thanks dave excellent idea. i wasn't aware that this might be readily available. even better. i'l ask my suppliers.

yes chris. veneer topsheet needs to be able to be sanded without the colour beeing sanded/scratched off straight away.. i know it has been done successuffly for snowboards using vacuum but do not know any specifics. not sure about heat. so skateboards builders have done this? hmm and mills so i migh...

Hi Everyone.. i know that some people do let their veneer topsheets 'soak' in colour under vacuum, obviously before lamination;) aim is the colour is deeper in the veneer itself, you can still see the wood and its structure but cannot scratch the colour off easily. Not sure what the correct terminol...

hi folks, i could not find anything about this, but please tell me if there's posts regarding this, thank you. has anyone successfully used materials other than aluminum for your mould/mold sheets in your press? i am currently using 1mm thick aluminum as direkt mould sheets below/above my snowboards...

hi everyone, i pretty much solved the losses by overengineering. using wooden topsheets also helped, depending on the veneer type they make the board's top laminate quite a bit stiffer. one thing i still experience is changes in tip height and overall rocker depending on temperature of the board, i ...

off topic, but...........http://www.sisco-sports.com/factory/presses.html
someone seen this? bloody hell, just a couple of presses. think i'll have a wet dream about this next night;)

so that means that the industry are all overengineering? most videos i saw had flat layup!? regarding thickness/fibre weight, pop/stiffness is about right so making the tips thinner (or the taper from end of effective edge to tip shorter )is not an real option unless using carbon , also because my t...

mm, thanks for your thoughts. so what diferences did you notice when pulling hozt? no i do not prebend edges, but considering that my tests without edges turned out the same, i would say they are not the issue. also, you do not need much force to bend a base with attached edges into the mould compar...

cheers. mm, i remember a post where you said you let cool dwn under pressure over night and had warped results, so you are now pulling out hot? what temp, after how much time? what differences did you notice? do you put your skis in a stressing rack like doughboy to get the right camber/curvature et...

hi folks, do your tips come out the same height/bend radius as the mold when using full woodcore, just some sidewalltype spacer for protection? my snowboards tips lose about 15-20mm (1/2'' - 3/4'') height compared to the mould... GRRRRRR..... full wood core 2mm in the tips,, heat top and bottom, 80°...

thanks for your answer. my impression was that filing down the ends of the edge and bending them to fit inside the board/ski at the exact same spot as the base inset ends is at least as laborintensive as bending the edge all the way around. or do you have another, quicker aproach? masonite, yeah tha...

hi skevic bros, nice vid, i like the sound. have you guys thought about mounting your edge bender under/through a workbench with just the rollers sticking out on top of it so that you can work with the base on the bench next to it as a template? if you had varying radii like for snowboard tips that ...

what about these plans for $10 you promised?

sweet! strip brushes..these are the ones i've been looking for... cheers mate!!

hi mike,
how did you make that nice dust suction system on your cnc head with the brushes? where did you get these brushes, i could not find anything similar in the net?
thanks for all the nice work and input. legend.

andi