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Pressed the new split shape. Super wide waist width. Short cambered effective edge. Tapered tips. Solid one piece yellow cedar core. rips pow, and amazingly good on groomers. 4mm taper . 1cm back stance /sidecut. Nose rise is 4cm longer than the tail rise.

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And some more wood porn. Lumberjacking is one of my favorite parts of ski building. Sitka spruce...the queen of the North
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And here's a quick unrelated story......
We heard a rig carrying beer had rolled of the highway, driver was fine. After the crane pulled the truck out and a machine cleaned up the contents there was an unknown possibility of bottled beer being at the bottom of the creek.
With my trusty hip waders I had to investigate.
This muddy hole turned up an easy 800 bottles in just over 3 hours. Once in a lifetime😜

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WOW!! SO SICK!! And the splits look sweet too...

Win!!!!!
I'm impressed!

Winning!! The split looks like a really fun shape. Did you try anything new to get the seam perfect? Looks pretty good on the pics.

chrismp wrote:Winning!! The split looks like a really fun shape. Did you try anything new to get the seam perfect? Looks pretty good on the pics.

Chris...these seams were really good. nothing new yet though! still see some light through the seam!

I have sold my house and bought a bigger one. Everything is moved but the shop so far! luckily I will have more space in the new house for a long router table setup(work bench mount). I also just invested in a brand new Laguna bandsaw.....On the down side, i don't have an external shop anymore, and am back to basement building, which limits my hours......cant have it all.

My new laguna will be able to resaw core blocks, and I plan on cutting my own veneer topsheets. I will likely need a drum sand to finish the veneers though.

Derek

Forgot to mention,,,,,,the new split shape is amazing! I rode it hard on everything. Turning a board with a large sidecut but short effective edge took three days to get used to, but since then my life has changed. seriously!

I took a regular twinish deck the other day while just cruising the mountain. did nothing for me in comparison to what I get out out of the new shape when riding. I don't have any "freestlye" jump run days anymore! I just like to ride fast and aggressive in my old age. hahaha (36 yrs old). The truth is I just love splitboarding now! everything else is filler, unless its dumping on hill, then ill shred some runs at the hill!

i think I may shift away from making reg. twinsh decks at all anymore! just not enough time! Problem is most people want "the old standard". But since I can't keep up on orders anyway, I think Im just gonna stick with the same ideas as behind our skis. Only a few shapes that are very specific to backcountry and powder riding!

Collecting beer from a creek is not to be tolerated.



Just got home fearing tomorrow's headache. I guess the the last beer was bad.

Yeah..sounds nice. In my country where every thing fun is forbidden collecting beer that way is not possible. Police would have fill the area with sand and control that..

heke wrote:Yeah..sounds nice. In my country where every thing fun is forbidden collecting beer that way is not possible. Police would have fill the area with sand and control that..

Which country are you talking about? :)

Finland

We came across a beer truck accident when we were at uni. Luckily it was in much nicer conditions than wintery swamps.
Someone made a short film about it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnUe_8WS7xo

Hey guys. Been along time. I sold my house with the new shop I built in the back. Bought a massive 3 floor home, one of those now filled with wood and tools and disorganization. As summer goes not enough time has been spent building. Camping, boating, surfing and some chainsaw massacres have filled those months.

Just getting back into it, and have a totally new look on snowboarding. Not into making all mountain, twin type, do it all boards at all anymore. Our skis have never been that way, and I think things got carried away with the intent to build for others.

Here's my new rides for me and my wife this year. Twiny deck thrown in for size comparison.

The snub nose is a 137.5 cm cambered deck. Big scoop, little rise in the swallow. One is Quadaxial basalt with a full layer of 4oz unit carbon tapering down to a point in the nose. The other a triax basalt with a full layer of the Uni Carbon on bottom.


The other 2 fishes are 143cm. One is sandwiched with 11oz triax Carbon, some extra material ontop the inserts. The other is a 0/90 8oz Carbon, sandwich with 2oz plain weave black innegra top and bottom. These ones are big reverse camber decks. The mold was made to match the boards sidecut. I basically took the 3 arcs that run to the points where the tip/tail rollover, then cut that and extended them. The tightest radius is between the insert then it mellows out.

I'm pumped to ride. We just had our first really heavy frost yesterday. I headed to Terrace for thanksgiving with the family and the mountains had a white blanket. It's coming!
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amazing work, nice stuff!

Great stuff! I wish conditions here would require building boards like that...but deep days are rare.

Let us know how the innegra reinforced board compares to the regular triax carbon one!

Thanks guys. I will post my findings after a good shred