The thread was good, but some fins really caught my eye…and I thought they might go nice here, with all the recent discussion of colored fins, wood fins, making your own fins…
Apparently, the guy who makes them lays up a thin panel of colored glass, maybe 10 pieces thick. Then laminates on thin wood - maybe 1/16" veneer? - and foils the works, exposing the colored panel from the middle. Once foiled, glassing over the whole thing with clear produces a nice effect.
At first I thought they just tinted rovings to make a halo after foiling, but its too even. Apologies if you’ve seen 'em before, but I hadn’t.
the guy in the longboard shop here recently made a few sets of keels with two layers of pigmented cloth laminated between the plys.
Care to enlighten us Yanks about who this Elliot Goblet guy is? I read the profile on his web page, and came away knowing that he’s a comedian of sorts, but little else. Kind of looks like a cross between Tom Greene and E. L. Kersten (The despair.com guy).
