Are you sure the Rainbow runners weren’t for LOKBOX fins. I know the Trueames are glass ons. I’ve been waiting 3 months for the Trueames superlight center fin.
rainbow lists their runners as $80 for either fcs or lokbox…doesn’t give a price for glass-ons. but i was told awhile back for longboard centers that you can order any fin as a glass-on, but the price is the same. regardless…another $50 for a lokbox or fcs tab…freakin’ ridiculous!
and i, too, would like the superlight center…i guess i’ll be waiting awhile.
good lookin’ fins. i considered going that route, but have never actually seen a bonzer up close and personal, and was unsure of how the fins were foiled. approximately how thick are they?
well, probox is my fin system of choice, and i really dig robin’s fins…but i think i wanna go glass-on for the runners – maintain that nice smooth transition between the concaves. although…it’d make a great travel board…maybe i’ll give some thought to the probox route (in fact, i need to order some new fins and boxes anyway)
robin…i know you’re out there! got any bonzer fins laid up?? send pix! (and please price to compete with True Ames rather than Rainbow…thanx!)
Yes! We actually have the first ones out just this week. I have attached a photo of one of the fins, sorry it is not clearer and is not installed in an actual bonzer, but you can get the idea.
I’ll try to get some more pictures from California that I can post. I will be putting these on our new website when I get it finished. The price is certainly going to be closer to True Ames than Rainbow, especially based on the input I have read here. I’ll let you know as soon as we have it finalized.
Buy more boxes to get a better price. Go in on a bunch with some guys from Sways, if you have to. Just mold your own bases onto fiberglass fins you have made with tabs. Use an exixting lokbox fin to turn a box into a mold for a base, then set the base tab of your completed fin into that cavity at the desired angle and fill w/epoxy+fibers. use a trim router and a 1/8" straight bit for the slot. Don’t forget mold release! For small batches or experimenting on your own it’s quite manageable.
my biggest concern with using boxes instead of glassing on the runners is fitting the box in between and adjacent to the bonzer concaves. wouldn’t parts of the box overhang into the concave and need to be ground away?
when you guys have a set of fins properly installed in a bonzer, if you could give me a little guidance in setting the boxes without messing up the concaves, that’d be great.
As soon as we have a good example I will post some photos and some installation guidelines.
But be aware that using any fin system is not going to get you the original Bonzer effect where the runners were installed almost as an extension of the concave, for obvious reasons.
But be aware that using any fin system is not going to get you the original Bonzer effect where the runners were installed almost as an extension of the concave, for obvious reasons.
i know…which is why i’m most tempted to glass on the runners. but if probox can offer minimal intrusion, the option to remove the fins for travel would be nice. and besides…i might just order a set of fins as glass-ons from you instead of true ames (if you could accommodate that).
ProBox Bonzer Quad Runners [4 fins] - $80 [because of the angle in the base of these fins are more costly to manufacture]
ProBox Bonzer Twin Runners [2 fins] - $60 [these are much longer than the quad runners so there is more material in them]
Glass-on Bonzer Quad Runners [4 fins] - $56
Glass-on Bonzer Twin Runners [2 fins] - $32
NOTE: the ProBox fins have a solid glass base they are not made by potting an angled base on to the fin so they are a lot stronger but also a lot more expensive to make because they have to be laid up with an angle which limits the number of fins that can be made from a panel.
prices are in! nice to finally have a source for twin bonzer runners…don’t think i’ve seen those on offer from anyone! makes me wanna go shape a bonzer-3!!!
