comes to shaping Quads on or near the Gold Coast. Am currently riding a Feral Dave performance quad and wanted some other options. Was on Simon Andersons site the other day and he was saying that what Stretch and Nathan Fletcher are doing is leading the pack in quad design and that where the thruster fin placement is fairly standard, the quad placement is all over the place. So, who shapes a good quad?
With this set up you can use it as either a twinzer or "quartet" Deep double concaves or channels with a lot of vee down the guts will help control the skittishness if your board has a bit of width through the tail too.
With this set up you can use it as either a twinzer or "quartet" Deep double concaves or channels with a lot of vee down the guts will help control the skittishness if your board has a bit of width through the tail too.
McKee is the Godfather of the modern quad. I was working with FCS when the quad came back to play. We handed out Bruces fin direction and position graphics and pretty much every shaping bay in Australia had them on the wall.
His concept is not having two sets of sides but more splitting the centre fin in half, the rear fins have 1/2 as much toe in and cant as the fronts and sit about 1/2 way from the centre to the normal fin position.
I speak with Bruce regularly, if anyone wants to contact him let me know.
Murray and DMS as above use the McKee set quad set up. I took Mr 3 and Mr 4 to lunch once, that was an interesting one for me.
This has been great. The Bruce Mckee website is really interesting. I was actually thinking of Jack Knight to shape a quad but this has given me a lot more to think about. Cheers
Been riding 7'9" this one for 4 years, have not ridden anything but a 4 fin in that time, this guy Kirk Bierke shapes good ones from 5'0" to 10'6", 4 fins go off in big boards
