Lets see pictures of your boards built using Home Depot Foam Blanks.
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Re: [mako224] Lets see pictures of your boards built using ...
Here's my last two boards, done with Home Depot and/or Lowes EPS and a bit of XPS
Skins from Ikea
If you go to my Flickr page you can see some of the long board build. http://www.flickr.com/photos/frickle/
The blank was glued up like I was doing a chambered board. i.e. 12 rocker profiles cut out of 2" sheet and glued up.
Hollow and Sandwich Wood Experimenter.
Exiled in East County.
Re: [mako224] Lets see pictures of your boards built using ...
Hi Marco SD.. What exactly did you use from Ikea to skin that? My Olivia is an Ikea fanatic, but so far her attempts to drag me there have been futile. I make boards the hard way, but I think it's just as well because I am new at it, and I think I learn more by starting from scratch. #7 is done, and my latest, well I can't really call it #8 because it was a rebuild of unglassed #4. I have never bought a blank. All my boards have been made out of xps or eps, from home depot or recycled construction demo foam..plus or minus some wood veneer or corecell..so I would check out Ikea if there was some cheap skin material. This last one, lotta time involved but kinda fun, tooka old bamboo rug to make my deck skin out of. Yer board looks fun, I wonder how it feels with that Civil War era fin onnit! Maybe the pic, but it doesn't look like bamboo to me..whatcha got there? D. HD Blank Boards:
HD blank 1
hd bank .5: abandoned blank
hd bl .239
Hommity Deppity
hdfest
foam chepo
fucka new blank mek yer own
obviously not right in the headall these pics are reruns of old posts- sorry, but you asked for it. My humble homemade blanks, Inspired by all the raw Swaylocks builders. I may never buy a prefab blank. Fuckem.
Re: [dpicton] Lets see pictures of your boards built using ...
The longboard is a super fun cruiser. That Fin has tons of hold and bonus, the pivot point isn't as far back as I thought it would be. Actually works better the steeper the wave. It's hard to quantify.
Ikea sells a mini-blind made from raw paulownia. I take the slats, cut the middle part out so there aren't any cord holes, and glue them up into a skin.
It's actually pretty nice, they're already the right thickness and they're milled square, so there's no machining to do.
You can get enough slats out of one set to skin the top and most of the bottom of a 6' - 6'6" short board, fish, etc...
So two sets will get you enough to do one board easy and they're $20 each.
Hollow and Sandwich Wood Experimenter.
Exiled in East County.
Re: [Marco_SD] Lets see pictures of your boards built using ...
Yeah I've heard this before, these I'm guessing,
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/20117513
LUPIN Venetian blind, Solid paulownia, Clear lacquer
(what are you doing to get rid of the lacquer?)
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Re: [gadgetuk] Lets see pictures of your boards built using ...
That's them, I give them a once over with 100 grit on a hard block to clean off the lacquer. It's pretty thin and comes off in two or three passes.
I also bundle them up together and go over the edges with a block plane to get them all uniform thickness, there's always a few that are a bit off width or have a little crown.
I also pull the ones that have highly diagonal grain patterns as they seem to snap pretty easy.
Hollow and Sandwich Wood Experimenter.
Exiled in East County.
Re: [mako224] Lets see pictures of your boards built using ...
Shaped 5-6 boards all with Lowes Foam, here's a few recent projects.. Surf these boards up on the great lakes!
Re: [mako224] Lets see pictures of your boards built using ...
These are boards I made several years ago with the help of CMP. The only board that is not made from Home Depot foam is the second from the right, #001.
I've made 5 or 6 more since this photo was taken. I gave 2 of these away, but I still ride the rest plus the newer boards I have. There are posts from Oneula that show many other boards we've made from Home Depot foam. We have also used Lowe's EPS and the blue Dow Styrofoam. Lately I've been using PU blanks that I got really cheap, and I have several large blocks of 2lb EPS I got from a construction site. The PU blanks and the 2lb EPS have been much cheaper than the Home Depot foam.
Re: [Marco_SD] Lets see pictures of your boards built using ...
Ikea sells a mini-blind made from raw paulownia. I take the slats, cut the middle part out so there aren't any cord holes, and glue them up into a skin.
It's actually pretty nice, they're already the right thickness and they're milled square, so there's no machining to do.
You can get enough slats out of one set to skin the top and most of the bottom of a 6' - 6'6" short board, fish, etc...
So two sets will get you enough to do one board easy and they're $20 each.
Thank you..that is exactly what I wanted to know! Thanks, D
Re: [mako224] Lets see pictures of your boards built using ...
Definately thought this thread would get more activity. Bump.
Re: [mako224] Lets see pictures of your boards built using ...
I agree. Let's see some more! I wish I could delete my last post on your thread, but I dunno how to do that. I just noticed that you asked for pics of the 'final product', I was all proud of myself and slammed up a bunch of half-ass unfinished board pics. So I got off my lazy ass and lined 'em up. #1, 2, and 3 have been decapitated or destroyed in a fit of rage, so needless to say, they are out to lunch.
willy wonkafrom left to right: #5, #7, #4 rebuild, #6.
Doctor SuessUuugh... another post from dpicton..sorry fellers, I am addicted to this site of yers