https://www.hangtimesurf.com/blog daily 0.75 2025-07-02 https://www.hangtimesurf.com/blog/foiling-multiple-stringers monthly 0.5 2025-07-02 https://www.hangtimesurf.com/blog/your-old-screens monthly 0.5 2025-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/15360a1b-9120-445f-a223-51ed7411d577/jones_shapes_surfboards_old_screen.jpg Tips for Shapers - Your Old Screens - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/fd282745-4236-4803-a82f-e02f9438c8cf/Jones_Shapes_Surfboards_Shaping_Tip_7_Finish_Nose_Tail+%2810%29.JPG Tips for Shapers - Your Old Screens - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/7898ec77-af81-4d38-85c4-b1ce4027e4fe/Jones_Shapes_Surfboards_Shaping_Tip_7_Finish_Nose_Tail+%2811%29.JPG Tips for Shapers - Your Old Screens - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hangtimesurf.com/blog/refining-the-deck monthly 0.5 2025-06-16 https://www.hangtimesurf.com/blog/block-plane monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/376499fe-f5ab-417c-a3ec-8e092cd448bb/Jones_Shapes_Surfboards_Shaping_Tip_Blockplane.gif Tips for Shapers - Block Planes - Make it stand out Bruce Jones, shaping a surfboard with a Stanley block plane. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/eb7a86bf-ac82-4225-8934-1edad4019515/Jones_Shapes_Surfboards_Brock_Jones_Blockplane.JPG Tips for Shapers - Block Planes - Make it stand out A railroad track free stringer should be possible for all of you with a sharp tool and the correct approach. https://www.hangtimesurf.com/blog/rail-banding monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/cc5ac0ab-25ac-4cd3-9bd5-ad33db9ab6f8/Jones_Shapes_Surfboards_Shaping_Tip_Rail_Banding_Animation.gif Tips for Shapers - Rail Banding - Make it stand out How my banding will commonly look on a soft-railed longboard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/73d8ada6-1be5-4572-aff0-83c4a03eb12f/Jones_Shapes_Surfboards_Shaping_Tip_Rail_Banding_Animation_deck.gif Tips for Shapers - Rail Banding - Make it stand out Banding the deck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/920314a6-832d-4bdf-a454-76e2473b6169/Jones_Shapes_Surfboards_Shaping_Tip_Railband_002.JPG Tips for Shapers - Rail Banding - Make it stand out Some typical roughed out banding on a classic longboard deck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/028a7e69-b119-4c2c-8615-100217bd44f7/Jones_Shapes_Surfboards_Shaping_Tip_Railband_001.JPG Tips for Shapers - Rail Banding - Make it stand out Banding rails on the deck of a fish with a flatter deck. https://www.hangtimesurf.com/blog/nose-concave monthly 0.5 2025-02-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/36c91b4d-e2e3-4e93-8fab-c7bc843b81dd/Jones_Shapes_Surfboards_Shaping_Nose_Concave+%285%29.JPG Tips for Shapers - Nose Concave - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/dd2ed247-3ba3-4888-98bb-5f7ac9f123b6/Jones_Shapes_Surfboards_Blogpost_Longboard_Nose_Concave.jpg Tips for Shapers - Nose Concave - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/ca89bb30-6306-43ef-b6f1-58829ab8aed6/Jones_Shapes_Surfboards_Shaping_Nose_Concave+%282%29.jpg Tips for Shapers - Nose Concave - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/3c30e08c-d1dc-4e1a-bcd6-10746f52f8e1/Jones_Shapes_Surfboards_Shaping_Nose_Concave+%281%29.jpg Tips for Shapers - Nose Concave - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/c7a33301-3d67-4390-86d1-42c8fad4d553/Jones_Shapes_Surfboards_Shaping_Nose_Concave+%287%29.JPG Tips for Shapers - Nose Concave - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/e587e73a-7e10-4ec8-a2e2-e4013e0468cd/Jones_Shapes_Surfboards_Shaping_Nose_Concave+%283%29.JPG Tips for Shapers - Nose Concave - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/75a32f7f-ec48-4e7a-9530-5e179e325a5e/Jones_Shapes_Surfboards_Shaping_Tips_blockplane.jpg Tips for Shapers - Nose Concave - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/22a175de-167a-471e-a934-cfcbf1e735f3/Jones_Shapes_Surfboards_Shaping_Nose_Concave+%286%29.jpg Tips for Shapers - Nose Concave - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hangtimesurf.com/blog/shape-scribeless monthly 0.5 2025-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/adb8231f-e2e7-4049-8084-4f2bc689eecb/Bruce_Jones_Shaping_Jones_Shapes_Rail_Apex.jpg Tips for Shapers - Shape Scribeless - Make it stand out Instead of using a scribe, use a square at the wide point to mark the rail apex as well as a buffer/nipple around it. You should also mark the amount of rail tuck in the same fashion. These marks are really all you need. Slowly take planer or Surform passes as you move toward these marks. Click here to read up more on banding rails. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/9dcc5ab4-4da1-4523-9f37-b8c23598d657/hangtime_surf_rail_bands_brock_jones.jpg Tips for Shapers - Shape Scribeless - Make it stand out Shown here the rail apex with buffer marks around it and the rail tuck above. Here you see two rough rail passes arriving at the tuck mark anf the first buffer mark above the rail apex. The bands are their widest at this point and scale down to zero at the ends. Lines drawn with a scribe will not accomplish the same scalability. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/e57e3269-c7a4-4a1f-b75f-cf6c4f82b5fe/IMG_3540.JPG Tips for Shapers - Shape Scribeless - Make it stand out This photo is a good example of how rail bands scale towards/at the ends of the outline, especially towards the nose (in this case) where the template narrows more agressively. As a side note, the recycled polyol blank in the background was, in my opinion, terrible. I haven’t touched another since this photo was taken. https://www.hangtimesurf.com/blog/sanding-blocks monthly 0.5 2025-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/31adccab-54a9-4cfc-ab14-4172cdba6e8c/Jones_Shapes_Surfboards_screen1.JPG Tips for Shapers - Sanding Blocks - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/a1909bed-3be4-4dcc-b5f6-687a22812879/IMG_1760.jpg Tips for Shapers - Sanding Blocks - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/d8ef8e97-3aa4-4ef7-b7df-287f02c2b0f1/Jones_Shapes_Surfboards_Shaping_Tip_7_Finish_Nose_Tail+%285%29.JPG Tips for Shapers - Sanding Blocks - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/738d03a4-b15b-43c8-a342-73e8ba984d7f/Jones_Shapes_Surfboards_Brock_Jones_Tool_Talk_sanding_block.gif Tips for Shapers - Sanding Blocks - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hangtimesurf.com/blog/screening-rails monthly 0.5 2024-12-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/e4c3c771-8545-4893-9405-ca44a48fb833/Jones_Shapes_Surfboards_screen1.JPG Tips for Shapers - Screening Rails - Make it stand out I use a Surform and a 40 grit sanding block to begin breaking my bands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/faef1189-7fb5-42c8-8f6a-eb97dbb58f4d/Jones_Shapes_Surfboards_screen2.JPG Tips for Shapers - Screening Rails - Make it stand out My rails will look something like this before screening. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/6579585a-821b-41f2-800b-f1a5c4fe2608/Jones_Shapes_Surfboards_railScreen2.JPG Tips for Shapers - Screening Rails - Make it stand out Holding your screen squarely like this and pushing too hard will leave visible grooves in your rail. You will typically see this on the mass-produced shortboard labels…we can do better than that! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/32eeba98-e5f1-4169-a2c2-888c37cc0200/Jones_Shapes_Surfboards_railScreen1.JPG Tips for Shapers - Screening Rails - Make it stand out Instead, hold your screen at an angle like this and use a light approach. All you should be doing is lightly removing the scratches from the previous grit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/34310a12-7072-4e00-8c8e-ec0a153ed334/jones_shapes_surfboards_old_screen.JPG Tips for Shapers - Screening Rails - Make it stand out Dad’s 50+ year old screen…ultra fine! Never EVER throw away your screens! https://www.hangtimesurf.com/blog/mill-to-thickness monthly 0.5 2024-12-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/cf29a3f5-0ae1-4a26-b958-8cb1cd15ed88/jones_shapes_surfboards_natural_mystic_2.jpg Tips for Shapers - Mill to Thickness - Make it stand out I’ve planed this blank to thickness prior to cutting the outline, which will be easier now with thinner rails. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/75d22b34-f0ed-4749-9b8c-57e31c0f3ddf/BrockShaping02.jpg Tips for Shapers - Mill to Thickness - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hangtimesurf.com/blog/cutting-an-outline monthly 0.5 2024-12-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/44d7a155-37e6-442a-b631-2a126a28b18c/Jones_Shapes_Surfboards_Outline_Shaping_Tip.png Tips for Shapers - Cutting an Outline - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/9420a60b-553e-465d-ba31-7840adac7640/20220707_141655734_iOS.jpg Tips for Shapers - Cutting an Outline - Make it stand out If you’re just getting started, you will want to give yourself a little room between your outline and the saw. A little buffer that you can true up later with the planer and a sanding block. Also, notice the vertical orientation of the blade as I near the more curvacious end of the outline. Cutting with the narrower tip of the saw here really helps get around the curve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/e0a32de3-c6b3-4011-8fee-4682f088e8d2/20220706_202025731_iOS.jpg Tips for Shapers - Cutting an Outline - Make it stand out I angle the saw more and use more of the bland when cutting the straighter, mid section of the outline. https://www.hangtimesurf.com/blog/first-rail-band monthly 0.5 2024-12-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/cd883e6f-3cf9-4d8f-bf88-13b0991b3e46/hangtime_surf_surfboard_shaping_tip_rail_marks_animation.gif Tips for Shapers - First Rail Band - Make it stand out In this animation the lightest blue band is the shorter, first planer pass. The next passes will move up the rail towards the rail tuck AND foil the rail over a longer distance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/e07ccec3-8fb0-460d-a8cd-8f11b9e4f4d2/Jones_Shapes_Surfboards_Shaping_Tip_Rail_Banding_Animation.gif Tips for Shapers - First Rail Band - Make it stand out Here’s a cross section view (again, bottom facing up) of how I band my softer railed longboards. It illustrates an initial, more veritcal band aimed at getting down to your buffer mark. After that you continue to foil and refine the rail. https://www.hangtimesurf.com/finspiration daily 0.75 2026-05-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/0881c650-d4ec-4af4-8036-06b7fab6db2b/IMG_0425.jpg https://www.hangtimesurf.com/finspiration/lamination-box monthly 0.5 2025-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/74da8173-cdee-407d-bb17-19072fa166df/hangtime_surf_reFiber_lamination_box+%281%29.jpg #finspiration - 10.5” Re-Fiber™ Lamination Box - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/70844d92-ad50-432b-b377-ec5cef7c5e1a/hangtime_surf_reFiber_lamination_box+%282%29.jpg #finspiration - 10.5” Re-Fiber™ Lamination Box - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/ca28eb40-e3d2-4d4c-bf4e-1d78890223c9/hangtime_surf_reFiber_lamination_box+%283%29.jpg #finspiration - 10.5” Re-Fiber™ Lamination Box - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.hangtimesurf.com/finspiration/bruces-story monthly 0.5 2026-05-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/f90a0aef-9719-454e-8897-98c9288be02f/hangtime_surf_bruce_jones_clark_foam.jpg #finspiration - Bruce’s Story - Make it stand out The sighting jig built by Bruce and Reid Price to search for twists in Clark Foam blank mold plugs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/b1c62a66-5814-49c6-a1ca-6ceadbc63397/bruce1969.jpg #finspiration - Bruce’s Story - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/5adbab84-a232-4f81-98a0-f969c8eeac66/speedshaping.jpg #finspiration - Bruce’s Story - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/70a9c3e0-f881-4caf-8791-13a5aac24f64/Jones_Shapes_surfboards_blockplane_Shaping_Tip.JPG #finspiration - Bruce’s Story - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/7c35ce86-608c-4ac7-947b-591ef2a3e850/IMG_3520.JPG #finspiration - Bruce’s Story - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/e5d1525a-563e-4b0b-98aa-fadab5ee5107/shaping1color.jpg #finspiration - Bruce’s Story - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/b7984269-8fdd-4ff1-80fd-4fa1700f378f/1966_Bruce_Jones_Jackie_Baxter_LCH_485.jpg #finspiration - Bruce’s Story - Make it stand out Bruce Jones (left) and Jackie Baxter at Vardeman Surfboards 1965. Photo: Leo Hetzel https://www.hangtimesurf.com/finspiration/why-i-shape monthly 0.5 2024-12-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/583c6da9-f08b-47c9-9e72-be522d19f22b/11.jpg #finspiration - Why I Shape - Make it stand out Photo: Simon Ford https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671683fe2d7259726e748d8a/e3b425f5-f36f-4e92-b768-f2c1ee15f246/shaping5bw.jpg #finspiration - Why I Shape - Make it stand out Dad shaping ~ Photo: Brock Jones https://www.hangtimesurf.com/new-page daily 1.0 2026-05-26 https://www.hangtimesurf.com/about daily 0.75 2025-06-16 https://www.hangtimesurf.com/10half-standard-center-fin-boxes daily 0.75 2025-06-05 https://www.hangtimesurf.com/8-center-fin-boxes-1 daily 0.75 2025-06-05