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PRESS PICS!

post some nice pictures of your press, be it Ghetto style or Dimm style, they all rock!

here is my ghetto press from making my slalom board

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Permalink Reply by Ryan 'RY RY' Peterson on March 2, 2010 at 7:15

http://dklongboards.com/
is dmitri's website.
http://vimeo.com/5084011 is how to make a dimm press.
he also made the music in the video.
this guy is super rad!

Steve said:

Nice shape! You might have a few problems with that dropthrough cutout. Mainly the thickness of the neck. I would try and keep the width above 100mm for drop throughs. Press worked well too, sweet.

Adam ghetto press is just using anything to get the board pressed. A Dimm press is really just another name for a male/female foam mold press. Dimm is a guy on silverfish who did a video tutorial on making presses like this and the name stuck

Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Adam on March 2, 2010 at 9:03

mate looks sweet, make sure you don't get bummed if it breaks or some thing just build again and make a few changes, ask steve heaps of questions he is onto it (sorry steve), mine is still in the press had soooooo much rain in the last day or two i'm gunna leave it longer as the glue is still tacky around the edges of the ply and i'm wanting to make sure it's fully gone off.
What width ply was that. 4mm????
@ steve Cheers for the heads up on the press types, i guess mine is an adam pess cause i have not seen anyone else make one like mine,

Alex said:

the board of my 'baby' haha, jack is graphing it now so i'll put picks up when that is done aswell

Permalink Reply by Alex Schulze on March 8, 2010 at 14:02

MY NEW TOOTHLESS PRESS, seeing as i couldnt find foam for a dimm i used timber instead, btw the board thats in the press is 3 layers ply 2 layers fibre glass

Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Matthys on April 17, 2010 at 10:38

heres me press.. its mdf and ply...

Permalink Reply by Ash on April 17, 2010 at 11:02

holy concave batman!!!! your going to need to mellow that out a bit dude.

Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Matthys on April 17, 2010 at 17:08

ye, i know, its extreme, tho the rider likes that gnarly ammount of concave... we changed it up for the last three boards and it only has about 15mms of cave now..

Permalink Reply by Alex King on May 20, 2010 at 16:37

hey man just thought i would say that fibreglass in the middle of the board is not as good as on the outside. fibreglass is stronger in tension then it is in compression and so having the glass on the bottom gives you the most strength. i find that fibreglass sokes up a bit of the epoxy and just epoxy as glue works best.

Alex Schulze said:

i used epoxy for my first long board, it works great, as a finish and base, i recommend fibreglass as well, adds alot of strengh to it all

Dylan Danger Batty said:
well i used 3mm pine from bunnings, PVA wood glue, but for my next pressing im gonna experiment with epoxy and i think i used 5 bits of ply to to make it...
Myles Borchardt said:
Where did u get the pieces of ply from, is it birch? cause my next project im using the exact same method, just having trouble tracking down the wood. Did u use PVA wood glue? i heard that works best, and how many ply did u end up using? looks like u done a good job of it, i don't think i wuld have that many clamps

Permalink Reply by Alex King on May 20, 2010 at 16:39

how do the trucks go on that???

Matthys van lille said: