How to make a big glass fin for a wooden surfboard

[bababacardi]

super cool man;) thank you, great music on all of your "vIdeas" as well.

I just want to know how you place the design "inside" the monster, is that a kind of paper in the middle or something?

keep on posting

[RoyStewart]

Thanks. The design is on cloth which is laminated inside the fin panel, I think it's a polycotton print.

[M0nsieurX]

It's all in the feel of the shape. You can feel it when caressing it... When you play pool, you can feel if a queue is right or not... Same thing here... You can also do a one sided mold and color mark where the two sides are not identical... Like a dentist blue strip bite mark... Then you can go out and test it a few times and sell, keep or throw away ;)

[surfboardrepairguy]

no gloves no shoes no mask wow what a bad idea oh and no power tools good luck with that and nice fin shape is that for a boat? not impressed old school oh and your supposed to glass it to the laminating coat (the fiberglass) ya!

[RoyStewart]

Not so the fin is set into solid wooden blocking glass on wouldn't be at all ideal, it makes a large inefficient fillet and wouldn't handle the power of a 14 inch fin. The fin is for a 17 foot olo board, and is an excellent well proven shape. Go back to fixing foam boards.

[boxoffluffys]

niceone

[RoyStewart]

Well it isn't really a how to make, moree of a watch someone making, anyway it's the biggest heaviest surfboard fin I have ever built, 14 inches deep, ten inches fore and aft and 7/8ths of an inch thick.... the claymore of surfboard fins.