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Cool article on bomberonline.

http://www.bomberonline.com/articles/bu ... coiler.cfm

this should live near the top

Great read.

A few things I found interesting. Reverse profiled core with the camber cut in to the bottom of the core. I don't get it. I read the description a few times and it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.

No heat.

2:1 mix epoxy which is I think quite a bit thicker than what most people are using.

Topsheet applied after pressing?

makes sense to me. camber is profiled in instead of pressed in. No?

How do you profile the thickness of the core and the camber? I just can't wrap my mind around it.

I assume you profile one before the other and then have a crib to make up the difference.
Camber first, taper after.

doughboyshredder wrote:Reverse profiled core with the camber cut in to the bottom of the core.

It is not very smart: in case of big cambers, there will be no long wood fibers running entirely from tip to tail.

I actually spent a week windsurfing in North Carolina (OBX) with a group of people, including this guy. He's got some pretty innovative stuff going on, mostly the metal or aluminum that he adds to his boards. Haven't seen much of that on this site.

all I know is that some of those photos may look strange, like, is that a wood press?
and the fact that he's still vacuum bagging a LOT of boards,
but this guy has a reputation for building some of the best carve/race boards out there.

so whatever he's doing, it's working

Volkl in the past cut the camber into the thickness profile. It made the skis
real snappy. Makes sense to me. The fibers are relaxed and not stretched
like they are when you press the camber into the core. When you press the ski down, I would think that you begin compressing the fibers immediately instead of come back to neutral and then compressing the fibers. It just seemed to work.