snowboard

[MartinJern]

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...

[heelside76]

can't wait to see how it comes out:D
172, thats a pretty long board!;)

[M.F]

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....

[MartinJern]

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.

[billl]

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)

[MartinJern]

I´m planning to use basematerial as tipspacers but since the base is 1.3 thick and my tip/tail of the core is 2mm, I was thinking laminateing 2 pieces together and sand them down to 2mm.
Anyone tried this?

[Doughboy]

En 245:a, en 855:a, ett rött hus med vita knutar och sommar. Det är vad jag kallar Sverige

[MartinJern]

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...

[MartinJern]

and yes the biltema router works just fine! it turned out to be the routerbit that came out due to the vibrations.
the first time I didnt put the bit all the way in the chuck.

[MartinJern]

out of the press, same mistake as we did this winter no lesson lerned... the masonite is stuck to the base violence solves everything

cutting out roughly



I just need sme new belt for the sander so i can smoth things up, and a basegrind! oh... and snow!!!!!

[Idris]

Nice one Martin. Looks very professional

That base lesson was mine not yours!..though you might have remembered the tape

[mark]

That graphic kicks so much ass! Verry cool looking.

[allyson]

wow, those pics are great, and the graphics on your board look awesome as well! way to see it through to the end, despite all the obstacles.

[MartinJern]

thanks guys!

Another board in the bag!
same prosedure as last time, minus the fukk ups. (hopefully)
I just hate waiting fore the epoxy to cure... so much can go wrong that u cant do anything about now.

Will post pics tomorow night.

[MartinJern]

Here it comes!


This is my friends board, it came out really nice.
Just a minor problem... it delamed a few cm in the tip while cleaning up the edges. The edge might have been porly cleaned before layup. nothing that cant be fixed...