Board Builders

@dude, http://www.styromax.com.au/ this is the company i got mine off(FOAM)

ok, what width did you go. and as dumb as this sounds, how do you actually buy it? theres no button... :'( and sorry everyone for clogging this forum

@dude, you have to email them and ask about buying some of their (dow foam) it comes in sheets of 2400mm by 60mm i think, i got mine cut into 4 pieces so thats 4 different molds. hope that helped 

this is my first ever home made board finished yesterday

Nice work Alex.

sick board, congrats

So dudes as it happens, my school is making a longboard club, you know like a science club...
they are gonna get kids to pay for the materials and make boards, they came to me and asked 400 questions becasue im making a board for my hsc.

so i come to you with a couple..

what would be the best vineer to make a 7-8 layer generic board?
what would be the most cost effective way to press or build boards?
what glue would be sufficient?

thanks

For my HSC i'm building a board for myself, i already have some help with the build of the board thanks to Adam.
but i was wanting to build a press like this \/\/\/\/\/\/
im wondering if anyone has used one? what wood willl be the best to use?

cheers dudes

so here are the 2 homemade boards along side my daddow praxis really stoked with these 2 boards they ride amazingly, the one in the middle really is amazing at downhill through the turns and it really feels good underfoot, the one on the right loves to slide and is my fav freerider now (still have to say though that the praxis is by far and away the best DH board i have ever ridden). Anyway thanks to everyone who gave me advise while i was aming them in particular Deeks63 has been very helpful

Cheers  

no probs Alex!

I've laminated cross layers together before...  made two cross lkaers out of 4 small sheets before without a problem - i use a vaccum press to make my boards - not sure what you're using.

I simply made sure the edges were nice and straight (and square) and ran a bead of glue along the edges, used masking tape to hold them together, and put them under something heavy for 12 hours - worked perfectly!

BTW - where did you get your Hoop Pine veneer from!  desperatley trying to find a good source of the stuff myself!  Deeks

sorry to spam you with responses, but i wouldn't get too hung up on alternating grains too much - I only ever put in 2 cross-bands with my decks - so the are

3-long

1-cross

1-long

1-cross

2-long

I assume (using Hoop Pine) you're gonna reinforce with glass or some such weave?

Plyco - cool, I have them on my list of places to check!  thanks. (I'm in Melbourne too)

that's 9 plys which should be plenty if it's 1.5mm veneer - I only use 8 with mine because I always glass/carbon fibre the bottoms (virtually the 9th ply) and they're plenty strong - I'm 95kgs and no issues at all

This is my last board made this way http://www.skateboardracing.org.au/photo/carbon-kevlar04?context=user - you can see the two cross plys clearly

ooooh.. I see your dilema now (would help if i read it properly!) - not enough longs...

if you had one more long it would be no problem :(

With ply you don't need any crossplys, its already built in, just lay up every sheet with the grain :)

True Steve.. but I understood Holden's initial comments to indicate he had veneer...

if it's PLY, then as Steve says - lay-away!!

Just make sure you use the longs on the outside,

llcccccll or lclccclcl

too many cross its going to be flexy

You want the long on the outside where it'll do the most work for you

Think I beams, hollow bones, trees that still stand with the middle rotted out etc

and with 1.5 I reckon you can get fairly complicated forms

Its most likely not the valve. If you have done the cardboard and sprayer or bathtub thing and you have taped up all the holes, its more likely to be your sealing tape, especially if its a bit dirty. I can give you some. PM me the width of your bag and your address Holden

the Carba-tec stores around Australia stock the stuff...

http://www.carbatec.com.au/

Deeks

this has nothing to do with longboarding but does anyone know what sort of glue or what i should do if i am gluing 30cm wide sheets of pine together that are 6ft long and that would be strong enough to go in water

Titebond III or Epoxy.

what sort of epoxy

West systems 105 (and 205 hardener) is good...

hey dudes finally got some foam and glue, got a quote for a boards worth of hoop pine and it was $80! is this normal? thanks agaiin brahs

or is marine ply cheaper? thanks

thanks and sorry im about to order some hoop pine would the 3mm be able to do a gradual drop? i was hoping for 2" but thinking maybe just 1" until i get some veneer. and also im 55kg im wanting a stiff deck would 4 layers of 3mm be good?

finish my custome, 14 plys of silver ash veneer , thin and rather light

dfga

thanks man , i did them with a router

yeah took me a lot practice to be able to use the router

Nice work Rory.

Great foam core tutorial series http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6jfr_IFz2E&feature=related

Hey guys, need to find some better wood to work with, whats the best wood and also you know of any places where i could get it? i live in NSW by the way

Hey Alex, you seem to know a lot of questions about board building and as I am new to it I would like to ask a few questions but I don't want to clog up this discussion with silly questions, mind if I message you a few questions on facebook?

clog away Conrad.. thats what the group is for...

When i fibre glass a board, should i cut around the edges when its still wet, or wait and cut with a jig saw? I tried with a jigsaw and the up and down motion of the saw ripped away the fibreglass :(

there's a couple of ways - I actually find it's easier to trim close to the board shortly after the resin/epoxy has just hardened but not gone rock hard - say within 30 to 60 minutes of applying.  Use a sharp stanley knife - almost like when you grip a board, but don't try and cut right up against the wood/ply.  then once it's gone off completely, use a sander to take it back nice and neat...  The jigsaw will just rip the shit out of it as you have found.

Thanks! I will try it out on my next build

Alexander, I have recently bought some 14mm ply from bunnings, how do i put w concave in it? and do you recommend using a stanley knife or a spoon to cut away the fibreglass?

14mm? w concave dude that aint never gunna happen w concaves are formed with very thin veneer sheets in a vacuum press. 14mm ply probably wont even form a concave u need to get thiner sheets and press them together and yes definately a stanley knife 

when do you use a spoon to cut anything??

smells like troll in here...

sorry another thing 14mm is the average thickness of a board a 14mm ply sheet has been made to be solid in a FLAT form not bent and warped. Yes its made of thinner sheets its self but in all likelyhood it wil snap during pressing or the first ride you take on it. get yer self some 4mm or 3mm hoop pine from bunnings from memory its $32 for a 1.6m x 2.4m sheet i got 2 boards out of one sheet.  

me thinketh the piss is being taken...