Snowboard getting ready to progress.. a lot soon

I hope at least! :D

I cut the edges and did a much better this time around. Though as usual I screwed mine up and my friend's remains perfect. Here is hers :


and I'd try to cut the ribs for making the snowboard profile molds.. and failed miserably so I found a cabinet guy with a cnc router to cut me some.. so here they are still sitting on the router:


from there I went on to put together the molds and was going to put some thin wood on top but decided it would be easier to throw on some metal I had laying around.. I just need to glue the metal down and they will be all done. One is 156 and the other is 143.


Then I gave the bases a nice wash which will be followed by a degrease and then I'll tack on the edges with some super glue.


I have mostly everything now to get them done! just need some fittings for the vacuum and a 1/2" router and bit which is in the mail!

Small snowboard update

My inserts came in the mail! the tops are magnetic so I toss on some steel powder and can see exactly where they are to drill out :D

Hopefully in a week or two I should be getting a lot more done

Snowboard progress.. edges done!

Well basically.. just have to tweak them a tiny bit (loudly with a hammer) and cut them to the right length so they come together correctly.. I messed this up a tiny tiny bit last time :|. I'm gonna cut and leave extra material and go from there..!

Bending the rails of my board:


Both edges of mine finished:


Mine and my friends done :D!:



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Snowboard...s! coming along :D

So I got a package today :D with the two bases I sent off! and they're perfect as can be. One for me and one for my friend. They actually looked like they were the same length and I thought the guy had screwed up and sent me two of the sizes for me :\ but then I put them down and saw that everything was good :D!


Off to the side is my new vacuum pump.. that's actually old but it was only 50 bucks :D

The snowboard project.. starts over.. D:

Well I've decided to re-start on my snowboard as the p-tex (the base) was cut pretty badly at least I thought. So instead of finding out how a slightly uneven board rides I've decided to start over and not even bother cutting it myself this time. So here is mine in all its computerized glory as I'm sending the design off so I can have it cut.. perfectly! for me.




I decided to glue on the edges anyways since I won't be able to use them for the new one:



and this is why I decided to start over :





Eh ya little things kinda I guess.. but not really to me and I don't want to end up making something that's shitty..

Snowboard update #4

So I got a few things done:
I finished bending the edges which took a bit of time to get done but wasn't that bad.. I just bent them by hand with some leather gloves, but now I've decided I want magnetraction so I still have some more bending to do.


Cut the excess of the edges


and started to polish the edges which is a hell of a pain D:

Snowboard update #3

So I have one side of the edges done basically and now this is the other side that I've set into place with some clamps. It will get left like this for a few days to let the metal relax into position so it will form up nicer and leave me less to bend.

Snowboard update #2

Cut my gold p-tex (the base of the board that's on the snow) to shape today :o now comes the fun part of bending the metal rails to fit it.

Snowboard update #1

Cut out the template for the core, just needs some more sanding around the edges. Also got my p-tex (the plastic on the bottom of the board) that's gold with gold flakes :D and the metal for the edges.

Been feeling the need to build something

Here is the start :o
a template for a snowboard on some wood that will be my template for making my own snowboard :D. The red looking stuff is nomex honeycomb : which is light and strong but not so flexible which worries me a bit but we shall see how it turns out.. I will update as I progress