FCS Twin Fins - Oak/EP - Speed Dialer copy - UPDATE

Excellent weekend of testing, surfing and constructing.

The short list;

1. finished and tested the FCS speed dialer fins (see below)
2. fit (2) new FCS plugs on a customers hybrid OZ fish
3. (2) structural ding repairs on the swallow tips of the OZ fish
4. sanded and prepped (3) structural dings on a Rusty Surftech Gun
5. surf'd our brains out on a fast, rock reef point (8-10FT swell)
6. started work on a customers 5'10 Firewire - Sweet Potato copy (see below for teaser)

The Five Lab is booming! with more and more work coming in everyday.

Lots of exciting things in the works for FIVE - New blog site to go up in a few weeks, product photo shoot is booked and a surf safari essay with WATERSHOTS and hand drawn surf map

Thanks goes out to all of you dedicated lake surfers

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Out of the vacuum and ready for prep sanding and hotcoat.

hotcoat

wood grain

ready for finish sand and polish

hotcoat 2.0

ready for finish sand and polish

mounted and ready for a surf (5'10 Retro Fish pictured)

moments before they hit the water.

Fun 3FT day with only two of your buddies out at a local spot (only 5 mins from the FIVE lab) makes for a wonderful session - let alone when you get to surf a brand new (to you) board and fins with the water is still nice and warm!

Fin Report:

Good - Fast, loose and positive flex out of turns (a good thing).

Bad - scared to surf them in anything over 4FT as the wood core used for the tabs is questionable.

Next time - great template, excellent graphics but need new mounting system (ie: carbon fiber roving/poles drilled into core, then solid epoxy tabs generated by mold.

Thanks

Five Boys'

Teaser - new customer board:

5'10" Firewire Sweet Potato copy - 2LB EPS/custom Poplar stringer