my home depot board

Haha I have the feeling we are gonna start seeing homebrew surfboards in the water soon.

 

man the fins i give you a ton of credit for that fins are super hard

 

thanks man i think i may do it over spring break when i have some time. and good work with the fins, i would rather just buy some for all that

 

This is sick!!! Makes me want to make my own surfboard!! And I am a boogie!!! Really dope man, super impressed. Great job.

 

Once you've glassed a couple boards you have enough cloth scraps left you will easily have enough fiberglass to start making fins, and the resin tint makes really REALLY pretty fins. Making the futures fin wasnt that hard, and my guess is making fins with the fcs tabs cut wouldnt be any different, especially since with FCS the plugs have the angle, for side fins, not the fin itself if i remember right.

 

Why would your fins be any weaker than any other FCS fins...

Here are two futures trailer fins i made...a 3.5" trailer fin to loosen up a tri-fin fish and a 6.5" trailer fin to stiffen up a shortboard to hold in big surf...just for fun...i mean the cloth is all just scrappy corner pieces. 35-40 slivers of 4 oz cloth will be thick enough to foil out a fin.

 

thats what i figured you meant ...as long you build the fins with grain is vertical (running from the fin tabs up towards the tips) i think the wood design will be strong enough..i really dont think you need the reinforcement pins...

unless you surf like Occy....

 

Mitchell,

That's really cool! So those fins are just layered glass? Pretty awesome. BTW the new board rides great, feels really small but that could be because i was riding a bulky fish right before I tried it. The quad set up was way better than slipping in the center fin but that's no surprise since a 5 fin on anything but a bonzer is bound to be stiff. On the quad it was fast and loose.

 

yeah I tape wax paper down flat on a flat piece of wood to make a flat surface that the hardened resin wont stick to. You kick off about 1/2 cup epoxy resin and whatever pigment or tint you want to you and then wet out about 5 layers at a time, building up thickness, until you have a thick enough panel to build a fin. Then its mostly jigsaw and foiling work.

Nice to hear the new board is working...

 

Those fins are legit. Nice job!

 

would you ever consider making fcs fins?? and make them off other fcs templates... And best of all sell them!?!?!?!

 

Vent plug?

Hey man, the board looks great! What did you use for the vent plug? I was recently building and just finished a chambered wooden board and was debating what to use on a plug. I finally settled on a brass insert with a screw and washer. Just wondering if you had a better idea for you plug and where you got it from for my next board that I build. Thanks for the insight man.

 

naa..all my boards are futures and i just do it for fun and to see the effect different fins has on a particular board. its way too time consuming for even think about doing for $$

 

ya thats true.. Its sick how you can get the future fin box shape! You should post a thread on making fins one day...or the next time you do it
both yours and jay's fins are sick!

 

How are the oak fins? Pretty stiff right...too stiff?

 

how's that board holding up?

 

Jay, i followed your post on swaylocks. Good work, but i think you know why shapers charge the amount they do now right?

It looks like the hardest part of your job was making sure that both rails of the board are totally symmetrical right?