Anyone in the socal area makes or has a fin, i need one! unfinished, unfoiled, all ok! tried to make one, and it came out baaad! board is ready to glass.
what did u triy make yours out of? fiberrglass is easy. lay up bout for or five layers rectanlge that are the right size, saturate with lamination resin, let gell and repeat till tyou fins is about 5/8 of an inch cut to shape and foil.
Old school fins take about 25-35.943 layers of 6 oz cloth (FCS fins are about 24). Lay them down in groups of 5 layers at a time. Get a piece of wax paper and place it on the garage floor use the floor as a flat base. Laminate alternate colors every 10 laminates so you can get that cool layered look, or just do the whole thing in one color, amaze your friends with cool rice paper logo of you blowing Dr. Pepper out you nose. The trick is to build it up with cloth, not resin. if you make a resin fin (10 layers of cloth with gobs of resin in between) it will be stiff, and if you hit something it will just shatter into pieces.
-Jay
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