Why in the world would you order half a dozen boards from a guy if the quality was sub par? Secondly i am speaking of Aftermath not Spyder, Wright owns his own 3dm shaping machine and all glass is done by Mystery in Huntington, and seems pretty damn bullet proof. Must be a pretty good "scrubber" since he has worked under the likes of Peter Daniels, Spider Murphy, etc. [/quote]
Because I had ordered all my boards at once! Ian had scored a deal on a bunch of Australian blanks so he cut me a deal on a multiple board order. So with that, I replenished my whole quiver!
He shaped me a HPLB, mini log, fish, hpsb and a gun. The shapes were great, they just snackled really easily and turned yellow pretty fast. At the time these boards were made Ian was doing the glassing in-house (I saw his laminating room and boards being glassed when I picked up my boards). Since then, if he started outsourcing his glassing for better quality then good for him.
I never said that Ian couldn't shape, it's just sad to see he relies almost solely on the machine these days. And as far as Ian having his own 3DM machine???.....he still stops by Pat Ryan's place a few times a week to either pick up or drop off blanks, so I find it hard to believe he would put that much $$$ into his own shaping machine then take his blanks elsewhere to get them shaped.
Maybe he is just trying to throw Pat a bone and give him some business then??? [/quote]
Follow the link below and scroll down until you see the Aftermath logo, you will see he has had a 3dm in house for 5+ years as well as working with Jon Yow distributing, selling, and training for the 3dm, so I doubt very seriously he is having anyone cut his boards! As for you not saying he wasn't a good shaper, I don't think calling him a scrubber would be considered a compliment. I guess guys like Biolis, Bulkley, Rusty, Hoyte , Gibbons, Roberts, Ryan, etc........ are just scrubbers as well since they all use computer/machine precuts. So from whom do you get your 100% hand shaped magic boards?
http://www.surfboardshapingmachine.com/cus/Cust%20Working%20-%20Copy.htm