How to Shape & Make a Surfboard : How to Install & Place the Box Fins on a Surfboard

Learn how to install box fins on a surfboard and how to place them as well in this free how to video on making a surfboard.

Expert: Kimo Greene
Bio: Since 1967, Kimo Greene has been making surfboards and has gone through the full circle of surfboard design. He lives and surfs on Oahus famous North Shore with his family and dogs.
Filmmaker: kirk yliniemi

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• wax
• deck
• graphics
• used
• fin
• surfboard
• hybrid
• tide

[MrDwarfino]

can i ask 1 surfboard? please i want to learn. im from philippines and im poor i cant afford to buy 1 surfboard. can u help me pleasE? thnx

[emmecarr]

can u make me a surf board?

[madchuckera]

@hmoogler 100% true

[hmoogler]

Center skeg slides into the fin box full forward and back-off about an inch. Looser turning fin is forward. Never place the center fin full rear or cutting back will be difficult unless you are standing directly over the fin which isn't often...simple formula.

[Akablizzard]

what is the distance man? i'm from Rochester Ny, so i doubt i'll be any competition

[hmoogler]

Notice how this experienced shaper doesn't use the word "whatever" when discussing the fin placement and distances. It's not a "whatever" you like configuration, it's proven distances, all part of the bag of important 'secrets' of expert shapers. No doobie-logic here. No dumbing-down dogs.....!