Wood Deck help

boarderboy4life9 · Faceplant Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 4 City: Houghton

If anyone out there has any experience buildin concave or flat wood decks hit me up, ive made composties no but i cant fig out how to start a wood deck

jordan · Backside 180 Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 649 City: Spectre

are you vac baggin it?

devotid · Frontside 180 Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 473 City: saginaw

Let me guess you go to michigan Tech and your building board and stuff in a class there? Wink

just call up skateboard companies and ask them to spill there secrets. They love to give them away. really. Rolling Eyes

If that doesnt work i suggest spending a few thousand dollars and a couple years trial and erroring like the rest of us out there. It works like a charm.

The Upper Penn is one of the veneer capitols of the world. start there.

jonnyUTAH · Backside 180 Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 1951

There are plenty of threads about building wood skates on here.

My advice:
Build a good 3-stage mold.
Get the right glue.
Be very careful how much pressure you use in your mold.
For Concave...find a good CNC operator and spend the time to create your own CNC program.

If you want to do it the old fashion way.....then there is only one person to contact: http://www.beachwoodmasters.com/subpage3.html This dude is out of Verginia, and I have ridden with him a bunch of times. Super good guy, and the best there is with building custom wood wakeskates. He has like 3 different bi-level designs that are extremely interesting as well as super sick concave decks. I am just glad that he remains old fashioned and isn't mass producing his decks. his decks are expensive but worth adding to any collection.

Jesse · Posted: Sep 08, 2006 12:55 pm Post subject:

I want a cedar board with inlays, those are so sick I puked Laughing

JB_CANSKATE · Posted: Sep 08, 2006 1:17 pm Post subject:

Yea deffinatly start with a good jig. Are you trying to make em to sell or for personal use?

And post some pics of the composite deck you made.

JB

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10756 City: Jefferton

paul schmidtt actually helped out with some sort of class where kids could design, build and ride their own skateboard designs. i'm sure he's not spilling trade secrets, but that'd be such a cool experience.

and I've heard of houghton...I think I've snowmobiled up there before. is that where michigan tech is? I had a friend who went to school there and now he test drives cars. sweet gig, for sure...

boarderboy4life9 · Faceplant Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 4 City: Houghton

Thanx for the help bros. Itll b a good time workin on this now. YA ur right Bro I go to Mich Tech and im takin a class on buildin wakeboards/skates and snowboards, best part its all free to me materials and everythin. we are just buildin the boards for educational purposes as of now we are guna start out just buildin a replica and then we are guna work on tryin to put somethin new into it. If anyone has anyideas bout stuff they wana see improved or dif bout a skate let me know

those cedar boards are sick

Id post some picks of the composite we made, but it turned out sick as shizzle its probably surfable its so big but it was an experience so it was worth it. we vacum bagged it and it turned out way better than hand laying it up.

Ya houghton is def snowmobile couintry up here. It snows like mad.

peace

devotid · Frontside 180 Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 473 City: saginaw

I think i got a friend named cameron in that same class.

PM me and we can set you up to get some wood boards going. Ive got pallets of wood that we can make some deals on.

kevin