:::::PICTURES FROM THE FUTURES FINS FACTORY::::: Here are two of Futures Fin's engineers designing new fins. Designs from the engineering department go directly from the engineering computers to this machine.  Blocks of engineered fiberglass material are placed inside the machine behind those glass doors.  A computerized numerically controlled (CNC) cutting head cuts the top half of the fin from the block.  Then the fiberglass block is turned over and the cutting is completed on the other side. This is what comes out of the machine... rough cut fin prototypes.  These fiberglass fin prototypes are sanded and finished in just a few minutes.  Ideas can go from a napkin sketch, to the computer, to the prototyping machine, to the bottom of a board for performance testing very quickly. Forget quad fins, nonuplets (9 fins) are the next trend in surfboards!  OK... I lied.  This is a board for testing fin boxes.  Vince assures me they have a better system than this now. The true measure of a companies worth is not how much stuff they sell, or even the quality of their product, but rather it's the happiness of the employees.  This guy in the shipping department is representative of every face I saw at Futures.  Stoked.  Futures Fins... a good company.		:::::LINKS::::: Futures Fins :::::LISTEN VIA COMPUTER::::: Click here to stream it onto your computer. Right click here and save target :::::LISTEN ON YOUR iPOD::::: Go to the podcast section of iTunes, search for "Off the Lip", and subscribe to the show.