: Good day all,

: I thought I'd share this fin, which although is a surfboard fin,
: I'd love to see someone put something of this shape on a kayak
: as a skeg. I liked it so much I may put one on Amy's SOF
: Greenland Kayak as a removable skeg of some sort. I took a
: picture with a grid in the background for anyone wishing to
: replicate it. Feel free to bastardize it for kayaks all you
: want.

: Really the main reason I'm posting it is because of the wood I used
: which I thought you guys would appreciate. The quilted maple is
: some "sinker" wood which around 100 years ago when
: they used to float logs to the sawmill this particular piece
: sank, and was reclaimed recently, resawn, and was being sold as
: a guitar back, but I made a fin out of it. Also used in the fin
: is some bubinga, wenge, and tiger maple. All but the tiger maple
: were also being sold as luthier woods but I had better ideas for
: it. I did buy two extra of the quilted maple which will actually
: become guitars like they were intended to be. The guitar top
: will have a sinker redwood top that I got a few years ago and
: have been letting acclimate to my tropical environment. That
: guitar will be called the "black pearl" and will have
: black pearl inlays with a pirate skull and crossbones. What
: better thing for wood that has been in Davy Jones' locker for
: 100 years?

: Anyway, it's cool wood and I thought you guys would like to see it.
: I should have spritzed it before the picture but you can imagine
: how amazing it's going to look when finished out. The fin is for
: a very special build I'm doing for Wood Surfboard Supply and
: Robert August- a copy of Robert August's "what I ride"
: board. I wanted to put a D Fin like he used in the movie
: "Endless Summer." I did a lot of research including
: freeze-framing the movie to get a basic idea of the shape, then
: came up with my own interpretation.

: http://www.schweizersurf.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3

: There's a pic there that shows the wood spritzed with alcohol. It
: just glows!

That's pretty cool looking wood Malcolm, where'd you get it?

Bill H.