thanks heaps mike daniels !!

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i just laid up an irish coloured [green , white , orange] fin panel .

using your tip about filler resin between the coloured layers , i had no colour bleed for the first time ever

so , MANY thanks !! [was it jim phillips who told you that ? if so , THANKS to HIM , too]

… it’s these little tips that make swaylocks such a good place to be [especially for a random fin-tinkerer like me ] !!

cheers !

ben

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You're very welcome, Ben. Isn't it cool when you hit the first fin with the grinder and see those colors come out nice and crisp? Jim Phillips did teach me how to do fin sheets - in 1980 (hard to believe it's been that long!).

And of course I have to ask, where's the pics? :)

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hey mike or ben,

 

can you go into a bit more detail on the ‘filler resin’.  i plan to do a fin panel with color in the near future and could use some tips if you guys have the time.  thanks

 

brasco

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Hotcoat, with same color resin, onto the first layup before proceeding to next color. No sanding needed if it lays flat and clean, and you start next color while it's still green. (exotherm from first lam can make you have to wait and sand). ''Accent lines'' are single hotcoats of a contrasting color between two layups of other colors.

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thanks mike !

i did a second mini-panel , this time with a LIME green and a LIGHTER orange colour [with the white in between] , as Ross’ irish dad mentioned my first panel looked more like the italian flag [the orange DID look a bit RED ?!]

Hopefully , if someone here can tell me step by step the keys to press , hopefully i’ll be able to upload photos from this here apple mac computer [i’m used to windows] …

cheers !

ben

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    Howzit Mike, When I do fin panels I putdown wax paper, that way your first layer will turn into sandable on the finished outside. I also do a clear lam coat ( no glass ) between color changes. Aloha,Kokua

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Hi kokua, good to see you back in here sharing your wisdom. The wax paper is a good trick; at Jim's we had a formica table we would wax up before lam. You can just put wax paper down on any flat surface and go, great for small panels.