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Me too!! I have similar clamps, and the scrap pieces of wood look familiar!!Brazen wrote:Awesome pics! I feel great now

Great photo, COsurfer! Thanks for sharing.
So, I suspect they have a horizontal self-feeding band saw to cut cores into thinner pieces? The wood looks like maple, and finger jointed. I do the same, finger joint odd pieces and mixing wood together for tailoring the stiffness, damping, etc.
Brazen -- you might be right, but it looks like there are 4 identical marks??Brazen wrote:yep. looks like someone didn't bother lifting the z axis before they slid across.
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The op was asking about the black line in the tip between the sidewall/tipspacer and the top glass layer. It will be black vds laid over the tip spacer and sidewalls.
Never summer love using heaps of vds.
COsurfers picture shows how they shape a thick core block with a sidecut then glue on sidewall material with vds in between the core block and plastic. They then use a horizontal bandsaw to cut core blanks which end up with sidewalls attached and vds between core and sidewall.
It's interesting that tele has been doing this and found planing cores with sidewall attached much easier. The vds must take up some of the strain at the sidewall/core joint while planing. Sounds good!
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I figure a full wrap of vds would well worth the material.
I especially think that has a clean look.
From what I've seen, a planer is too rough to keep that sidewall bonded. Maybe planing with a sander rather than the blade is the key? Although if they cnc, then why have a sander like what is shown in the vid?
Maybe they have those sidewalls pop off fairly often and just glue them back on if they do.
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I especially think that has a clean look.
From what I've seen, a planer is too rough to keep that sidewall bonded. Maybe planing with a sander rather than the blade is the key? Although if they cnc, then why have a sander like what is shown in the vid?
Maybe they have those sidewalls pop off fairly often and just glue them back on if they do.
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I thought about it and I can't imagine why anyone would score the wood on a core...so I figure maybe they're using a 12 gang forstner bit attachment on a drill press and one was hanging a little low? Who knows...that's just odd to me. Full vds adds a LOT of weight.
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It weakens the core, scoring it like that. Maybe that's CF...doubt it. My bet is they're hedging their bets on quick production methodology with VDS to improve the bond.
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I would think that it weakens the core also. But if you look at their limited tech page those marks directly correspond with their carbon fiber placement.Brazen wrote:It weakens the core, scoring it like that. Maybe that's CF...doubt it. My bet is they're hedging their bets on quick production methodology with VDS to improve the bond.
I thought it was cf, because that was what it was on my older NS. It definitely could be vds, but I would be surprised that it would be that thick of a line. VDS is pretty thin, and NS presses at something like 100psi, so I wouldn't expect it to be that noticeable. Also, if it was VDS we would see the same line on the bottom of the sidewall. According to their site, they use 3 layers of vds, above the edges and between the glass and the core. There is definitely vds above the sidewall. I just don't think that's what the black line is. Most likely the black line is a result of their "carbonium" top sheet.
Yes chrismp, the black line that goes all the way around the board right above the sidewall.
http://neversummer.com/snow/features/
True about the line height...it's BARELY noticeable using the thickness I've been getting from CDW, maybe they're using a heavier vulcanized rubber.
Carbonium?!? WTF hahaha
noun
a transient, positively charged organic ion, as HC, R, that has one less electron than the corresponding free radical
Origin: carb(o)- + (amm)onium
I got your carbonium right here hehehe
So DBS, do you think they're using carbon fiber center of those marks or outer, I.E. tip and tail?
Carbonium?!? WTF hahaha
noun
a transient, positively charged organic ion, as HC, R, that has one less electron than the corresponding free radical
Origin: carb(o)- + (amm)onium
I got your carbonium right here hehehe
So DBS, do you think they're using carbon fiber center of those marks or outer, I.E. tip and tail?
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