Richuk wrote: I was assuming the sidewall material is relatively hard/dense and some of the stringers are softwood?

sidewalls are abs all the rest is ash...we ll see

it s concave. if its something with core density it would have turned out convex i guess. bases are relatively clean, very thin coat of epoxy. the cassette is 1mm stainless steel, yeah maybe the mdf mould has some concave spots...i m just wondering because the concave is relatively constant over the...

i just finished a pair of skis, so i went to switzerland (davos) today to let them grind and trying them out tomorrow. thw ski servioce stations sent me away because my bases were bend in latreral directions. the guys told me that their grinding stone would be sealed by the massive abrasion. he chec...

i had only a single piece top-mould, i divided it now into two equal pieces and hang it up on skateboard wheels. the top-mould is now easy to adjust, the gap between the two pieces is filled mdf scrap. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-hsA-7-N_Z8M/TuZ9WHNQ--I/AAAAAAAAAaA/SqDlrD4wCz8/s800/IMG_0119.J...

endre wrote:neodym magnets like this one with a hole for marking the spot

and the magnet hole is always centered exactly to the hole of the insert?

im looking for an approved method to find inserts in skis or sonwboards again after pressing. with my first tries i ended up measuring out the inserts in the ski, didn t got them with the first drills. took me 3 tries to find them :? i know that some inserts are plastic capped and filled with (magne...

i did my moulds in 38mm mdf, we machined it in 3 or 4 passes. the router (8-10mm i forgot)wasn t too sharp, what resulted in a little bending of the router where hitting the material, 0,05mm, not a lot, but noticable. 1/4" router and 25mm mdf - at least 5 passes!? and slow feed rates 1-2 meter/...

i did my moulds in 38mm mdf, we machined it in 3 or 4 passes. the router (8-10mm i forgot)wasn t too sharp, what resulted in a little bending of the router where hitting the material, 0,05mm, not a lot, but noticable. 1/4" router and 25mm mdf - at least 5 passes!? and slow feed rates 1-2 meter/...

MadRussian wrote: how could I missed it on 1:23 in kingswood video you can clearly see shop-vac attached to the table

by the way, he is using a heavy duty festo shop-vac (1200W max / 3900l/min / 24000 Pa pressure)

below you see my vacuum set-up for routing cores and sanding them. i started with a normal vac-cleaner like everyone has. by chance i got a festo vac, industrial quality, the core-hold is a little tighter, but both works fine. im doubting that you will succeed with a vac-pump, without spending a lot...

oh yea...precondition for this easy going is that the wood is dry (less than 13% water i think), i forgot to mention.
thx guys

I wouldn't be overly concerned if this is your first board. right! if your wooden board has no knots (and ideally vertical grains) you can use it as it is. glue adds nothing but weight. there are hundreds of issues occuring once you started, and they might worry you more than the grain. ;) once you...

how could a workshop where dust and dirt occur while machinig the materials be so clean!??
shiny spots on every machine... you really use them?

thanks for the wiki-input!

I use my vacuum cleaner to hold the core down -> http://www.raget.li/?p=42 Air volume is more important than the effective vacuum. thats the way you go. i m using a mdf board with some air-channels. a festo vacuum cleaner attached, holds the cores that you need force to pull them of. i started with...

i do router bridge with sidewalls always attached. it s important to hold the router stabile that it does not do any unpredicted movements and second, the most import: never route sidewalls in the oppsoite direction of your router, always go with it. otherwise sidewalls pop of. routing wood go in th...