Surfboard shaping: the Rails

Shaping the Rampant is taking a while, as we have been busy with 3Dprinted fins and surfing this summer, but it is now nearly done. The nose has a soft entry, but still retains the downrail of the constant rail design. The tail on the other hand is left with a hard edge for the last foot or so as can be seen in this video:



Check out some of the previous posts about this board, this one explains why we used a single concave from nose to tail on this design :
http://www.roystuart.biz/2013/09/rampants-surfboard-design-why-concave.html


This link shows the first steps of shaping after cutting out the blank:
http://www.roystuart.biz/2013/08/shaping-rampant-10-5-concave-hull-design.html