My fourth snowboard just finished

knightsofnii · Post by **knightsofnii** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 7:38 pm

that's pretty sick i'd love to figure out how to do both

doughboyshredder · Post by **doughboyshredder** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:10 pm

beautiful

Huck Pitueee · Post by **Huck Pitueee** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:21 pm

knightsofnii wrote:that's pretty sick i'd love to figure out how to do both

Put your board on the form with peel ply then bleeder cloth. Put the form and board into a vac bag. Then take all that and put it in the press. Just don't stress and get bleeder cloth between the board and the form like I did.

COsurfer · Post by **COsurfer** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:34 pm

Wow! Great job!

chrismp · Post by **chrismp** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 12:52 am

there you go

i can explain it to you as well if twizz hasn't done so...

that board is a work of art! loving the backseat inserts!

chrismp · Post by **chrismp** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 12:54 am

haha, i just realized that the wood frame thingy is your press! what psi are you pressing at? are you seeing any deflection?

Huck Pitueee · Post by **Huck Pitueee** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 6:28 am

I didn't measure any deflection but I got scared at very low psi. Some cracking sounds caught my attention. I'll beef it up a bunch for my next board. Thanks for getting the pics up! How'd you do that?

WhitePine · Post by **WhitePine** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 10:50 am

Wow, that looks so amazing. That is one of the coolest looks I've ever seen. *golf clap*

twizzstyle · Post by **twizzstyle** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 11:08 am

Huck Pitueee wrote:I didn't measure any deflection but I got scared at very low psi. Some cracking sounds caught my attention. I'll beef it up a bunch for my next board. Thanks for getting the pics up! How'd you do that?

Yeah a wood press scares me. Take a look at some of the steel presses people have built, if you're going to be using any significant amount of pressure it needs to be steel. Think about a car's weight. Would you trust parking 20 small cars on your press? Because that's the order of magnitude of force a firehose imparts at ~60psi.

To post pictures you need the direct link to the jpg's. In Flikr you have to go view all the sizes, then pick a size, right click and get properties to get the direct jpg link.

Then on the forum here you type [ img ] (without spaces) then paste the jpg URL, then [ /img ] (again no spaces) and it'll post the picture.

There are handy buttons above the text window when you are posting that will add the img tags for you

Huck Pitueee · Post by **Huck Pitueee** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 5:16 pm

Thanks for the help Twizz. I'll try to wade through that. Yea the wood press is sketchy but it's better than bagging only. My shop is 8 x 14 so no steel press for a while.

Brazen · Post by **Brazen** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 6:15 pm

I just have a bet going here, can you help me Huck? I say you're pressing first then bagging the topsheet, T or F.

twizzstyle · Post by **twizzstyle** » Thu Sep 15, 2011 6:32 am

For what it's worth Brett, a few pairs ago I tried to do both, I vacuum bagged the ski in the mold first, then while it was under vacuum I put it in the press and used the firehose.

This was before I had a cattrack, and on the first ski the hose pushed my top sheet metal down around the sides and clamped off the vacuum hose, I lost vacuum, and it didn't work. For the second ski I did some things different so that wouldn't happen, and it worked out pretty good.

Huck Pitueee · Post by **Huck Pitueee** » Thu Sep 15, 2011 6:50 am

Brazen wrote:I just have a bet going here, can you help me Huck? I say you're pressing first then bagging the topsheet, T or F.

That's what happened. I filled any imperfections in the top layer of glass then bagged on the veneer.

MontuckyMadman · Post by **MontuckyMadman** » Thu Sep 15, 2011 8:53 am

damnit!

Huck Pitueee · Post by **Huck Pitueee** » Thu Sep 15, 2011 4:50 pm

In the pics. above I show the 3 layer core. Is that called "vertically laminated"?

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