Any suggestions as to how the fin on the right hand side can be made closer to the colour of the fin on the left hand side [without spraypaint].
One is volan cloth , I believe …the other is chopped matt, possibly with white tint in it , glassed over with maybe 6oz ?
Any help much appreciated …
cheers !
ben
[I am going to make a pair of side fins from them]
Howdy Ben,
You could always do your re-shaping/sanding, and then do a tinted gloss or gelcoat on them. If you go translucid, the variations in colour from sanding depths usually end in a slightly marbled finish (you can also do a translucid marbled tint to start with, pretty cool looking). I used to be scared to this method, but if you control your sanding it goes just fine. Just used a tinted gelcoat to finish up a restoration on an extremely beat up '65 Yater and am more than satisfied with the result.
Sure that there are other ways out there as well! Enjoy.
thanks Jeffrey , I’ll give that a try !
[I’m hoping that by sanding the "whitish fin " pretty thin , some of the “solidness” of its colour will go.
cheers !
ben chipper
I think your stuck with the color. If you sand one thinner your going to sand a lot to change that color, then your going to be changing the flex of the finn? If your trying to get two similar fins made out of different cloth, and different pigments, you’d better start over with two new fins. Why not lay up a new panel of glass and do two shiney new fins…you know you want to, then you can tell us the specs, and post the pictures.
Or maybe you could do this…sand the fins down to a pre glass thickness, like a pair of wood fins. Then mix up a thick pigmented batch of resin and re glass the two fins with 2 layers of 6 oz on each side. Hotcoat with a thick batch of pigmented resin, and polish out…done
-Jay
Thanks Jay !
yep , I might end up with two sets of identical fins , as I like the outline and colours of each as they are … I was just doing the usual “chipper money-saving/ recycling” thing / idea first …
hopefully next time I’m on hicksy’s computer , I may have the finished product to show and tell …plus maybe in my new mal [“longboard”] , once the auslocks board is all finished … wooohoooo …eight to ten weeks of concentrated effort from the hickster on that one , in between work , a new swimming pool being put in his garden , raising a family , and driving the kombi !!
catchya !
look after that giant squid of yours , eh ?
ben
Howzit Chip, I’d just spray paint them with epoxy paint any old color you want, quick/easy.Aloha,Kokua
well, I thinned down the chopped mat fin , and it went a nice translucent whitish / milky colour .
I will use it, and the bottle green fin , as they are , as a pair of twin fins. On the “prawn”.
… Perhaps tomorrow on the Auslocks board too, with a trailer fin.
Well , it was to have given two old single fins a new lease of life !
cheers !
"chippy "