Library of Board-Building Tips, Resources & Ideas

[hometowner]

what type of wood stain can be used before applying fiberglass?

[rossiroller]

Originally Posted by ericmohahaha

Do you absoultely have to apply varnish or epoxy after spray painting a board, even if it was previously varnished before spraypainting. What happens if you don'T
thx

You should put on like 2 layers of clear coat to protect the paint, especially if you actually painted a design on it. If you don't, it will scratch easier and I can't remember what else.

But do it. It shouldn't cost much and it makes it shiny.

[jspats40]

Originally Posted by hometowner

what type of wood stain can be used before applying fiberglass?

waterbased. minwax is da bomb

[jspats40]

heres a DIY on wheel wells. creative...
Wheel Wells How-to

here is something on cutting out drop thrus. i found it extremely helpfull!
how to drop thru

[flannelman]

would using Door Skins work as piles work. i am 6'4" and 280lbs, and want to build a dropped dancer, but am worried about the wheelbase being too long. i was thinking that i could stack it like:

Door Skin
Door Skin
1/4 BB
Door Skin
Door Skin

I might use more BB it depends on how springy it will be

and I would chamber is with the toothless method, but slightly modified so it can be moved while curing.

Here is a basic design pic. i used Sketchup by Google. sort of a lengthened dervish type of thing.

[ielongboardman]

Originally Posted by c-n-s

can any one tell me the main reason for concaving the center of a board on a longboard or short cruiser is it realy needed

it greatly improves the strength of the deck a good example of this would be a flat brige and an arched one the concave on a longboard is just an inverted example of this

[ryanholupchinski]

I'm making my own mini longboard in woodworking so what type of wood should I use?

[KeyWestDude]

Hello all

Greetings from Key West. Been working on some deck designs made from reclaimed hardwood from old buildings here on the island. Having some issues (actually, having plenty of issues, but at least having FUN) lining up the truck holes...getting the two trucks to line up properly.
My woodshop partner is wondering if there is some kind of tool (like a flat bar with pre-drilled holes that can be placed on top of the blank, etc) out there.

Maybe we will fabricate our own, not sure. Seems easy enough. Anyone have any ideas? Any more of a clue than me (which isn't hard to imagine).

Thanks
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Originally Posted by jspats40

waterbased. minwax is da bomb

[mr64114176]

I'm looking to make a pure fiberglass deck and am looking to get my supplies from TAPs.

So my question is this: If I use medium to heavy weight fiberglass, weigh about 155-160lb, and want to make a board that has about 2-3 inches of camber that flattens out when i stand on it how many plies of fiberglass would I need to have in the deck?

Given my experience, it would be around 8-12 layers for a pure FG deck. Any thoughts? Experience?

[oration]

Originally Posted by KeyWestDude

Hello all

Greetings from Key West. Been working on some deck designs made from reclaimed hardwood from old buildings here on the island. Having some issues (actually, having plenty of issues, but at least having FUN) lining up the truck holes...getting the two trucks to line up properly.
My woodshop partner is wondering if there is some kind of tool (like a flat bar with pre-drilled holes that can be placed on top of the blank, etc) out there.

Maybe we will fabricate our own, not sure. Seems easy enough. Anyone have any ideas? Any more of a clue than me (which isn't hard to imagine).

Thanks
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i just encountered the same problem wen i was building my shlongboard, couldent line up the holes, use a long peciece of cardboard or paper line it up in the center (about 1.5" widty strip of the suff) and draw a line on each side i had a old pair of trucks hanging around from an old toys are us boards, take the hanger off and pin out line up the holes with the lines and drill away, then come back with a slightly larger bit (take baseblate off ) and redrill the holes, this makes up for the sloppy drilling and your mounting of the truck with be less painful,
warrning do not use to big of a drill bit for redrilling holes, if the hole is biger than the head of the screw you will encounter many dificultys

[Daniel M.]

Nonono just draw a centerline from tip to tail and measure off of that or use a bolt hole template. Easy enough, rulers are your friend!

[oration]

how do you delet post, i hit enter when i was typing

[oration]

im lazy
measuring=work
when i have a baseplate hanging around, why measure, put some paper down draw a line and drill through my template. DONE

[KeyWestDude]

Originally Posted by oration

i just encountered the same problem wen i was building my shlongboard, couldent line up the holes, use a long peciece of cardboard or paper line it up in the center (about 1.5" widty strip of the suff) and draw a line on each side i had a old pair of trucks hanging around from an old toys are us boards, take the hanger off and pin out line up the holes with the lines and drill away, then come back with a slightly larger bit (take baseblate off ) and redrill the holes, this makes up for the sloppy drilling and your mounting of the truck with be less painful,
warrning do not use to big of a drill bit for redrilling holes, if the hole is biger than the head of the screw you will encounter many dificultys

Cool. Gotcha. Working with the type of wood we do (old as hell, reclaimed stuff), we've burned through a lot of hardware (screws). We were running into splitting with the typical tapered head screw. Then I got a hold of some Randoms. They are now standard on our decks for sure. No issues with the heads splitting the wood. As for the truck holes, thanks for the advice. I'll see what happens this week in the shop. Are you in Denver? I see the Never Summer logo. Got some friends out there in Denver helping me with some new decks, etc.

Holla

[oration]

no not from denver...
how do you delet posts...anyway i got a good dezine idea for a board im building with my dad, a laminated drop through drop deck, somthin like the chinook from landy but hopfully a drop through to anlong with the drop deck
also im makin it with hudge wheel cut-out things (im sure theres a name for them) trying or thinkin about puting some 75a 97mm fly wheels on
now to my question. with limoted tools, how on earth do you make the patern or that and cut out a drop through mounting holes. if im lucky i might be able to get my hands on a router, i might be able to borrow one. right now im limited to a bunch of saws and a power drill with a hole lot of shafty thingys
help meeeeeee....
no, costal b.c... canada
denver sounds like some usa place, true or false

thank goodness for edit, did you know... if you click the right buttons space sends your message to...
or im a klutz and hit enter agian

[EnemaAZ]

Denver is in Colorado, USA. (At least there's one there, there might be more)

Did you say you're from Canada? I was reading your posts with a French accent because of ze 'orrible speeling, but should I make it Canadian Aye?

[TheJcat]

Originally Posted by ryanholupchinski

I'm making my own mini longboard in woodworking so what type of wood should I use?

For my longboard in woodworking I used birch. It came out great, had a nice camber, but it cracks pretty easily. I would use Baltic birch or if you can, you could use bamboo but it's pretty expensive. You could also try combining them like a 1/4 Baltic birch and 1/8 bamboo on each side. Hope this helped!

[sailingbreeze]

does anyone know how to build a press or something that would create a kicktail? like a pool board or like the xvd stoagie?

[XxTQxX]

sorry, probably a dumb question but how can you STAIN a deck two different colors and have a straight edge where they meet without any bleeding? sorry for changing the subject....

[vking]

crail dh trucks vs. bear 1040s or 852s for an evo....which is the better truck?