snowboard
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snowboard
The first board since the big one I made with Idris this winter.
The idee is a 172 wide and stiff allmountain board.
Tip/tail:324
waist: 269
fircore, no sidewalls, p-tex tipspacers
Looked around in the stack of wood at my dads farm and found some slowgrown fir planks with allmost no knots. they were 22mm so alot of wood to remove...
Cut strips and planed the edges with a handheld planer turned upside down
glued and clamped
planed it down to 9mm
made rails for the router, threw away 3 pairs before I was happy its hard to cut straight with a jigsaw...
the tail came out great, started with the nose all exided, thinking this is easy. Working fast untill I hit something hard... the cheep f***ing router did'nt keep the depth, I was cutting in the worksurface.
Kicking and screaming for a while.
Nothing more to do then scramble in the woodpile again.
This time i found spruce and birch.
Starting all over but with a different idee of core
Birch on the edges and two strips in the middle to hold the inserts.
working on a farm in time of harvest, just waiting for a rainy day...
The idee is a 172 wide and stiff allmountain board.
Tip/tail:324
waist: 269
fircore, no sidewalls, p-tex tipspacers
Looked around in the stack of wood at my dads farm and found some slowgrown fir planks with allmost no knots. they were 22mm so alot of wood to remove...
Cut strips and planed the edges with a handheld planer turned upside down
glued and clamped
planed it down to 9mm
made rails for the router, threw away 3 pairs before I was happy its hard to cut straight with a jigsaw...
the tail came out great, started with the nose all exided, thinking this is easy. Working fast untill I hit something hard... the cheep f***ing router did'nt keep the depth, I was cutting in the worksurface.
Kicking and screaming for a while.
Nothing more to do then scramble in the woodpile again.
This time i found spruce and birch.
Starting all over but with a different idee of core
Birch on the edges and two strips in the middle to hold the inserts.
working on a farm in time of harvest, just waiting for a rainy day...
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Biltema router
See you are using a "biltema" router, and i was wondering how it works?
Not everything from Biltema is long lasting things, but it's cheap....
Not everything from Biltema is long lasting things, but it's cheap....
Martin
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well it cuts pretty good but for some reason the depth adjustment changed while routing so i ended up cutting thru the core.
i will give it a second chance before it goes in the trash, if i screw it harder (with a pair of pliers) it might work
it was 20eur or something so if it keep the depth its well woth the money.
i will give it a second chance before it goes in the trash, if i screw it harder (with a pair of pliers) it might work
it was 20eur or something so if it keep the depth its well woth the money.
profiling joys
yeah, we've had similar problems with our router not keeping the depth setting, have ruined a couple cores and it is ahhhhhhh frustrating!!!!
Our router is also on the cheap side (Black and Decker)... Anyways, definitely something to keep in mind during the profiling process. At the very least be aware of it and triple-check regularly that the depth hasn't changed (granted, it makes a long process even longer, but it beats having to re-laminate a bunch of cores)
Our router is also on the cheap side (Black and Decker)... Anyways, definitely something to keep in mind during the profiling process. At the very least be aware of it and triple-check regularly that the depth hasn't changed (granted, it makes a long process even longer, but it beats having to re-laminate a bunch of cores)
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Layup
Graphic layer, hippiestyle (cotton fabric)
My new vacuumpump! I tried to build a vacuumswitch but it didnt work, so i ended up using a timer that switch it of for 30 min and runs for 15
Using a plastic film (no tube) and seal it with elefant poo (realy sticky dogh), works realy good and its easy to get a good seal. I prefer the film before the tube, u can prepare every thing before layup and just fold it over the mold.
for camber i just use a piece of wood under the center and clamp it down at the ends (originaly davides idee i think..)
I´ll post som pics of the finshed product tomorow, cant wait...
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- Joined: Sat Jul 28, 2007 1:27 pm
- Location: Sweden