FP 8 Laminating a wooden longboard fin from paulownia

http://www.olosurfer.com

Building the 13 inch Spitfire fin for the Future Primitive. This fin is laminated from 7 layers of 3mm Paulownia planks and glassed with cotton cheesecloth. Music is 'Fires of Ork' by Pete Namlook
http://www.olosurfer.com

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• wooden
• surfboards
• wood
• surf
• woodworking
• surfers

[shaperkahuma]

WONDERFUL MAESTRO!!!!!

[RoyStewart]

@shaperkahuma Thanks ! :)

[RoyStewart]

Hi, are you wanting a wooden fin with a fibreglass layer through the centre ?

[8ill]

Hello Roy ,your boards are laminate with fiber or you just use varnish or use some epoxy resin direct on wood.

[RoyStewart]

The panels are laminated using epoxy resin and wood fibre, the boards are inished with clear epoxy resin usually with no structural cloth.

[RoyStewart]

Cheers Jac, I agree it's kind of primitive feeling but not primitive in reality, something like that.

[VolkgartenBySquirrel]

I am really loving your done it!

[lauchawas]

hey, can you tell me how to build a finn for a shortboard? I want it with a centre of plastic and after that a laminated layer. Please tell me how to do it. Thanks

[ElRosado]

I love the shape man. It looks like an Aztec hatchet. I put together a parallel profile fish and really learned a lot. Almost every step I was thinking to myself, "so that's why he does that."

I don't think people really understand what you are doing with your shapes. But your building style has this romantic low tech aboriginal feel to it that really catches my interest. Your stuff is anything but low tech. You make me think hard about what I am doing when I make a board.

Jac