Looking for a FISH pic, can't find it.. HELP!

I came across a picture of a fish board, with the nice big swallow tail. Except on the rails near the tail, instead of wingers, there was like a batwing sort of cut in the rails. Thought it was pretty cool. Can’t seem to find it now though. Anyone else seen this pic?

Thanks

Where the rail bulged out instead of in?

Yeah, that might be from this guy Erik Hakon Olsen who has a blog called Breaks Selection.

http://breaksselection.blogspot.com/search/label/K-bar%20Tail

There are some real nice boards coming from his hands.

Looking at that style board makes me wonder. I have heard in posts here that wings or bumps on a board act as pivot points, if so then those batwing things must really pivot.

Only question, is do they cause extra drag?

edit the image link doesn’t work… maybe no permissions or something?

THATS THE ONE! Cool, thanks man. I was trying to tell a friend about it, and it struck some confusion. Thanks again!

Great blog! Thanks for that!

Since that pic is posted, it raises another question. I’ve done a fair amount of work with tints. But I come across boards that have color work like that one, it looks like tint, it can’t be paint because you cant see the stringer. Is the person just using a mass amount of tint?

It’s not paint or tint. It’s opaque. In this case a 2 color opaque.

So how do you go about doing an opaque?

Same as tint. do a cut lap.

Do you think that that’s a bought color, or that it was mixed?

I’ve been doing some mixing and testing myself using the pallette of color that I have (black, white, red, green, blue and yellow) gotten so far.

Luckily I have a roomate who is an artist, so I get advice on color mixing, but it still involves lots of test panels. Been wondering if there is anywhere that sells a broad range of colors in tints/pigments.

Tints and opaques are two different types of pigment. The tints do just that, tint the resin

but it stays translucent. Opaques turn the resin opaque, meaning that light will not go through it.

On a tint, you’ll see the stringer, on an opaque you usually won’t.

MIke