Yep do it.

I love the deep double concave he puts in his shortboards. it just seems to work for me. Just be aware the one is alot thicker and wider than your general performance shortboard. I guess you'll know what size your after for your style of surfing, size and skill level. He shapes some good boards.

i have an old fibreglass webber from back in the day and a new afterburner epoxy. the old one is good for tiny summer waves cos it is real thick and has basically no rocker. impossible to turn. when i got the afterburner i soon realised that the profile is exactly the same - surprising seeing he is marketing himself as so innovative, exact same profile over 10 years later. don't rate it, it's real fast which is fun but hard to do tight turns. just make sure u get a short webber to compensate so u can still turn

ok i'll look into that robin

For sure SLX is an innovation for shapers and makes the mass-shaping process easier and more reliable and may even improve board performance ;p It's an innovation in materials and manufacture. But it doesn't represent any refinement in terms of surfboard profile.

The afterburner did glide really nicely on clean waves, that was really good and fun on long wave faces but you don't get a lot of those in the city. I personally I found it pretty hard to turn. I guess one point that is probably clear is to get an epoxy board about 2 inches smaller than u normally ride. That way the ratio of your body weight to the bouyancy of your board will be better and you can still dig it in for turns.

The second is just that a wide board with no rocker is not always the best for turning. It doesn't need to be narrow for speed as these boards are fast, but a wide bouyant tail isn't so great for putting pressure on the back foot to turn and having fine control of that turn and the width means that the rail is more likely to catch during a turn. That's just my personal take on it but if you have a different view go ahead. The best board I ever bought was a fibreglass board at jeffrey's bay - those shapers really know how to make a fast board that is very responsive and turns incredibly well.