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Home built longboard

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custom maple deck with mahogany inlays

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Oct 27, 2011. 3:45 PMlerickson says:

I actually press my own using a DIMM press. I have a facebook group called Chillax Longboards. I am starting to sell on ebay and customs.

May 27, 2011. 3:34 AM

Kryptonite says:

Looks incredible! Nice job, kudos on the effort and overall win.
What was the method of make? Laminating? Carving? I'm planning on making a longboard so I'm looking at different methods; what was yours?

May 28, 2011. 9:13 AMjust mike (author) says:

Thanks man. it was a fun project and i'm proud of the outcome.
I laminated, it has concave but no kick tail. the whole thing is made from scraps i collected while working at a saw mill. some might call it going green, i call it poor bot Ingenuity. so i guess it wasn't a usual method, more like making a skate out of a jigsaw puzzle. i glued thin scraps into panels then planed and sanded them as flat and thin as i could. i had the advantage of access to a fully loaded commercial wood shop. there's four layers just under 1/8". i made my press out of wood covered with wax so the board cant stick to the press. rub skate wax on it and set it in the sun till the wax melts and soaks in i did like three coats. i used C-clamps to provide pressure.

Sep 30, 2011. 12:38 PMpyoung4 says:

how do you get the concave in the longboard?

May 29, 2011. 3:54 AM

Kryptonite says:

Nice, I'm planning on sourcing some baltic birch and making a longboard of my own, hopefully it'll turn out ok!

Sep 16, 2011. 4:28 PM

CUclimbing says:

That is sick! it looks factory made. I'm working on making a longboard from scratch too. I really like the two stripes on the bottom, how did you do that?

Jun 1, 2011. 8:39 PMhunterman1996 says:

how did you do the inlays?

May 23, 2008. 10:57 AMnathangill says:

Dude... This isn't an instructable. I understand you want to show it off, but without the "how to" element, it doesn't belong here

May 24, 2008. 12:38 PMjust mike (author) says:

Dude....I know it's not an Instructable, it's a slide show. I'm not trying to show off , I'm trying to meet other board builders! If you want an Instructable look at the Instructables not the slide shows. Who are you to say what belongs here?

May 11, 2011. 8:30 PMThe nerdling says:

i'm a board builder, my board is blue with a white star in the bottom and white stripes on top.
i did a trhick layer of paint and it wrinkled and i don't need griptape.
LONGBOARDS ARE THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!

May 28, 2011. 8:24 AMjust mike (author) says:

RIDDING BOARD YOU BUILD IS THE BEST!!!

May 31, 2011. 6:57 PMThe nerdling says:

it is springy so it has a really smooth ride.
the bearings are skooter bearings so they scrape on the edge of the bolt and truck

May 23, 2011. 7:05 AMdaknobie says:

How did you get the inlays into the board? I'm looking to build a board like this, and I love the way the inlays look. So if you'd be willing to share that little bit of information, it would be awesome. They style you chose for your design is really cool too. How does it ride?

May 28, 2011. 8:52 AMjust mike (author) says:

I made this board out of scraps when i was working at a saw mill. i glued up strips of maple (strips is all i had) to make a panel with two strips of mahogany sandwiched in the middle. when the glue dried i planed and sanded it as thin as possible. i got it just under 1/8" by using a big drum sander machine and stacking another panel under it to get lower than the lowest setting on the machine. a little thicker than the usual veneer panels but it still bent without cracking.
not sure if that's the best way to go. I had never done inlays and i was working with scraps so i just kind of made it up as i went along and got lucky. i hope that helps.
I was going for a vintage surfboard style. got got the idea for that tail shape from the surfboards in the movie Lords of Dogtown.
i never got a chance to ride it. i sold it to a friend and he moved away before he set it up. he called me and said he loves it and i think hes still skating it.

Jun 15, 2008. 10:29 AMknex hater hater says:

Hello,i am also into longboards and that kinds of stuff,i have also made a homemade longboard out of a plain skateboard deck and some tracker trucks and some wheels, i have picture and video of it,it is a lowrider,in the pictures and videos it is version 1 and 3, v2 is missing because it didnt do anything. please give back responce,thankyou.

May 21, 2010. 7:58 PMaustntexan says:

Hey knex, what does this ride like? I've got a deck sitting around and I was thinking of doing something with it. I like the cut out. Very interested. Thanks!

Aug 21, 2008. 9:01 AMBam Bam says:

That's called a Shlongboard.
Very fun to ride indeed.

For all you longboarders out there, check out http://www.skatefurther.com and get on a board!

Jul 11, 2008. 10:10 AMTeacherOfTheWays says:

dude awesome! Please join my group! longboarding

Jun 15, 2008. 1:36 PMjust mike (author) says:

Cool, good idea. how does it ride? you can get it a little lower if you drop the trucks through the deck. check out these sites:

http://users.pandora.be/Toothless/Toothless/pages/instructions/speed/speed.html

http://www.silverfishlongboarding.com/Articles/Tech_Articles/How_to_make_a_flush_mount_drop_through/

Jun 16, 2008. 4:18 PMknex hater hater says:

hmmm,thats a good idea,ive' seen the dropthough teqnique before,like on some of the products at landyachtz.com. that does seem like a good idea though, ill try it out on one of my decks,and the board is about 2 and a half inches off the ground, it rides very smooth on the street and sidewalk,but sometimes the wheels get jammed on little tiny rocks, thanks for the advice.

Jul 1, 2008. 7:12 AMjust mike (author) says:

have you tried bigger wheels? they don't get jammed as easy, and they are faster

Jul 7, 2008. 3:30 PMknex hater hater says:

im trying to get some retros, but the problem is that the wheel is very wide,and its ment for skate parks

Oct 20, 2009. 5:32 AMZaphod Beeblebrox says:

hav u put trucks on by now?

Feb 3, 2010. 12:41 PMZaphod Beeblebrox says:

Mar 7, 2010. 10:16 AMZaphod Beeblebrox says:

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May 21, 2009. 11:55 AMSoupster says:

I am longboard maker too.... I just made a new one look for the how to vid coming soon to Youtube ...look up Posiedon9!

Jan 31, 2010. 1:25 PMjust mike (author) says:

good stuff! looks like fun. it makes me want to go skate, but our streets are shit this time of year. I cant wait for SLC to come out of the deep freeze

Jan 31, 2010. 10:20 AMZaphod Beeblebrox says:

hey ur not bad!

Aug 5, 2009. 8:02 PMposerboy123 says:

sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dec 5, 2008. 8:29 PMcorkey123 says:

I have made about 7 functional longboards using a few different techniques, the vacuum bag, the toothless press, and a few of my own versions of the toothless press to achieve bends and angles like an Evo, as well as concave and camber. or a slide deck. you said you were looking to meet other board builders :)

Dec 15, 2008. 1:48 PMjust mike (author) says:

cool man! do you have any pics? I just got a vacuum bag but I haven't tried it yet because I don't have a garage and its to cold to work outside in salt lake city now. slide deck you say, what kind of features would make a board better for sliding?

Dec 15, 2008. 3:34 PMcorkey123 says:

yeah, I got lots of pics, i think... e-mail? a slide deck is pretty much a long, fat skateboard fliptrick deck, double kick and whatnot. I'm on the coast, and in the same predicament, its snowing here, and my basement is 4.5 feet tall - not so good to work in, nowhere to do any messy projects.

Aug 13, 2008. 6:10 PMSuperCoPilot says:

i haven't seena good homemade long board in years dude great job

Aug 13, 2008. 3:40 PMelitehaxor says:

there is a diffret way to make these that im gonna try i might poste an instructablle on it, anyway what it is is you make a cross chaped hole where the trucks go so some of ther truck is on the top of the board so you have a lower center of gravity

May 22, 2008. 4:26 PMpyro13 says:

Awsome idea! please put up instructions and pictures of the steps please? I was looking at buying one, but if i can make one, it is all the better =D<br/>

Jul 11, 2008. 10:10 AMTeacherOfTheWays says:

Please join my group! longboarding

Jul 11, 2008. 1:01 PMpyro13 says:

Thanks!

May 22, 2008. 7:14 PMjust mike (author) says:

check out Toothless Longboard Construction. I used a process kind of like that guy's simple press

May 22, 2008. 9:51 PMmasterochicken says:

You mean the screws? I saw that along time ago but I would rather use clamps.

Jul 1, 2008. 7:21 AMjust mike (author) says:

no, i didn't use screws. i made a press out of wood and clamped the board between. just remember to rub wax all over both sides of the press so when extra glue comes out of the layers, you don't glue the board to the press.

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