I have my profiling process down to about 20 minutes per core for snowboards. I use a 13" planer with a long jig that we made with 5.5mm of rise on one end and pull 1/2 mm per pass. This lets the wood bend down into the jig as it thins out. Our boards come out pretty nice with this method but w...

We're off and rolling this year, prepping cores, bases and designing some new graphics. Just ordered up some of the new Duravision topsheet from Crown Plastics to give it a try and ready to go to the next level. After 4 years of solid building, 27 boards done, and 3 years of product testing, we're r...

Release wax works great. Been using it for about 4 years now. You can get it online at tap plastics or at your local store if you have one. Slop it on their pretty heavy and you shouldn't have any problems getting it out.

Hope you all had a good season, just cleaned the shop and getting ready to build some boards for this year and I'm curious about using some different materials. Planning on making a few of the All Mountain boards with the standard core setup (poplar/aspen with oak sidewalls) but looking to add somet...

Were not quite ready to start selling our boards yet but thought I ask to see if anyone is interested in purchasing some cores, built to your specs? We typically build ours from 1" wide strips of poplar, using ash stringers and plane them to 7mm. Strip size, material and thickness can all be ad...

Thanks, Ill give it a try. Ive been using foam PVC or wood for my sidewalls so far because they are easy to bond together. The foam PVC is a great material to work with and very water resistant but it isn't that strong and gets damaged easy especially in the lift line when everyone is jockeying for ...

Never met Josiah, Ive seen some posts from doughboyshredder. And yea, Im up at Alpy all the time, lets hook up one of these days and take some turns. Good to know there are other builders close by.

I use 20oz triax on the bottom layer below the core and 17oz biax on top of the core with a 6oz eglass as my topsheet, that's what I've been going with on my last few all mountain boards and it has been working pretty well. Haven't tried using triax on top yet but after reading the posts, Im gonna g...

Im trying using some durasurf sidewall material and I have tried every glue I can find (including epoxy) to get it to bind to the core but it just peels right off. What is the trick? Does it need to be flamed first before gluing?

OK, guess Im either worthless at using forums or just not cool enough yet cause I keep getting errors. Anyway, we are making boards up in Fall City, Wa. under the name Chair2 Snowboards, inspired by all of you that build out there and learned everything from your great instructional websites, readin...