I come from France and started shaping my own boards a few monthes ago.
I kept thinking about doing it and finaly jumped into it.
So far, I’ve made 3 boards and I’m going on N°4 and more.
That N°4 will be a LIS / FRYE like fish (a real fish).
My question is (knowing that being french my technical english is not wonderfull and the search engine did not help me much - sorry if the answers already exist):
How do I manage to laminate the fish tail ?
Is there something really special I should know about or is it way much easier than it seems ?
Thank you for any answers.
By the way, a french speaking forum exists. It’s been only two months since it came to life.
Hopefully it’ll get as interesting as Swaylock’s is.
Come and visit if you are interested (it’s not my website, I just give the information): www.shaperoom.net
I assume you are talking about the butt-crack. Everything else is the same as laming any board.I’ll try to explain how I do it. I’m a novice, too. Shaped 7 or 8 fishes and glassed 4 or 5 of them. The butt crack is tricky part.
Start on the bottom. After trimming the glass I cut a “Gee string” that wraps up its crack and onto the deck. I cut the glass flush with the bottom around the inside of the butt curves. No overlap. Lam as usual.
When I lam the deck I cut the glass so it overlaps the inside rails of the butt curves. As you approch the crack the overlap decreases. There may be unlaminated foam. I cut two rectagular strips and lam them onto the inside of the rail butt-crack curves. Complete the lam as usual. Hopefully,the experts will chime in with better ways. This works pretty well for me, however. Mike
adding some roving rope along the inside of the swallow and unto the pins helps prevent dings that frequently occur there.
Better yet, stop kidding around with fishes, grow up and shape yourself a good old pintail semi-gun…
(For all of you out there, that’s a private joke between Lob and myself. In fact I love fishes too…) By the way, your English’s not too bad, my friend…