Okay, half a year ago I needed a new board but the one I wanted was around 650€. It was the Arbor Coda Camber with griptech, uprise fenders and veener on top. The idea for building my own snowboards was stucked in my head for years but after the first idea I recognized how much work it really is. Therefore It stayed with the idea. Until now. Before I buy a board for 650€ I thought I could spend 300-400€ and build my own.
First of all I have to say I was going the rough way with a lot of work that could have been done easier but in the end it was worth the work and I learned a lot.
I wanted to build this board in 2 weeks because our skiing holiday was in 2 weeks and I wanted a real veener topsheet board with griptech edges and uprise fenders.
I started my research, to bad I didn't knew this forum so all my informations came from youtube and other websites. Mostly from a short documentation about the never summer production hall.
After that I looked up at the board specifications on arbor and tried to rebuild the shape, guessing the missing informations.
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After that I purchased the material (wood core, biax, base, edge, abs sidewall, epoxy, inserts,...)
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And the cheapest vacuum pump from china that could be used for a long time and brings up to 0,8bar relative to atm. I only had to connect some cabels and build a solid plattform with a pressure measurement and some tubes to get it ready to go.
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I had no printer or any other way to get the template of the camber form so I had to measure the height from the camber form in the programm, every 5cm and made a template out of thin wood. After that I draw the template on the cheap wood boards, cut it with a jigsaw and glued it together. After some boards i realized that the jigsaw had a bevel blade... But It was the only tool I had and I thought I could sand it clear
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I didn't want to buy new wood so I tried to get it smooth but It was just to much out of shape and I didn't had the right tools for it. A plate sanders was the only tool I had unless normal sand paper so I sticked with it and got a thin wood cover to get a clear "uneven" form.
