Glue $3.20, Balsa wood “free” from packing creates $0.00, EPS 2 lb blank…dirty old 10’2" in 2 chunks from craigslist price $10.00. Fiberglass to cover fin…leftover cut offs…lets say $2.00. Resin to lam up approx 1/2 pint…traded Keith some 3M tape and stuff, my cost $0.00
So far for all thats pictures…$15.20
Shape TBD, but board has custom 1 1/2 balsa stringer…and strange balsa optical enhanced cut away diaphram
Funny…thanks for the fin shout out…It didn’t start that way, it started out perfectly normal. But, But, But my dog got a hold of it…and started chewing it on the lawn. So with no lamination save in sight, I did the manly thing! I took the hole saw to it. Below is the K9 damage. Im too anal to just let it be…so I chopped out the damage and came up with the design.
I’ll post close up shots once installed and glossed up… I mean how close up do you want?
I often think back on mistakes and disasters that in the end, turn the project into something i never would have thought of on my own. I never get too stuck in my own vision, usually males for a bad day haha
Balsa packing strips?..I have a big pile of the stuff. Resinbutt (oops I mean Resinhead) got it from me. I got it from General Veneer in Los Angeles way back when…
More shamelessness…stealing rail contours…but then… if I own the board, it’s ok? I keep telling myself that…“hey resinhead, it’s ok to steal from other peoples hard work?” But then you’ll see they are true 50/50, maybe slightly pinched a tad. So I pinched the pinched.