Utilizing new technology and user-friendly software solutions derived from years of development, the APS 3000 boasts the ability to produce close to finished surfboard shapes while still matching current production times.
Before the introduction of the APS 3000, shaping machines have only been able to produce shapes at the rate of four surfboards per hour with all incomplete shapes requiring additional and costly hand finishing. Now, with the APS 3000 comes the ability to equal this rate while performing technical cutting and finishing techniques with ultimate precision that result in a shape almost ready to fiberglass.
The APS 3000 boasts cutting features such as full-rail cutting with tucked edges, single and double concaves, vees, subtle hips to hard wings. Over and above this, the technology provides the ability to design and cut custom boards or replicate existing designs. In a world first for an in-demand shaper, Nev Hyman of "Nev Surfboards" no longer uses "ghost shapers", subsequently assuming complete control of his shaping and design. Nev has been for the past 5 years instrumental in the development and "beta" testing of the APS3000.
World-renowned shapers such as Australia's thruster inventor Simon Anderson, 'reverse-vee' pioneer Maurice Cole, DHD's Darren Handley, Pipedreams Murray Bourton, Rod Dahlberg and design guru Greg Webber are astounded with the machine's capabilities, with Webber describing its performance as "absolutely breathtaking".
Six-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater of the USA admitted his mind was "racing with possibilities" after viewing the machine's capabilities and its potential to consistently reproduce the 'magic board'.
Most importantly perhaps, is the machine's ability to capture the "character" of any one shaper's designs via its precision, a quality often lost in the numerical process of copying original boards for data input used by other systems, and of course human error.
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APS 3000
Utilizing new technology and user-friendly software solutions derived from years of development, the APS 3000 boasts the ability to produce close to finished surfboard shapes while still matching current production times. Before the introduction of the APS 3000, shaping machines have only been able to produce shapes at the rate of four surfboards per hour with all incomplete shapes requiring additional and costly hand finishing. Now, with the APS 3000 comes the ability to equal this rate while performing technical cutting and finishing techniques with ultimate precision that result in a shape almost ready to fiberglass. TThe APS 3000 boasts cutting features such as full-rail cutting with tucked edges, single and double concaves, vees, subtle hips to hard wings. Over and above this, the technology provides the ability to design and cut custom boards or replicate existing designs.
