dirty south in dunno's
has a growing crew of sliders and cruzers
and more joining us every week as they discover longboarding
hanging out bombing filthy hills (bit too much grit on the roads in winter tho)
I just posted a drop deck I cut out of an old sector9 on the speedboarding section check it out
and if you need advice on the build of your bamboo carver (just ask)
cheers
Haha, well how do you do it? Im trying to figure out how to get the bamboo into the right shape. Its bloody hard.
You could pm me if you dont want the public to know your secret haha.
Haha, well how do you do it? Im trying to figure out how to get the bamboo into the right shape. Its bloody hard.
You could pm me if you dont want the public to know your secret haha.
just make yourself a press.Its really not that hard, have a look at the toothless method check out some threads on boardbuilding. get plenty of G clamps. Tip before you go bending up your bamboo throw some crap ply in your press and check out the concave, camber to see if you have it right
glues I use are epoxys and medium fibre glass. also check out the Lushboards site theres some good threads there too. Aunty says aways wear a mask when glueing and shapeing.
cheers..another tip draw a center line down your new board with the cut out lines,make sure your templete ie paper drawing, has a good 20mm or more around the edge,this will give your final cut edges a clean glued look.. then laminate put it in your press make sure you line up your center lines of your board and your press. start clamping from the nose to the tail either side as you go down the deck to push out any air, give it 2 days and you are ready to start cutting.
So now its your turn to go make a board.
good luck
just make yourself a press.Its really not that hard, have a look at the toothless method check out some threads on boardbuilding. get plenty of G clamps. Tip before you go bending up your bamboo throw some crap ply in your press and check out the concave, camber to see if you have it right
glues I use are epoxys and medium fibre glass. also check out the Lushboards site theres some good threads there too. Aunty says aways wear a mask when glueing and shapeing.
cheers..another tip draw a center line down your new board with the cut out lines,make sure your templete ie paper drawing, has a good 20mm or more around the edge,this will give your final cut edges a clean glued look.. then laminate put it in your press make sure you line up your center lines of your board and your press. start clamping from the nose to the tail either side as you go down the deck to push out any air, give it 2 days and you are ready to start cutting.
So now its your turn to go make a board.
good luck
I'll give it a try, dunno how successful i will be.
How do you flatten out the bamboo? And do you use ply in between the bamboo? Or is it all bamboo?
I'm up in Christchurch, but have a few good mates at uni down south who I'm keen to get boarding, so may be paying them a visit sometime soon (hopefully)!
If there's any particularly good streets to ride, could ya chuck a post up with the details - lol - saves me having to spend all my time hunting round (as much as I love finding sweet spots to ride myself) while I could be giving my mates a go!
Oh, and off the cuff... has anyone ridden the motorway (southern) heading from the airport toward the city? I vaguely remember there being a nice long hill somewhere along the way, can't remember it too clearly, and have no idea about the road surface either... hmmm, it's probably completely illegal though... lol, that's never stopped me before (unless some of you boarders in Dunners are respectable cops for your day jobs, in which case of course I'd most certainly never consider illegal skateboarding on the motorway late one night... never!).
yeah the motorway
for a sweet little hill f no traffic but its pretty much one lane
park at tahuna cemetry and wander across the golf course to the hill at the end of john willy drive- its closed and security guards are good if you just stay on the hill and treat em with respect , please do as a few of us regularly use the hill and have a good deal going that would be sad to see go due to too many people using the hill and pissing off the rent-a-cops . please keep it on the quiet.
here's a little video i made there ....yeah i'm just a kook. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul4okoPMp90
I'll give it a try, dunno how successful i will be.
How do you flatten out the bamboo? And do you use ply in between the bamboo? Or is it all bamboo?
Bamboo, bamboo, bamboo?
ok Im gonna give up my supplier.... check out Woven Bamboo in tauranga they supply sheets of 1,3,and 5mm ask them to cut it to length you should get 6 pieces easy from a sheet , enough for 2 deck at 1150mm /300mm 3 layers laminated per deck if you want a strong deck put more fiber glass in to stiffen.
DO YOU WANT ME TO MAKE YOU ONE? $$$
Re: The Kiwi Thread (and no, not the fruit)
haha.
