Cambered Bamboo...

**7RISTAN** · 08-11-2007 04:38 PM

if i press 1/4" plyboo in a press that has camber with glass on the boo will the glass hold the board's camber?

**7RISTAN** · 08-11-2007 06:22 PM

(bump).... i really need to know if this will work because i am going to pick the bamboo up monday.

**7RISTAN** · 08-11-2007 09:14 PM

i really need to know if this will work because i am going to get the bamboo tomorrow and need to know if i need to get 2mm veneer also so that i can get the camber.... i'd rather not have the added thickness, i'm using triaxle and uni glass. how does steve at insect get the camber, he doesn't use a veneer right?

**Daniel M.** · 08-11-2007 09:16 PM

i would probably get some veneer just to be safe. add the veneer and then the fiberglass. you wont want to buy expensive materials, press it, only to pull it out to find the deck flat with the fiberglass poorly laminated.

**7RISTAN** · 08-11-2007 09:20 PM

Originally Posted by Daniel M.

i would probably get some veneer just to be safe. add the veneer and then the fiberglass. you wont want to buy expensive materials, press it, only to pull it out to find the deck flat with the fiberglass poorly laminated.

ya... this is what i was thinking, how think is the venneer loaded uses, do you know?

**allstardavy** · 08-11-2007 09:34 PM

Loaded vertically laminates their bamboo together

**7RISTAN** · 08-11-2007 09:36 PM

Originally Posted by allstardavy

Loaded vertically laminates their bamboo together

ya but if you look at the bottom of one of their boards you will see fiberglass between the deck and a veneer.

**Daniel M.** · 08-11-2007 09:50 PM

the veneer on loadeds is there for looks really. the vlam of the board is what holds the shap. can you get the pbamboo any thinner than 1/4"?

**7RISTAN** · 08-11-2007 10:01 PM

they sell 1/8th but is a 0.6 mm veneer on shitty plywood... i've spent the last month making proto types out of BB becuz i am trying to start a small business out. i no have three shapes that my friends and i have tested and approved and they are just waiting for me to build and i could sell them for around 100 if i get the bamboo figured out, but i might just have to stick with BB. so loaded actually laminates their decks themselves? i thought they just bough sheets of v-lam and laminated the veneers on to get the shape...