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On 6/11/2000 jo
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i dont know which catergory to post this on, but here's my question. i want to make my own longboard. and before i make the deck, im ordering/buying all the parts first. so ok, im thinking Randal R2s, with 70mm wheels, etc... how high of a riser pad would you guys recommend? my deck will not have cut outs or anything. thanks for your help...
jo
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On 6/11/2000 b-rian
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reminds me of back in the day when i took one of those shopping cart type wheels and replaced the front truck with it. sadly, it didn't work out. It was really hard to keep equal weight on each side of the wheel, and when you didn't, the board would hit the round on that side. Happy experimenting!
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On 6/11/2000
Ali
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All that silly stuff about Starwars got me thinking about a Y-wing shaped board. It would have one truck upfornt, and two in the back (one on each leg of the "Y").
I soon realized the Y-shape itself was not really useful, but the principle of a 6-wheeler might still be fun.
I'll call it a Delta-shape from now on.
I think the double set of trucks tailside would eliminate speedwobbles, while the single truck noseside wouldn't make it too difficult to turn (if you're a noserider, that is).
Does anyone if this will work? If I were to build a board like this, what trucks should I use in the rear (narrow, of course, but where to find them)?
Also, another idea was mounting two rollerblade wheels, fixed so no truck or something, in the back. Then, when steering, the outside wheel would lift. Would this work?
I don't think I'll be building either setup anytime soon, but I'd like to philosophize about it. Any thoughts on this?
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On 6/10/2000
hugh r
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Hey Erik,
Hit the yahoo.club "the homemade skateboard clinic"... there is a guy who posts there regularly who has lots of experience with the exotic building materials and is very willing to give advice... HR
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On 6/10/2000
erik
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Hi there,
I'm new to longboarding but am presently trying to construct my own board. I have, unfortunatly, little to no information about the best way of doing this and would apreciate any information on do's and don'ts. I have access to a large press, for the forming of the board, and was wondering whether to put somthing like cabon fiber or kevlar in a vein through it? Any info would be great,
erik.
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On 6/8/2000 Kanoa
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Check out Hugh's site under links, he has quite a few pics you can view of 8 wheelies.
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On 6/7/2000 Glen
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The 8 wheelers were just a lot of fun. It's like skating a longboard on vert or mini ramps, or surfing a longboard. You have to work the board more, move around shift fee, etc.
They're different and fun. I like the 4 wheeled variety better but they really can't be compared to each other. It's like mountain boards and skateboards. If you've never seen one, check out the video
http://www.creative-license.com/sap/8wheeler.mov
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On 6/7/2000
That Hella Hot Guy
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Hey i was just wondering what the point of an 8 wheeler is (i'm not trying to be an asshole). Is it really that much better than a 4 wheel? I've never seen one (besides pictures) so i don't see why they are so important.
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On 6/7/2000 Glen
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Sonny, buy some polyester resin and laminate the paper on. That or just paint the wood itself, then laminate it. It's not too hard to do, but you should do it to a board that you don't love the first time.
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On 6/7/2000
Sonny
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Needing some continuity in my life.... I decided to decorate my new skateboard in the same fashion as my surfboard. I took 4 8+1/2 x 11 sheets of paper and taped them together end to end. I then drew the shape I wanted on them (sort of a curvy sun ray type shape). I them cut the shape out. Then I spray painted the paper. I sprayed it red--yellow--red. The colors fade together. I was really impressed with my ability as this was my first time trying to "airbrush." I then put the sprayed shape down on another 4 sheets taped together. I drew an outline around the shape and cut that out. Then I sprayed that with black---silver faded combo. I clear coated both shapes. Then I taped the shapes together. I then glued the shapes to the deck and put clear grip over them. The only problem is where the shape meets the edge of the deck... I gotta seal that up so no water runis my art. Aside from some sloppiness with the drawing and cutting out of the shapes the thing looks damn good! I'll see if I can get a pic of it on the interweb somehow. If the design were to cover too much of the board... there would be problems getting it to stick. I'm relying on the grip tape to do much of the work.
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On 6/6/2000 Glen
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P.S. the 8 wheeler video will only be on my site for a couple of days. It will live at
http://www.sapskateboards.com
after that.
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On 6/6/2000 Glen
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I have a video posted on my web page of some 8 wheeler action. It was shot this last weekend at a SAP Skateboards demo. Tom Fain (ex-Sims pro, current SAP pro, and the guy in the Sims Snakes ad's of yesteryear) is the rider and maker of the eight wheeler. It's made out of an uncut oldschool blank.
He put ACS-500 trucks and some new rock hard wheels. One of the young kids onthe SAP team actually can Ollie, Shove-it and kickflip the thing. It's on video.
http://www.creative-license.com/sap/8wheeler.mov
Quicktime format
skate 8
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On 6/6/2000
dane
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Hey
I'm looking to get a longboard that feels just like a surfboard. Problem is I know nothing about longboarding. Also, I live near Chicago and theres not a lot of places where I can try stuff out, so I need some advice. What type of longboard and longboard set-up feels like a surfboard? Someone said that carve board sports makes a nice board with a surfy feeling, but that looks way bogus, with those big wheels and all, and the other thing I heard was that carver skateboards (not carve board sports) makes a nice board truck combination. Anybody know about these 2 companies, or have any other suggestions?
Thanks a ton
Dane
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On 6/5/2000 Kanoa
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Just finished the latest board! Check it out on www.home.earthlink.net/~starrovr it's the first one, I named it after a 1970's song by the Steve Miller Band "jungle love"
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On 6/5/2000
hugh r
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Hey Glen,
I would be more than happy to post those pix on my site. Also, how did the dump pix turn out? I have a few good ones that I will be putting up (my stinking cable modem kept cutting out today, or they would be done by now)
So shoot me over what you can, thanks, HR
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On 6/5/2000 Kanoa
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Pics Jonas pics, I can't wait to see the faces on the new schoolers when I tear up the skatepark on one of those!
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On 6/5/2000 Glen
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Jonas, get us some picts. I'd probably buy one.
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On 6/5/2000 Glen
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Tom Fain of SAP skateboards made an 8 wheeler and brought it to a demo this last Saturday at the Calvary Chapel Onterio skatepark. I video taped him doing an invert on a 4 foot 1/4 pipe and one of the team riders doing a kickflip and a shove-it on it. Pretty wild. I'll edit the video sometime this week.
Hugh would you want to post it on your site?
If not, I'll set up page on my business site.
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On 6/2/2000
Jonas
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I can supply 8-Wheel decks to those interested.They are not vintage, but are handmade birch decks with kick-tail and slight kick-nose.30x13.5" with 7" tail and 3.5" nose.$50+
shipping,unfinished and without truck-holes drilled so you can use whatever truck set=up you want.Pictures coming soon.
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On 6/2/2000
Jonas
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Glen,which 8-wheeler were you needing the dimensions for? One of the original "Outrageous 8-Wheelers I had a friend measure came out like: 29.25"long,13.5"wide,3"nose,5.8" tail. I have dimensions for my spec 8-wheelers also if you're interested.
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On 6/2/2000 Glen
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Fiberglass - yes, you can glass you wood first and then cut it out and sand. This is how the Libtech longboards seem to be made. The glass bond to the wood needs to be good in order to keep it from lifting. I do this and/or laminate a cloth to the deck before cutting it out, it makes production really go fast. If you want the rail to be protected though, you'll want to wrap the deck with glass, like a surfboard.
Anyone have those 8 wheeler dimensions?
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On 6/2/2000 paul d.
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when doing fibreglass, can i lay the cloth down first then cut
out the shape (and sand)? Or will the clothe become frayed
as i cut. i'm thincking of G&S, they do the glass first.
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On 5/31/2000 Glen
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can anyone give me the numbers on the Toft eight wheeler.
Lenght x width, numbers of plys, lenght of kicktail etc.
Thanks in advance.
Glen
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On 5/31/2000
hugh r
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Hey Fuzz,
You might want to consider building a deck with a spline down the underside. If you take a look at the VMG wood series boards, they use an aluminum piece to add quite a bit of stiffness to the decks. (My brother just picked one up and it holds his weight very well with almost no flex, aprox 260 lbs/ 118 kgs, I think that would be around 4032 stones?)
Anyway, I have built a couple with various plywood splines and they really help to remove the flex. I still have to work on getting them to look good however...
The concensous on plywood seems to be that the more layers of laminates, the better.
Have fun... HR
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On 5/31/2000
THANKFUL FUZZ
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Nice one RooX...
I'm off to the lumber shop...
Will post photos at various stages of construction.
Cheers mate,
Fuzz
xxx
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