Been shaping as a hobie now for about three years and my old wood longboard fin jig has taken a beating. What are my options to up grade? I thought about just taking the 8" and 10.5 box to a local machine shop and having them carve me one out a Jig out of a 1/4" piece of steel/aluminum. Any suggestions?
As you re edit your post I’m beginning to understand what your talkin about.Here,get the bit that goes with it…
http://surfsource.net/store/category/fins_boxes_-_longboard/
I made a jig out 6 mm rubber
Just glue it into place and run the router
Just pull it off when you finished and clean of the glue with some wax and grease remover.
I have one for each sized box I use and use.
Made one for my leash plug too.
Cheers
Hozit tommycover, I had a wood one I made that worked really good and then I got some aluminum stock and had a friend who has a machine shop cut the bottom plate and then I drew what I wanted for holes that were elongated for making changes and did that on all 4 sides and then got some L stock and cut it and rounded off the corners and drilled holes for thr bolts for the slots and in the endI put some semi soft rubber on the bottom of the plate and it worked great. Then Jim of LokBox comes and gives me one of his install systems with the vacumn and that was that and I never looked back, His jigs are the best and they are worth every penny they cost. Aloha,Kokua
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