template

Tracing guide, usually made of thin plastic, fiberboard, cardboard, Masonite, or plywood, used by surfboard shapers to draw a board's outline on an polyurethane foam blank. Templates can be one-piece, full-length, nose-to-tail outlines, but more often come in the form of an asymmetric, half-length "spin template," something like a French curve, which can be used to create new outlines, depending o...