Press your own skatedeck. Ryan says its OT, ON TOPIC

[Tman]

Look at this guys site.

http://users.pandora.be/Toothless/Toothless/index.html


Samyiam expressed interest in this for his students, what a better way to repeat the cycle and make more kids into hot rodders!

[zman]

Cool, I've got few friends that press decks for a living. The pressed are real neat looking. The first ones that they had was nothing more than some screw clamps, now it's a big hydraulic thingy. Yes I said thingy. It's pretty neat to watch.... Though I'd rather ride...

[Broman]

I have access to an RF press through one of my best friends. I used to work a high end office furniture factory with him (maybe you've heard of it - HON). I used to make tubing from flat coils of steel for making chairs and desks and he used to make concave shaped wooden seats/seatbacks.

They make their own plywood and can shape a complex concaved seat in minutes using the RF press. Basically it's like a big microwave for cooking glue coated wood using radio frequencies (hence the RF). Neat to watch.

They stack up the "plys" crossing the grains by hand, toss 'em onto a "buck" then put the buck into the press. Push a button and *ding* minutes later you have a really curvy peice of plywood. That goes to a cutter who lines up the wood according to the curves and he puts a template over the wood and starts cutting it out. after he's done it goes to the final finish guy and then off to be coated with poly. Finally they go to assembly. Really cool chairs can be made in no time at all. Pretty amazing, but maybe not such a great longboard...

The running irony for working at a chair factory is that there is never a place to sit... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

[Toothless]

Hi all,

Sometimes I check the hits on my site and in the end I bumped into this site...always interesting to check what's happening...
What I explain on my site is a simple way to construct longboard decks...this means that there should be a way of having a go at constructing something usable in your living room, kitchen or workspace...
It would be indeed preferable to have machinery to press ply's into a fab deck or something wicked...but this is something that I can't cope with...I don't have the space nor the means of investing into those tools...I keep all this as a hobby and I'm not commercial...
It's good to see that people take interest in what I do and the satisfaction that results from it is indescribable...
Feel free to mail me or to propose other techniques or info that can be added to my site...
Sharing info on the net is the way to go!

Greeettzzz

Ive "toothless" Vandewalle
Antwerp, belgium, Europe
www.toothless.be.tf (http://www.toothless.be.tf)

[Big A]

There's some pretty damn cool stuff on that site.

Broman, it's funny I was checking out the site and thinking about furniture (I suck on a skateboard... and there are lots of old waterskis around if I want to make a long board).

Toothless, welcome to da HAMB. We like people who get shit done. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[Tman]

I'll be damned! Welcome to the HAMB.