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Brazen wrote:I know it LOOKS crazy, but it works so great...and the deer head? Well, you know...

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hey Brazen, what is it, soft pvc?

got it now,
thanks for the numbers!
and for the "quick dwg" too, very usefull indeed

twizzstyle, tahnks i trade it with your red one plus a makita thicknesser anytime under one term: you send me your ear defenders too, you would'n need them anymore anyway! LOL you are right, steel is the way to go with it i have something in mind to allow wet sanding on that ply frame, not sure it w...

Richuk, in the last picture, the dark strip to the left of the edge is just a gap and shadow? or there s something after the washer, i cant see it clear

did you find what allowance for expansion you need?

thanks, 430 is a tad heavier than the ones i have
the dried poplar i am getting is quite lighter, sometimes below 350kg/m2
i guess it is a different specie or cheaper wood from fast grown trees

i favor spruce as i have plenty of low quality 3x5cm drying in my balcony strong and smelly hard to find clean planks without any nodes though once i left a spruce kiteboard in the car under full summer sun for a day and the next morning a teardrop of wood resin appeared on top of the top skin just ...

From what I have heard Paulownia have much better strength then balsa, but is still very light weight. Some say that it has the best specific (/density) mechanical properties of any wood. i was looking for paulonia wood (kiri) in the local market without any luck, few years back when it came big in...

Ricuk, impresive work as always
is that ply runing around the tip and tail too?

never tried that glass i use rg products and they are top quality though right now i have 5 lit of their resine seating next ro me a cheap way to reduce weight in a kiteboard is to skip some plastics (topsheet and pe base ie) and a couple or 2 of inserts you ll easy end way lighter than the industry...

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cool, thanks
that remind me that fins used to hang to the side of some tails

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thanks guys skidesmond, yes, bindings! i wake up this morning with the will to restore, rip off skins, put inserts, relaminated and take the fish to the hill now that will be a laugh i dont know how to save the graphics though, i think they are part of it anyway, it brought back so many memories tha...

it http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/1299/p1010077resize.jpg has waited 21 years for a base grind 167cm with 2cm tapper it s my 2nd board, build it with a mechanical press in highscool days, 1989 christams (the first one was plain plywood hot waxed allover, base, top, sidewalls and had rubber strap...

this year's present to myself was supposed to be a thicknesser christmas found me totally broke so i kissed goodbye the Makita haunt, mulled and bitched and decided to build a drum sander for the new years good the idea grew along with the ambition that the drum can grind wood as well as ptex voila ...