Latest creation- short board

[Afrodeziak]

I made this with two sheets of 1/4" baltic birch, one horizontal and one diagonal. I heard not to do this, but it actually made it pretty stiff since it's fairly short.

This is my second board and I keep learning as I go along, I decided to take a lot of time with clearcoats, etc on this, since it's cold out and I can't ride it too soon anyways.

I am trying to decide what kind of grip job to do or if I should try some clear homemade deal, since I haven't done that before.

any thoughts ?

Ps. the graphic is me, I used a blender pen to set it into the wood and then clearcoats over it. Suprisingly it didn't wash around too much.

My center line was done with msking tape but the edges aren't too clean, I'm hoping to find a better way to do that without spending a shitload on pinstripping tape.

thanks for any feedback.

[bhawk2610]

wow... really nice board. i like the graphics too. love the board,excelent

[monkeyhead]

nice board does it have any concave? How long is it? I really like your stain job, and the pic of you is pretty cool. If it is stained on the top too, i think you should try clear gripping it. Other people have been talking about it, and it sounds pretty easy. All you gotta do is get some kind of sand, and mix it in with some varnish, and paint it on! Seems easy enough.

[Afrodeziak]

ahh yeah it's got a tiny bit of concave and a bout an inch of camber... something i need to work on is better concave.. I just use the scarp wood and clamp method.. so it's a different set-up for every board.

ill have to search a bit on how the sand deal works, what works best, etc

[nbro3232]

if the graphic is on top id say leave the strip plus a little past it uncovered so you have an outlined strip running down the middle

All the clear grip ive ever ridden dont seem to grip as well, but if that doesnt matter to you then it would definately look awesome with clear.

[V1RG1N14 L0NG804RD3R]

With good baltic birch the wood alternates one straight one cross grained ply already, so by you rotating one of your 1/4" sheets I don't think it affects the board much!

[100% Proof]

Interesting use of repetition. The stain is a little bit to dark brown for my taste, especially contrasting with the natural tone of the birch.
The shape is pretty sweet, a bit wide.
Nice execution though. What are the dimensions?

[mox]

One of the nice shorty's I have seen sir, I admire the accomplishment

[Nepptune]

I'm with Mox, sweet lookin board Afro, very nice.
I love the dark stain you got going there, and the rep graphics....all around pretty sweet.

I reckon go with clear gripping it with sand in a varnish/ urethane/ clearcoat or whatever you choose, I think there is a post in boardbuilding recently, by Loki440 about clear grip and some good answers and solutions there.

I used regular fine clean white beach sand for my first board, http://www.silverfishlongboarding.co...82ecd75f6a8593

It worked pretty good and the grip works a treat, rode th board in a sketchy rough ditch the other day and it works well.

Another, and probably better option is to find a boating and marine store, and get some non skid additive for decking. This is all uniform in size, gives a nice even finish and grips well.

Let us know what you do and post the pics!
Ggood job though and post the dimensions if you can.

Thanks

Nepps

[Afrodeziak]

picked up some no slip compound, put a layer of varathane down then sprinkled it on, I waited to long and the varathane had set too much so most of the no slip will fall off, I need to put on a pretty decent coat... hopefully it all turns out.

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[Afrodeziak]

Okay she's done. Aside from drilling one of my bolt holes a bit off on both trucks.. Something tells me it's the randals on there, lol. I am jsut farting around with wheels and also figuring out what trucks I want on there, probably not the randals.

Anything I'd change, a kicktail and maybe a bit longer of a board, It's pretty glued to the ground and I like to be able to kick turn

[Pepperoniquesadilla]

nice board...is that a clearcoat with sand gripjob???