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My project over the next couple of weeks is to make a press, but in the meantime I found my dads old set of waterskis that will soon be fitted with some trucks and wheels. Here they are glued with 6 inches cut off the back end. They are now 60x6.  Stained with a couple coats of finish.  Profile of the one I am keeping.  Nice pic of it out side.
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Jul 23, 2010 23:27
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the Mods, they knew!
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I think they are solid teak, with a thin slice of maple laminated in the curve. They should have a bit of natural flex. I am trying to decide where to put the trucks at. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmFavaWtUcE&NR=1 I like where these are placed but I don't know if the old Teak can handle that much bend.
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Jul 23, 2010 23:54
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I started my long board press today, and am making it out of reclaimed oak planks. I also picked up some cheap plywood at the lumber supplier, these are all topsheets from when stuff is shipped, it will be perfect for some test decks.  It included a sheet of baltic birch.   Here is the largest piece of oak after being planed and having one side jointed.  Here is the cut up pile of plywood, cut in 4 1/2 foot and 3 1/2 respectively. The longest one is for the bottom of the press.  A couple test curves.  The 3 1/2 foot birch.  Hopefully by tomorrow evening I will have a test board in the press, and can be riding around on a ghetto plywood board by the end of the week.
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Jul 27, 2010 06:41
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Obscuritatem posted:Nice project, I'm liking this and the waterski mod. It'll be good to see how they turn out. A friend of mine made a DIY press and his (old skool shaped) deck actually turned out quite nice. I remember he had a problem with the glue or something so it fell to bits fairly quickly though. Yeah I have access to several glues at the moment since I repair furniture. The press solid as gently caress, but I need to do some research into what glue I need to buy board wise. As far as wood goes my neighbor works at the lumber supplier so as soon as I have cash I am ordering some maple, bamboo, and baltic birch. I got 3 pics taken before my camera decide to give up the ghost.    Then I finished assembly last night and and put a couple of pieces of ply in to test the shape. The reclaimed oak is pretty, since its all weathered and full of worm holes. :nature: Pics are horrible because I had to use photobooth on my hackentosh netbook. Empty Press  top of press  2 sheets of ply glued with 4 hour epoxy    Crappy blank ready to cut.  The plan is to try to make a drop thru, I just need to borrow my buddies boards so I can make some traces. It looks pretty smooth except, that I need to take the belt sander to the press an fix the angle on a couple of the ribs. All this was done with out any plans except for looking at the toothless page. http://users.telenet.be/Toothless/Toothless/pages/instructions/press/press.html When you make stuff out of scraps and reclaimed wood it means you have to just MacGyver it and go with your gut.
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Jul 28, 2010 21:45
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RobotEmpire posted:I just want to say I had something to acknowledge the hard work of the DIYers in the thread lately other than, "Wow." Unfortunately I don't have any frame of reference, so all I'll say is, wow! Here is a frame of reference. http://www.silverfishlongboarding.com/forum/longboard-board-building/ I should have some of the cheap plywood test boards cut out tomorrow. Next week I plan on making a vlam board in that press with whatever wood I have lying around. Hopefully I can find a piece of birdseye maple and some tiger oak. I started these projects because my goon friend got me hooked a couple weeks ago. Before that I never got into any kind of boarding. I think it was because my first boarding experience was when I was 5 I took oldschool plastic board down a hill, and all I remember is it not ending well. Growing up in rural Idaho with no where to board was also a big part of it.
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Jul 31, 2010 00:52
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I did a little waterski board work last night. I used some brass enamel in my baby spray gun and it turned out amazing.    
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Aug 8, 2010 22:13
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My goon friend told me the other day that he would take me up on my offer of a trade for his pintale. He wanted brass trucks on his, which is why I decided to do some test painting on mine. We cleaned off the pin tale recently so I have some plans of putting a veneer on the bottom to class it up a pit.
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Aug 8, 2010 22:56
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I got the 2 mini test boards cut out today! Aslo while I had access to the shop I made a pintail out of a solid piece of reclaimed white oak. Complete with rough cut saw marks, the board was old and had developed a natural concave to it.   It has some antique nail holes in it, but I will put filler epoxy in them before its finished.     Dimensions are 9"x50" and it's a bit heavy. I have some shaping to do on the bottom and that will lighten it up a bit.
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Aug 10, 2010 01:36
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