This board is going to look beautiful when it's finished. I put the first finish coat on the top tonight. I'll leave that now for a day or two and then trim the flashing off. It has a bright pink sidewall which should hopefully look killer against that pine veneer. https://i.imgur.com/4kjmf4W.jpg As...

The topsheet side straight out of the press.
Another veneer inlayed topsheet. Local pine veneer and American Walnut for all the small pieces.
This is the most involved veneer inlay work I have done to date. Went quite well.

Pressed a new board for the missus last night.

The base straight out of the press, just before laying it over on its side for the night.

If I want to rip a bit off quickly I'll start with 40 grit, but usually I just start with 60. Then I use 100 grit to finish. I usually do a couple of boards at a time, or if I'm only doing one I use one of the old rolls that I keep depending on their sharpness. I find the garnet cloth dulls a bit ov...

A silicon sheet is something I have thought about before. Nothing really sticks to well to silicon so should work well. I nearly even made another silicon mat like my heat mats but without the heating wire. I'll google the sticky backed stuff and check it out. My veneers are just pure timber veneer,...

Most of you won't remember but ages ago I posted a picture of my homemade base grinder in another thread. Most people were skeptical at the time. Well it's still going strong. This old girl made from an old wood lathe I bought for $50AUD at a school auction. https://i.imgur.com/fkwejDD.jpg And it do...

Oh one thing I have been doing a bit differently lately is using a long length of non-stick Teflon sheet instead of baking paper. I've done about 10 boards with it so far and it works great. Dried resin just wipes off and it doesn't crease like baking paper can. I'm about to order another length and...

One new shape for me has been a short fatty snowboard. This one is a 152cm 308mm tip 263 waist 297mm tail. Birch veneer with a print to suit my mate Monkey who it was built for. It's mostly camber hybrid profile. The inserts are dead center of the camber and the waist, the nose rocker and sidecut ju...

Well I decided to start a new journal (the old one was Kampai custom). I've changed the name on the boards to WRONG Snowboards. The name is sort of a long story and was suggested by some mates. Things have been going pretty well. The homemade CNC has been working well and I can now go from a simple ...

Depends what you want it for but innegra might really fit your needs.
It is crazy light.

If you are talking about retailing a model of snowboard with different lengths then yes I think the smaller sizes need to be just a little bit softer than the bigger sizes as bigger people weigh more. But I think you will find the width difference will do most of that work for you. The same core dim...

The CNC is a lot of fun. More fun than when I used to run them every day for a living too. Here a new shape I'm getting right into at the moment. Got 3 of these to build. This is the first and the most basic of topsheets. It's hard to see in the photo but this is actually a black timber veneer. It h...

I've started finishing my sidewalls similar to falls. The last few boards I've done a 10° bevel then when i dress the 45° for the veneer i actually do it quite large so the top 2mm is at a 45° angle. Also just wondering if you are using a press or vac? And do you have heat mats? Its just that your v...

Nah i just stir the hell out it and pour it. If you have a degassing pot set up you could give it a go, especially if you are adding pigment, you can stir in the pigment to part A, degas, then stir in the hardener. I just mix pigment by eye, just keep it under 10% by weight of your polyurethane. 10%...

I do the same as vinman. Put a flat board in my press and put 3 or 4 base pieces in at once and warm them to 70°c for about 20 minutes then let them cool in the press. I only press that at half my normal pressure, just holds them flat. I find its totally important for drag knifing the bases as the p...