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Step 3Truck support inserts
You'll need solid wood for attaching the trucks.
Make sure you measure where you want your trucks very very carefully. The bigger inserts you use the more solid they'll be. Wherever you stick them, make sure you take careful notes about where they are located in relationship to the nose, tail, sides, etc.. You'll need to know where they are later.
Once I got my locations, I just routered out a couple of holes the size of the plywood chunks I was using, and fitted the plywood chunks into place. If you don't have a router, you could also just use a box knife to outline them in the foam, then dig the foam out with a screwdriver or something.
Don't worry about gluing down the truck support inserts yet.
You'll notice in the photo that the deck has "sprung back" from the mold a little, especially at the nose and tail. That's ok, that's why you use the mold for each step, by the time you vac on the last lamination, it will keep the shape of the mold just fine.
Make sure you measure where you want your trucks very very carefully. The bigger inserts you use the more solid they'll be. Wherever you stick them, make sure you take careful notes about where they are located in relationship to the nose, tail, sides, etc.. You'll need to know where they are later.
Once I got my locations, I just routered out a couple of holes the size of the plywood chunks I was using, and fitted the plywood chunks into place. If you don't have a router, you could also just use a box knife to outline them in the foam, then dig the foam out with a screwdriver or something.
Don't worry about gluing down the truck support inserts yet.
You'll notice in the photo that the deck has "sprung back" from the mold a little, especially at the nose and tail. That's ok, that's why you use the mold for each step, by the time you vac on the last lamination, it will keep the shape of the mold just fine.
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