@ mr love - another sweet looking board. i feel your pain also and have a few designs that don't have any budget. 
my next board i managed to swap a board for professional services. other than that i blew my budget on shiny new sails. 
@ slowboat - i had the pleasure of looking at a lockwood/nude speed board on the weekend. very nice design and really well built. it looked the goods!! only thing i was dissapointed with was i left my ruler and straight edge at home. 
maybe next time 
the whole cnc versus templates, it continually amazes me that the average punter thinks that cnc boards are some how superior due to shaping/construction. i really see this as the main reason the shapers in australia aren't inundated with orders.
shame, shame, shame.
Hi J
Its been a while since i've used Boardcad.
Spent the last 1000 odd hours in Fin Design Soft/ Numbers looking for the unobtanium speed fin that will work in moderate winds for the aged, infirmed speedsurfers seeking 50 knots over 500 metres.
HeHe, CNC machine is about to greet a G10 sheet.
I agree with Gestalt on the hand shaped versus cnc shaped issue. An accurately shaped board is an accurately shaped board, it doesn't matter who or what shaped it.
Another thing to consider is the laminating process. You can have a board that is shaped to within 21 ****teenths of a mm and then bend or squash it completely out of shape during the laminating process if it's not done correctly.
I just got censored for saying Pooofteenths. You see, that strengthens my argument. Computers don't always do things exactly as you would like them to.
