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!:



...

Most companies used to not give me the time of day...

When you inquire to companies about commercial materials and process they tend to not even bother to respond if you're e-mailing from your ol' private e-mail.. and even then some really want to talk to you on the phone.. or fax stuff..

Soooooo to get responses and samples from companies for my snowboard project ( for now at least ) and well I buy stuff also!


I have a businessey sounding website with a few e-mails. I put up a simple page that says coming soon with the name and some graphics. Then I have an 800 number that e-mails me the voicemail and faxes I get..

Here is a semi-typical e-mail I get.. and you can see what kinda stuff is going on in my head kinda.. :

"Yes it is possible for us to coat 52100 material. The main consideration
when working with 52100 is the last tempering temperature. The lowest
temperature at which we can coat is 575F. Can these components
handle this temperature? Regarding the attached sketch you sent me it
is not clear how we would hold the part during the coating process. Can
you please give me a phone number that I can use to contact you for
further discussion?"

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..

and so

and so

This is life..
Something that cannot ever be described as unfair because it in itself cannot be fair..
A game of chance that you can never win or lose, you can only ever claim to have been unsuccessful or successful at it..
And at its most basic level the sole purpose is to procreate..
A situation where you're in charge but never in control

flickr

Skams now has a flickr :D!
see it here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/skammeh/ not that I've really taken any new pictures. I should have some new pics up sometime soon since I have a better idea of how to take some IR pics..

I'm a dork :D but I thought this would be fun :D

I was driving down from Mt. Wilson in the LA forest :o