riffclown Posted March 16, 2017 Report Share Posted March 16, 2017 So I've been having quite a bit of fun making kite tails into kites.. Many of you will recognize the first one.. Wanted to share a few others with you. Last one is still in work. Here are also the flying vids. Enjoy.. Let me know what you think.. .Joel, Darren Tibbey and Chook 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Tibbey Posted March 16, 2017 Report Share Posted March 16, 2017 9 minutes ago, riffclown said: So I've been having quite a bit of fun making kite tails into kites.. Many of you will recognize the first one.. Wanted to share a few others with you. Last one is still in work. Here are also the flying vids. Enjoy.. Let me know what you think.. Looks awesome. Great work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riffclown Posted March 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2017 Thank You Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Joel Posted March 16, 2017 Report Share Posted March 16, 2017 Nice! Looks like a heap of stitching to go in to those vs a standard sail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nigel Posted March 16, 2017 Report Share Posted March 16, 2017 Sweet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riffclown Posted March 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2017 11 hours ago, .Joel said: Nice! Looks like a heap of stitching to go in to those vs a standard sail. Never thought actual thread weight would be a factor 5 hours ago, nigel said: Sweet! Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riffclown Posted March 25, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2017 Latest build see the air.. Darren Tibbey, nigel, igeighty and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igeighty Posted March 31, 2017 Report Share Posted March 31, 2017 They look great. did you use adhesive to keep all your angles true ? its a great idea and they fly really nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riffclown Posted March 31, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2017 Thank you, I don't use adhesive per se.. I use masking tape to hold the shape while I sew like you would use straight pins for normal sewing.. No glue or seam tape has been used to date but I'm considering it for a current build which is of a different design..Outside of that this entire kite is shortcut after shortcut.. (And in all honesty, the angles aren't necessarily true, just "close enough") These kites fly better than they should given all the guesswork that goes into them. I'll chalk that up to luck and not skill. The design is very forgiving in the first place.. I have a few more experiments in "what can i do with just Tails?" planned before moving on to actual piecework.. The Only "not tail" material in any of these sails is the Screen which is regular door screen.. and one has a LE made out of a kite bag instead of a tail.. Most of the LE Sleeves are also the same tail material the kites are made from.. Caps bungees and Frames are either Rev, Freilein, Skyshark or FSD. Depends on the materials at hand when I build.. Not sure how much of the white I'll be keeping in this next one. The Brick pattern might be too prevalant. Planning a full sail instead of a mesh.. (actually hoping to get 4 full kites out of one 96' x 5" Transition tail. will stack them together if possible) These will probably use seam tape in an effort to keep everything very flat. will keep you posted.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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