APS3000 Machine Featured on Science Channel

June 29th, 2007

Last night the Discovery Science Channel did a show called “How do they do it”, which talked about the science of designing and machining surfboards. It featured Matt Ambrose’s APS3000 machine in northern California and went into detail about how the machine cuts blanks and how the software design process is carried out. Grant Washburn talked about the importance of having quality accurate boards especially at heavier spots like Mavericks. It was a good show.

New Features added to the Machine

June 20th, 2007

Significant improvements have been made to our new generation machine

  • Elimination of the “angel wings” pic
  • Auto oiling of the machine - no more getting dusty before you cut your first board
  • Raised machine - no more back bending when loading and unloading
  • High tensile tungsten cutter with diamonds grown on surface
  • Even smoother stringer cut, especially near nose pic
  • See the Machine Features page and pics of cut boards for more info.

    Thinking about buying a shaping machine?

    June 20th, 2007

    We offer a couple tips and a few questions to ask.

    Vault changes

    November 8th, 2006

    After setting up the forum and playing with it the past few weeks, we’ve decided to move the contents of the vault into the forum and kill the existing vault. This will make all our help content accessible in one place and under one login, hopefully making the information you are looking for that much easier to find.

    Introducing The APS3000 Forum

    October 25th, 2006

    Visit The Forum to bounce designs ideas off of other APS3000 users, get help on using the software, put in feature requests, and more.