There's still a bit of sanding, it's very hard to keep a very smooth flow and tension.
Any variation leaves slight ripples.

I use the same technique making fins, hold the mylar at the right angle and it can give a very nice foil.

The carbon over the top of the finbox went on today.
Not very complicated, but when Pete posts his pics, you should be able to see the chemi pen lines I used to locate the footstrap screw holes. I've used a pointed screw driver to find the holes, while resin is wet, so they can be drilled out after.

Saturday, added some bog.

There was a low spot, so marked it with texta and filled to it.

Sanded to rail.


Well it needed a bit more than this, I used the sanding block first, this is to get rid of the chamfers.

Forward to Monday.
Sanding low spot.
Don't tell Bugs, I used his "foam only" long sander to get the bottom nice and straight.

fin box top coat sanded.





Excess carbon removed and bog sanded back, not sure how Pete's going to handle this. Theres something about filling the wells so all his boards use the same size screws.
I guess we'll see in the future.

So Peter has the board on his car, my work is over.

A tack coat so I can see irregularities easier

Nice colour, it could look good in that.

Looking good, what's the weight of the finished board?

Some sanding today


Still have a low spot where the second layer of carbon ends















Marked the low spot for more filling.

Weighed the board as best I could and is approx 6.6 kg without straps.

so is that your, talcum and epoxy mix you're filling with?

It's very yellow Pete, is that just the resin colour, or haven't you got much qcell in?
But looking good, will be much kinder to your toes.
We just should have done it before that last layer of carbon.

Sanded the filler today and eliminated most of the gappiness that was spoiling my happiness time for putty and primer.
















a little vee at the back straps. Fairly flat forward to front straps

The nice work is yours Mike, I'm just doing the donkey work finishing up. Though I will take credit for my sign writing

Is it just the photo or is there a lot of tail behind the fin box?

The photo does exaggerate it a bit, but yes, it's further forward to get the ,center of lift of the majority of the fins, Pete will be using with it, under his feet. This means the fins don't need to be so far forward in the head, lessening the dreaded weed mustache.

looking good Peter

Added some more primer ready for a wet rob and some colour