A thought...

**ttink** · 02-04-2008 08:55 PM

Now, I know this has probably been posted... But how am I supposed to find it with the search... Anyways... What if you got some plywood, say, maple and BB for simplicity, and you pressed it in a no concave, kicktail press. Then you cut it into strips and V-lam them. Could this produce a nice v-lam board with a kicktail? Just kind of a thought...

**arcane** · 02-04-2008 08:59 PM

Originally Posted by ttink

Now, I know this has probably been posted... But how am I supposed to find it with the search... Anyways... What if you got some plywood, say, maple and BB for simplicity, and you pressed it in a no concave, kicktail press. Then you cut it into strips and V-lam them. Could this produce a nice v-lam board with a kicktail? Just kind of a thought...

I believe it would produce a board exactly like the one you cut up, but cut up and glued back together.

**ttink** · 02-04-2008 09:03 PM

Well Im saying press the maple and birch plies seperatly to your desired camber then v-lam them... Has it ever been done?

**Laudie02** · 02-05-2008 08:48 AM

you'd basically have a board made of glue that i think would ride like a wet noodle.

**anotherartgeek** · 02-05-2008 09:25 AM

It looks like Gravity is doing this. >here<

**Laudie02** · 02-05-2008 09:33 AM

i thought that was an all fiberglass board

**arcane** · 02-05-2008 09:36 AM

Originally Posted by anotherartgeek

It looks like Gravity is doing this. >here<

"Gravity offers V-lam, a new technology".
Why do all companies feel the need to claim techniques and processes that have already been around for a while? What they meant to say was
"Gravity offers V-lam, a new technology, for us anyway"

**netphreak** · 02-05-2008 09:57 AM

This still reminds me of GFH's ad... Is it really green?

**anotherartgeek** · 02-05-2008 10:02 AM

Well it does reduce, reuse and recycle; so it's green-er

**Turfsurfer** · 02-06-2008 12:17 PM

it might work better if you v-lammed up the wood, cut "veneers" out of it (no idea how you could do that, a really good bandsawy maybe?) and pressed your v-lam layers... it would probably also be good to stagger the vertical glue joints within the horizontal lamination. It is a lot of glue to use though.

**96789carver** · 02-06-2008 12:33 PM

Originally Posted by arcaneboarder

"Gravity offers V-lam, a new technology".
Why do all companies feel the need to claim techniques and processes that have already been around for a while? What they meant to say was
"Gravity offers V-lam, a new technology, for us anyway"

pssh its not realy even a v-lam

only the top layer is v-lam and the rest is just birch/maple(?) ply

its basically a marketing scheme