|
|
|
| Home Made Boards (6188 Posts)
|
| Topic |
Home Made Boards |
|
|
|
On 7/1/2000
Jonas
wrote in from
(152.163.nnn.nnn)
Kanoa,the pic you are talking about looks to me like she's riding a Gravity Hyper-Carve that has the computer recessed into the deck above the front truck.As for the tail it's probably another Gravity accessorie,foam with adhesive.Solidskate.com sells both of those items still.
|
|
|
|
|
Lowered trucks?
|
|
On 7/1/2000 Kanoa
wrote in from
(38.29.nnn.nnn)
I keep seeing pics of trucks that look lowered, where the base plate looks like it's on top of the boards, like in the International Long Boarder Mag Vol 1 issue 4, center page W /Brickman on her Gravity and were did she get that screw in kick tail I want one of those. The big question is if this is the base plate one top of the board,how are they doing that?
|
|
|
|
|
Lowered Decks
|
|
On 6/30/2000
Hamm
wrote in from
(63.27.nnn.nnn)
OK, Hugh's trucks thru the top board has got me thinking(I know, scary concept). Suppose you had a thick deck you wanted to lower, say a 9 to 11 ply or solid wood deck. Maybe you could take a router and grind down the area where the trucks rest, leaving say 2 or 3 plys. Of course you would need some kind of mounting plate on the bottom(like Hugh's) to keep the trucks from coming thru the top of the deck. But I'm thinking that you could acheive the same or lower center of gravity this way for a thick deck as you have on a 2 or 3 ply fiberglassed deck. Hmmmm. I have a old Gravity Minicarve I might try this on.
Just an idea
Dave
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
On 6/29/2000
matthew reece
wrote in from
(202.7.nnn.nnn)
longboarding rips
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
On 6/29/2000
Fleet-of-Flow
wrote in from
(207.23.nnn.nnn)
Thanks for the suggestion herb. The missus almost killed me when she found the board sticking 1/2 in the oven. I .. I mean my friend just tried baking it with a blowdrier, this melted some of the crud, I scrapped it off and now I'm back down to glass again. It seems to be drying well. I put alot of sculpting into the tailblock so it was foolish to rush the process. Anyhow all is back on track and looking really good. Word to the wise.. when mixing different composites.. let them cure fully first!!!
Cheers,
Neil
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
On 6/29/2000 Herbn
wrote in from
(207.198.nnn.nnn)
Well 61.5 is really long and if that person cut off the tailbock the remaining board would still be pretty long.Well you (he)could actually use some screws to hold it in place while you(er you friend) finnishs up the rest of the board,sooner or later it will probabely dry,you could try baking it,low heat, but you(he) definitely want to vent or move your(his) oven outside:)not recommended.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
On 6/29/2000
Fleet-of-Flow
wrote in from
(207.23.nnn.nnn)
Hi everyone,
I have a hypothetical question. Let us say that when building a killer 61.5" longboard with tailblock, you expoxied the block. Then, because you were impatient and didn't want to wait the full 24 hour cure, that you decided to fibreglass over this (MEKP?? catalyst) to complete the next stage of fabric-inlay. Then let's say that the epoxy and the polyester resin didn't like each other and remained tacky. What, hypothetically, would you do? I'm just asking this on behalf of a friend...of course I'd never do anything this stupid. Cheers, -Neil
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
On 6/28/2000
DOOBIE
wrote in from
(207.205.nnn.nnn)
Kanoa kid- killer boards.
late
---DOOBIE
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
On 6/28/2000 Kanoa
wrote in from
(38.29.nnn.nnn)
just updated my site, started a tiled longboard, also added some pics of skate babes!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
On 6/26/2000
hella frog
wrote in from
(163.187.nnn.nnn)
to make a clear grip, use little salt put on a lay of vernish..then put another lay of vernish, and here it is..i made a 60" old schoold board with that and it works real well..
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
On 6/24/2000
that hella hot guy
wrote in from
(24.1.nnn.nnn)
Kanoa- That's awesome, it's exactally what i wanted to do, how did you do it?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
On 6/24/2000 Glen
wrote in from
(216.102.nnn.nnn)
for clear. Skip Engblom ( the Zepher, SMA, sakte guy ) told me to use surfboard resin and sprinkle sugar on it. It supposedly works better than silica sand and resin.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
On 6/24/2000
Andy
wrote in from
(205.188.nnn.nnn)
Can anyone tell me where to get a clear, liquid grip tape product like what is used on Barfoot, Noll and some other decks?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
On 6/24/2000 Nick
wrote in from
(210.55.nnn.nnn)
Nev, got the risers.Thanks heaps man.I put them on my homemade gravity style deck and it carves primo.I,ve been riding the local hill just about every night since.Cheers.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
On 6/24/2000 Kanoa
wrote in from
(38.29.nnn.nnn)
Oh yea, I'm working on a snake skin one right now I'll post it as soon as it's done.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
On 6/24/2000 Kanoa
wrote in from
(38.29.nnn.nnn)
Hey Hella Hot check out the leopard board I made on my web site ... home.earthlink.net/~starrovr you'll like it!!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
On 6/22/2000
That hella hot guy
wrote in from
(24.1.nnn.nnn)
OK, a few questions today. Does anyone have any experiance with Fir? i have about 6 1.5 by 7 sheets and was wondering if it was good. I don't think, it's plywood, but i dont really know too much about wood. How can i tell if it is plywood? does it just look like it is layered? Another thing, how do you get fabric on the deck? I read that in a previous post and found it very interesting. Does it have to be a certain kind of fabric? My last question is how would i go about putting leapord print on the bottom of my deck?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
On 6/22/2000 nev
wrote in from
(12.72.nnn.nnn)
nick did the stuff arrive in the post???
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
On 6/22/2000
DOOBIE
wrote in from
(209.138.nnn.nnn)
NICE BOARD GLEN!!!
Has anyone had experience with the Mr. M's make your board yourself? the webpage is http://members.cruzio.com/~sc58/
he seems like a nice guy, and look at the pic @ the bottom of the page for the longboard template. he says it is 10 ply birch, is this good? thanks
---DOOBIE---
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
On 6/22/2000
hugh r
wrote in from
(205.216.nnn.nnn)
Hey Glen,
Nice job on the laminate... very interesting way of beautifing a deck. It has given me some ideas myself.
I have posted some pictures of Glens deck on my page, under the homemade vistors board section. Hit my page off of the NCDSA links page... HR
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
On 6/21/2000 Glen
wrote in from
(216.102.nnn.nnn)
a discovery in todays work.
After my scraps of glass and fabric and epoxy had dried, I pulled on a hunk of glass that had stuck to a piece of wood. The glass tore nicely. I did the same to the fabric and it was really tough to tear. The fabric with its tighter weave, seems to be much more resistant to tears which would seem to account for the added torsional stiffness I gained, that normally doesn't seem to change much with just plain glassing.
The piece of fabric also had a bit better memory when I bent it in my fingers, than did the fiberglass.
Not scientific but interesting.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
On 6/21/2000 Glen
wrote in from
(216.102.nnn.nnn)
I finally made a decision about which deck to get. I had a Gravity Jeff Budro model which I've ridden at skateparks for the last 4 months and it had finnally given up, losing a lot of it's stiffness and flexing torsionally a lot. It was funny, I was tightening my trucks on the competition halfpipe because I thought they were wobbling, it was the deck. I was getting board wobble. I have been trying to figure out what deck to get. I love the way the Budro rides, but am always looking for something new. I deceided today to give my Budro a face lift. I removed the griptape, cleaned of the grip goo, sanded, the bottom paint off and began my work.
I took a vintage looking hawaiian print fabric and a layer of 6oz triaxial fiberglass and glassed the bottom with West Systems Epoxy resin. I then put two coats of 6oz tri-axial glass on the top and Epoxied them. After a little sanding, hey, it's a skatepark deck, the bottom will be trashed after a couple of rock'n'rolls and the top will be covered with grip tape, it was ready for tape and testing.
It is now stiffer than when it was new, that's good for pools and vert, and has much less torsional twist, and instead of having a cartoony robot space war graphic( didn't dig that part much anyway ), I now have a classic hawaiian print.
I'm stoked, it took about 3 hours total time, $7.00 worth of glass, $3.00 of fabric, $7.00 of grip tape and $8.00 of epoxy. I have a better deck than I started out with.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
On 6/21/2000 Herbn
wrote in from
(207.198.nnn.nnn)
Camber is the upward bend in the wheelbase of a deck, a cambered board could be stiff,camber starts the trucks out at a shallower turning angle (than a flat board would)and the geometry gets steeper as the board flexs,this happens with all decks and truck combos.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
On 6/21/2000
DOOBIE
wrote in from
(209.255.nnn.nnn)
Thanks Adam and HR... I was actually thinking mor towards glasing the decks and using less ply's, my dad has alot of experience glassing and I have a little from soap box racing and repairing surfboards...I designed a secret way to make boards with an adjustable camber(is that the word for flexyness?)...I think it is going to work and will do more research on this and develop a prototype...but it looks like a prototype is all I'll be able to make this summer, before school, as I'll be down in JAX filming some at KONA skatepark... excellent skatepark... where should I get some excellent glass? I was thinking boat places... If I were still in JAX, I would know where to go...but I don't know the area very well out here in KC...
Thanks for the help
---DOOBIE
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
On 6/21/2000
ROGÉRIO "SAMMY" BRAZIL
wrote in from
(200.245.nnn.nnn)
What's up Guys!!
What all the Guys think about new tendencies in longboard "Pool riders" Who is the best deck for to use in pools bowls and parks. In my opinion the good deck needs have 40 inches per 8,75 .. Now in brazil the guys playing with this board .
Please send me more opinion about 40 inches deck.
|
|
|
|
|
