New Project _

It has been an ambition of mine for some time now to put together my own carbon fiber fins for spearfishing that will be superior to the mass of fins currently available on the market. Buying carbon fins from a retail store can be misleading in the sense that you don't always know if you're getting a pure carbon fiber fin. Many brands often put layers on fiberglass in fins that they market as "carbon fiber" fins. I use Pierre Van Eecke fins made in Europe. To my knowledge the fins are made of 100% carbon fiber. They have served me very well and they continue to do so. 

I brought my desire to create carbon fiber diving fins to Kamanu Composites, and they have been supportive and helpful to me in my goal to create fins that will eventually be marketed through Kamanu as locally produced, carbon fiber freediving fins.

The R&D work to the fin has begun, a sample fin has been made, and I am working on a template in which I will use to cut the sample from.

I’ve been having a bit of trouble, getting the template to be symmetrical. I ended up folding the paper template along the length wise axis (y-axis) and then cutting it, so that both sides will be identical reflections of each other.

Comparing the carbon fiber blank to another fin

drawing a couple of possibilities for the template.