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Homemade Longboard.. Whadda you think?

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ChefBoyardee
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So I was planning on buying a Loaded Dervish with some of the cash I made this summer but I was looking around Silverfishlongboarding.com and started reading up on how to make your own boards.. so I headed to the garage and made a press and got a hold of some 1/8in Baltic Birch and went to town. It ended up being a 42in board with 2in of camber and about 3/8in of concave. I still need to drill out the holes for the drop thru and put another layer of fiberglass on the top cuz shes still a little bit soft but other that that Im almost road ready... now for picture time

Heres the press I made, its actually upside down for how the board will end up sitting

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This is the inside of the press.. the piled up birch gave me 3/8in of concave which feels pretty damn comfy

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Heres the blank board before I chopped it up and sanded 'er down

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and this is while the fiberglass is curing on the bottom of the board

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I ll post up more pics when its all bolted together and ready to shred
Sep 9 2009 10:39AM
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Squishmitten
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im not giving you my camera,
Sep 24 2009 8:36PM
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derbski
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precisely why he is stealing it
Sep 28 2009 6:21PM
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Squishmitten
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im not gonna let him tho.. cause he smells.
Sep 28 2009 6:58PM
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C.Wood
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sullyskier69 makes some pretty rad longboards
twk longboards
you can facebook them
Sep 28 2009 7:14PM
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Squishmitten
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Those are actually pretty sweet.
Sep 29 2009 1:34PM
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ChefBoyardee
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**UPDATE**

Alright so this has taken quite a while to finally finish being that I'm down at school and not at home with all the tools I needed.. but anyways here's the finished product. It's a 42in dropthru design board, 8in wide with an inch or so of camber and 1/4in of concave. This one's just the prototype so I didn't bother gripping it or finishing it with graphics or stickers or anything like that. I think if I can get my stuff down here I wanna start making them to sell but nothings official yet so we'll see where that goes.. anyways here's the pics, feedback is much appreciated.

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Oh I forgot to mention that the bolts in the 4 corners are to prevent the de-laming of the layers caused by my hardner being a little bit on the sketchy side (left out in the non-heated side of the garage all winter) but won't be needed in future boards thanks to new hardner and resin. So whadda you think?




Oct 5 2009 7:45PM
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1337
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sick man, good stuff! I really like it
Oct 5 2009 7:55PM
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CTD
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looks sick man, came out super nice!
Oct 5 2009 8:47PM
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skifree179
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very cool man keep up the good work if you can put some nice decals on that and i think u may have something ;)
Oct 5 2009 8:47PM
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ChefBoyardee
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Yeah I'm working on a logo and stuff right now and I'm gonna try to get a bunch of die-cuts made so i can slap em on and start making these puppies for real
Oct 5 2009 9:15PM
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Squishmitten
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Click for larger imagemaybe this?
Oct 6 2009 12:17AM
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ChefBoyardee
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^^thats the logo so far.. squishmitten is my roommate so we whipped that up on photoshop
Oct 6 2009 12:21AM
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