SINGLE FIN TEMPLATES .....

chipfish61 · October 27, 2005, 1:01pm

thanks , Craig !!

…please keep getting your students to make these “useless” [ ?!! …to them !] single fins …the Auslocks board may end up being the most [single] finned board in Australia , if not the WORLD !!

[IS it possible to cut out a finbox tab and base [for a normal 10" box] on the next one by any chance , please , Craig ? I’d like to buy one of these for my 7’er]

cheers !

ben

chipfish61 · October 27, 2005, 1:04pm

Quote:

Chip,

Be glad to send you some via the old Clipper ship. mike

thanks Mike !

I’d be glad to receive them !

cheers !

ben

[I didn’t know ‘shipman’ was coming out …

Woody_waverider · November 1, 2005, 1:11pm

Hi Ben.

Here’s another template, scanned full scale.

Any dimensions to go with Craigs fins?? What material was used? but most of all I’d love to know how the checkered inlay was done, those fins look sweet as.

chipfish61 · November 1, 2005, 1:15pm

come in Craig …[I deleted the email without saving it . D’oh !! …sorry, Woody]

ben

dower · November 1, 2005, 4:57pm

i had this glassed on my 7’ egg. cut it off recently, put in a box and a TK flex

chipfish61 · November 2, 2005, 3:57am

thanks guys !

just thought I’d do a post comparing WoodyWaverider’s, and Rhino’s templates … hope ya don’t mind …

rhino · November 2, 2005, 6:27am

Howzit woody!

This is the third time Iv’e written this because my computer keeps deleting my post during the spell check!!! ARRRG!!!

It is very easy to make a checker design,

First, cut your stock to width- looks like he used 2 woods at maybe 1/4"?

Next, Lamanate those strips togeter with an alternating pattern, having different woods at either end. after glue-up, plane both surfaces.

Now cross-cut the board into equal strips and lamanate again, but this time, flip every other strip so that the pattern takes form. Make sure that the corners line up or the pattern will be askew.

Finally, plane that product and add whatever woods you wish to surround it to create your fin blank.

Cheers,

Austin

*Good Idea Ben, I think the post shows off the pure greatness and superiority of my perfect fin…hehehe…

gill · November 2, 2005, 10:29am

Hey Woody, the fins are easily done if you have the right tools. Firstly cut 6 strips of alternately coloured timber and laminate them together (I run them down to 18 by 10mm prior to glueing). Let dry, then cut the laminated pieces into 10mm widths. Flip every second one over to make the checkerboard pattern and again laminate together (easy to do if you make a jig that is the length of the pattern with a fence around it to hold all in position). Let dry and laminate two 5mm strips to the edges and also clamp the bulk of the fin material to either side. Once all is dry, run the lot through a planer/thicknesser to get the desired thickness (up to you, usually 10 to 12mm to allow for foiling etc.). Cut out on a bandsaw and foil.

I’ll take some pics of the next one, might make it clearer.

Timber used is Radiata Pine and Pacific Maple, as I have lots of it laying around and it’s light and easy to sand. All glued with PVA.

Let me know if this answers your question.

chipfish61 · November 2, 2005, 10:34am

“I’ll take some pics of the next one, might make it clearer.”

yes, please !

that would be GREAT , mate !

thanks !

ben

chipfish61 · November 3, 2005, 1:19pm

(from the “prawn’'s keel , or single fin , option days …it was 6’2” , in those days)

base 4 3/4"

depth 6 1/2"

rake 3 1/4"

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lucas · November 5, 2005, 5:21am

hey Ben, hope this works ok, i have more that i couldn’t scan cause they were too big to fit on the scanner.

my favourite out of these 4 (2 in next post) is the 8 1/4 " fin. it was in one of Andrew’s (ad68) boards, an s-deck that he shaped, before being broken out by some guy one day and lost in the sea.