The workshop
We could not find the machine we needed
ShapeXpert was not born in a design office. The machines were designed in a shaping workshop, for a shaping workshop, by someone who has been shaping since 1988 — and who uses them every day to produce his own boards.
Why these machines exist
Three observations, and one decision
- Outsourcing takes your margin and your lead time. Right now you order, you pay and you wait for your preshape. With a CNC, outsourcing lead times and costs are gone.
- The CNC machines on the market are not made for a shaping workshop. Designed for metal or cabinetmaking, they are too expensive, too bulky, and unable to swallow a five-metre blank.
- Machine builders sell machines. We shape. Flipping the blank, holding it down, the surface finish, the dust extraction: every technical choice comes from the workshop, not from a design office.
We could not find the machine we needed. So we built it.
Phil Carbon, founder
1988
Shaper and windsurfer since
369
Boards shaped
Several
World titles
2ND ELEMENT SAS
The company behind the machines
ShapeXpert is a brand of 2ND ELEMENT SAS, a French company. The machines are designed, built, assembled and set up in France, and meet the CE marking requirements.
The first production machine is installed at Gong Factory. Three more workshops will be equipped with one by the end of the year.
Let's talk about your workshop
Tell us what you shape and how much room you have. We reply within 48 working hours, and it is a shaper who replies.