nice one! love the blunt tip/tail!
are you doing 3/4 edge wraps?

never heard of that distinction. the stores i buy at call it all biax and just state the direction of the strands. There is no reason to use two layers of biax, unless that is the only way to achieve the correct weight that you are going for, or if the two layers are weighted differently on their ax...

are you going to use differently angled biax? if not, why are you planning on using two layers on each side?

twizzstyle wrote:

chrismp wrote:burton builds boards with concave bases. not specifically for powder though. they promote it as a catch free jibbing board.

Seriously? I would think a concave base would make it MORE susceptible to catching... a convex base might help?

whoops sorry...beginner mistake. of course i meant convex!

burton builds boards with convex bases. not specifically for powder though. they promote it as a catch free jibbing board.

yep, a laminate trimmer basically is a small router.
i've used a regular router to make this recess. i just drew a line one the sidewalls/core along the inner side of the edges and then routered along that line. i set the depth of the cut by trial and error using a scrap piece of sidewall.

yep, maybe you should get angled iron. we don't use any sealant at all and have leak-free bladders.
i guess that would also make for a cheap and easy fix.

the reason for making a recess in the core is to prevent the base from becoming slightly convex when pressing. many people here in the forum (including me) router out this recess, but i've also read about people who don't do it and still get a flat enough base. i don't think it makes the ski stronge...

Chris. Do you mean you used a very short length of large radius curve to meet the straight line for rocker, then applied a tip curve to the end? That makes good sense, best of both worlds. Montucky, is "booty" good or bad? I've not heard it before! yep, thats what i meant! sry for the con...

i used a straight line for my snowboard like you did in the second drawing...i used a small radius to get to the straight rise.

hmm, good question...never thought about it that way. capita uses biax top and triax base only on one rocker model. all the other with this glass combination are cambered boards. all their other rockers are just biax (one with only 15oz glass!). at k2 all the rocker boards either have equally strong...

alot of park specific snowboards use triax on the bottom layer and biax on the top to give the board more lateral flex and play. it make tweeked out nose pressing alot easier. examples? Just curious. capita does it: http://www.capitasnowboarding.com/tech (have a look at their fibreglass configs dow...

hmm, we've had a similar problem but only on the topsheet. we used normal paper printed with a laser printer that wouldnt stick to the topsheet. the rest of the board was fine though. maybe you didnt treat the sidewalls and tipspacers properly (sand + flame)...i've heard that even pre-treated abs or...

pics dont work mate...you have to be registered at that forum

do you use a heat curing epoxy?

where you from, btw? austria isnt that big...we might run into each other someday

we've built a cloth press using 5 hoses with about 110mm width when lying flat and 80mm diameter when fully inflated the press itself is only 500mm wide, so the two outmost hoses push the cloth away from the press. but imho that isnt a bad thing at all. it keeps the cloth from touching sharp corners...