Dryer Sheets for Fin Backing?

Your fins are wavy because you aren't sealing them with lacquer before applying your flexitive. I'e used used dryer sheets in a pinch but they're not the best. Lens cloth, silkspan, Vail cloth all work well. Tacky glue and water work, as well as modge podge, tuf-fin, and clear caulk.

 

I use poster board, the stuff that is cream color, shiny one side, flat on the other along with contact cement. Then build up with a good fin cream. I know, you can't see through it and you will never win a competition using it, but you will not get the curling that you get over time using the other methods and the fins can be painted to look transparent. I think this method is ok for commercial mounts.

 

For commercial work I use fiberglass cloth and resin you can still see though them and it's not going to curl works good on one that going on the wall cause more than likely it's going to get the fins hit on something sometime or another

 

I really hate wasting my time with any of that stuff so I use reproduction fins on 98% of my work but every now and then a client wants a real fins and I don't do nothing but use modge podge on them , no backing really needed

 

Tuff fin wil not curl the fins, and drier paper works fin. Works great on splits. Quick set, one minute epoxy on both sides of the fin usually prevents curling as well.

 

Tuff-fin will absolutely curl fins if they aren't sealed. It will rehydrate them and you'll have issues.

 

I’m with Frank on this, much better results casting your own!

 

taxidermy net.........confusing beginners for years. I have had conversations with a man who would know.....Gene Hallet. While there are some water molecules in Tuff Fin, only a fraction of what is in Mod Podge, Elmers, library paste. If spread on a fin accroding to directions, thin and both sides at once........here is the result. No Curling! So Slabbandit, believe who you want. The water molecules leave Tuff fin bery quickly and there is little time for rehydration.........assuming the fins are dry. Cole just still loves to bust my chops. I say Marco, he will say Polo. Talk to Gene Hallet at GNS Legacy.

 

I back with surgical tape and then go over it with McKenzie Fin Flex which is a latex product.