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diggerdickson wrote:how many guys have ridden a twin fin with deep channels. Im thinking of building one in the near future for a mate who use to ride twinnies and use to ride channels in his thruster as well. The reason im thinking channels, and probably just four as four seem to suit a twinny. Im thinking the channels with give that little bit of an extra hold when you bury the rail. Im thinking the tail will either be a moon tail or a old bat tail as was done back by bill at Nirvana. Im also thinking of adding a moon fin as a trailer for just that little bit more hold. One because at my mates age of 50 we just dont have the flexibilty of our youth to be sliding the board around, plus we have just that bit more weight than our 16 to 20 year old selves. I wont run the middle set of channels out the tail, but the two side channels will run out the tail. The channels themselves with follow the toe and i will try to match the cant with the cant of the channel if you know what i mean. Im thinking flat deck, or if I can get a thick enough blank maybe even a slight concave deck. The bottom will run a slight single concave, by this I mean a beautiful subtle concave that then leads into the channels. So in efffect I will by trying to guide the flow of water down into the channels. I aim to keep as much foam as possible.

Not sure if it will work, though I would appreciate some feedback from anyone who has ridden a clinker style twinny. Did you like it. What fins did you have in them (one of the beautiful aspects of channels is that you can use a smaller fin, though im not sure if this would be the case with a twinny.). What was the placement of the fins. Im thinking six inches then fin up baby... though plenty of time for me to think about this.

Im still setting up my bay, got one shape to complete, then its twinny time. I have to get my op over and done with before I can shape as well.

Cheers guys. Hope all has been gettign some great waves

diggerdickson wrote:Hey scot, this guy making the big board twinnies has done something that I thought was possible, just that I dont have his skills, plus im not looking at a 7'10, im thinking from 6'4 to 6'6, plus as much foam as i can kept in the board though with deeper channels than what is shown in this board. Ive also had another thought in my mind as well, dont want to share that other thought till I make it as im not sure if I have the skills to do what i think needs doing. It will be great to have them both do a comparison when they have both been completed. I wonder how a eight channel twin would go rather than a four, for me six just feels not right, dont know why, just something in my gut tells me not six. Scot im still in the process of setting up the bay and moving very slowly on it due to my injuries. I will be shaping them from seconds blanks to keep the cost down, hopefully the blanks wont be to bad.

fin placement is possibly the most important factor on twins. I have heard of guys who put the base of the fin only 4 inches from the tail, something I need to research and think through. I do know I dont want to put in any breaks in the curve of the outline. Just make it with one beautiful curve without flyers or hips, just clean lines, nothing trendy, just clean.

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Thu Jun 22, 2017 8:41 pm

They are super sharp....as are the Al Merricks. Is this a quad thing?