I just put a new sheet of glass on my 6'10" Surfboards Australia restoration, and then I added the two fins I had
shaped to replace the ones I broke off, as I show you here in the pic. (I have done FCS plugs but this is my first
glass-on fin job so I'm a little walking on eggs here).
When I put the fins on, I simply mixed up some tack-resin, and stuck the fins on, using a jig for the left one. Now
that it's dry, the fins are in position fine, and I can continue glassing the fins, and then hotcoat. But I was interrupted
and I did NOT finish the fillet part and the sheets of glass over the fins part of the job right away.
But since the fins do NOT lie perfectly flat on my board due to the fact that they are flat and my board has
rocker, some of the tack resin gets under the front and rear of the fin. So here are my questions:
- Should I grind away a little tack resin fore and aft just to make the glass rope fit in better or should I just not
worry about the already dry tack resin, and simply glass-rope fillet around the outside of the fin, and then
add the sheets of fin-glass?
- Would you have hot-coated right away - I won't be hot-coating until I finish the fins today. I'm not worried about this, I guess
I just did this project a bit too one step at a time. If I had had more time, I would have done it all at once.
- Do you ever shape the bottom of the fin to match the rocker or is that unnecessary?
So anyway, I'm not really worried that the fins are just gonna fall off or something, just curious if you would take the
extra step and grind some resin away. I might just skip it.