I've built five splits now and standard insert spacing I use for my splits is 90mm across by 25mm between inserts. I usually go with 12 inserts either side (tip/tail) for a total of 24 for the pucks. This gives some room to move your stance around a bit. For the climbing insert spacing, buy your har...

But the lifts are still running for the next 2 weekends. Headed to White tomorrow unless Crystal gets a better dump. Game time decision. Looking forward to meeting everyone, hopefully we can make the 1st Annual PNW Builders Convention happen, even if it is just a few of us. If anyone is heading to W...

If it's just a proto, you can get away with a cheap belt sander and spray water after each pass with a bit of coolant mixed in. Better than nothing but its a pain in the arse so buck up the $25 and have your local shop hit it with their stone grinder. I have an old Grindrite now but I still take the...

How about a Sunday afternoon so traffic is light for everyone to get there. Ill throw April 26th or May 3rd out there for starters. Roanoke Tavern on Mercer Island is a cool place and shouldn't be too busy then. Great bar if you've never been there and they have a nice outdoor area if the weather is...

OK so it sounds like we have 5 or 6 of us interested so lets see if we can get something going. Mike when you in town? We need your expertise at this... how can we have the First Annual PNW Builders Convention without the Head Monkey? Just think, if this works, 5 years from now we'll be having it at...

Looks like its just the three of us so far. Twizz is in Kenmore, I'm in Fall City. Holm are you in Shoreline? If so, Kenmore area seems like a good place. Is the Tap Room still there on the Lake? Twizz do you know? I haven't been to Kenmore in a long time. Holm, did I ride up High Campbell with you ...

Goto Crystal Twizz! Ive been going there the last few Saturdays, the riding has been pretty good, even got some face shots down powder bowl last Saturday morning.

Not sure if this is the right forum to post this in so feel free to move it if it's in the wrong place... I was thinking of putting together a gathering of local builders in the Seattle area where we can all bring our proud and not so proud builds and show them off to each other and talk some shop o...

So I found a guy that makes 1/2" thick by 13" wide by 97" long vertically laminated bamboo core blanks down in Oregon. Im going to order up a couple and give them a try. Ill report back once I have them in hand and start working with them. Here's the website... www.nwbamboo.com Stay t...

Anyone know where I can get dimensional bamboo for cores in the Seattle area? I just found a place in Oregon that sells dimensional bamboo in 1/8" thickness and sent them an email so that may pan out (and Ill let you know if it does) but if there is something local that I'm not finding, please ...

I mix the epoxy then add a little teak oil to it and mix again then apply it first with a sponge brush to get a good coat on there, wait about 15 minutes then wipe it down with a smooth cloth. I haven't had any problems with water getting into the wood unless the sidewall gets cut (hence the lack of...

So we make our sidewalls currently out of maple and rub them down with a mix of epoxy and teak oil. Many of you are using plastic sidewalls (ABS, DuraSurf product or other). My question is what do you gain in using plastics sidewalls? In my opinion the bond breaks down over time between the sidewall...

[quote="Richuk"]M, It helps to distinguish between wood core and bamboo cores. Wood cores absorb an amount of resin, bamboo won't.

Ive been looking for some bamboo to try but this is interesting; if Bamboo wont take epoxy, is it worth using?

Id go a little farther and put your setback at 35-50mm for that deck. Its a true powder deck so give it a good surf stance.

What do you guys see as advantage of using spacers? I take my cores all the way to tip and tail and side to side, makes it allot easier to build and gives a really consistent flex.