So, do you guys still freak out every time?

[Brazen]

Better every time

[Idris]

Very nice work

[skidesmond]

What's to freak out about? Looks perfect! What ever you're doing keep doing it.
Some times I think ski building is like golf in a way (at least the way I play). You hit a nice drive down the center of the fairway and not really sure how you did it. The next time you try to do the exact same thing and you end up deep in the rough..... Go figure.

[chrismp]

thats beautiful!
lets see those graphics!
btw, the board looks really thick at the contact points...whats your core profile thickness? or maybe its just the photo.
again, really nice work!

[Brazen]

Thanks guys, nothing makes the long hours more worthwhile for me than people that KNOW giving you a thumbs-up. Chris, here's the graphic...I would have actually taken a shot of the board, but it already "leaked" out of my shop, my d'bag friends "Let me test that for you in Mammoth this weekend" You know...you probably have some too haha. It's a 165cm and the thickness was 7mm center, 7.5mm underfoot to 2.2mm at the tips, vds top and bottom, carbon fiber ON TOP and 19oz triax top and bottom, turned out 10mm underfoot so... it might be a little heavy. I'll know tomorrow

[Brazen]

Here's the texts I got from Mammoth..."handles like a dream" "FAST!" "Edge holds super in crud" "Lots of compliments on the board" "Great pop out of turns!". It's hard to determine what to change from this type of feedback.

[skidesmond]

Here's the texts I got from Mammoth..."handles like a dream" "FAST!" "Edge holds super in crud" "Lots of compliments on the board" "Great pop out of turns!". It's hard to determine what to change haha.

It's always great to get positive feedback from a fellow skier/boarder. Not to steal your thunder but today I got similar feedback from skis I made that I let our race director use for the day. And lets face it, it feeds the ego just a bit but mostly it tells you you're doing something right! Nice work!

[fa]

hey Brazen, super clean finish
great to hear it rides nice, congrats!

[Brazen]

Cute like tiny snowboards...

[MontuckyMadman]

Oh no!!
Ha ha sick.
they look real thick. Weird.
good job.
You should put some peiziolastic dampners in there.

[Brazen]

Better yet...





hehe, the new tooling rocks )

[Richuk]

Great - glad to see the new tooling is working as you like. It keeps the board pressed down and kills the vibration?

[skidesmond]

Super nice finish on that board! What did you use?

[threeninethree]

Is your cnc gantry fixed in the X, with the motion at the table? Nice design!

[Brazen]

Richuk, yeah! The router table modification I built works , well, perfectly. The soft rubber idler wheels press the board down even with the router bearing and keep the board from changing outward angle as well. I'm stoked!

SkiDesmond, Yeah, I really love the way the finish turned out as well. It's a 2 part linear polyurethane from TCP Global. Honestly though, I doubt if I'll ever do this type of finish again...I believe I've found a superior and less labor intensive way to go. We'll see haha

393, it is a fixed X...my long range idea for it is to put a large sanding drum on the Z axis for flex profiling. And thanks! That thing was a lot of work, and had me ready to throw it (and myself) off a cliff several times before I finally got it set up correctly haha.