Wooden press Slalom Board

[Justin Readings]

i swear, thats not one of my best paintjobs.... actually one of my worste luke said he dint care and he needed the board so i did some quick experimenting....

[Luke Melo]

- Luke

[Justin Readings]

sorry for late response dont come here often... it was not a toothless... it is much easyer to makes more sense.

i would post pictures... but i dont have any. ill take some when i get a camera.

i've got wood in a press now and am working on a new shape and better finish than my first and second. luke also now has a board with his shape. if he wants to post pics that would be cool.


and luke not cause i fell first run cause its snowy i can still skate... im not riding in salt.

thanks for the comments.
justin

[Justin Pannulla]

Looks like my Powell.

[Nick Chamberlain]

nice job on it then. Its probably one of the most complex shapes Ive seen come from a toothless press

[Luke Melo]

sorry for this answer justin.

he used a toothless press and 1/8 veneers of baltic birch.

[Nick Chamberlain]

just wondering if you have any pics of the press, or if not what style did you use and what kind of wood?

[Luke Melo]

haha Claude! maybe someday i will catch up to you. i have another 1/2 year to train! bring it on, yo

[Claude Regnier]

Justin they look realy nice. Trial and error will make a perfect board for your liking and style.

Keep it up. I'm looking forward to seeing your stuff this year in Ottawa.

Luke! Watch it! I read that post about coming after me. LOL - I'll get my Grandson to get you.

[Luke Melo]

its also really hard to test out now because of the snow.

and cause you fell last slalom session on the first run

[Justin Readings]

I moved the truck back today, but did not move the front back enough, the wheel base is now a little bigger than i would like it to be. its also really hard to test out now because of the snow.

[Dave Gale]

I'd narrow the tail a tad..and yes,I'd mount the rear truck more on the tail and de wedge it

[Nick Chamberlain]

I think he means it has too much kick after the rear truck, where as boards like the axe only have like 3 inches between the rear bolts and the end of the board

[Justin Readings]

Do you think even the second board has to much tail? i found the first one was to wide but i havent mounted the second one yet.

[Bas de Man]

not to put it down or annything. But it looks like it would be more at home in a pool than with slalom. Tail's to big for my liking.

[Justin Readings]

Hello everybody, i dont post here alot but i do look at quite a bit of the info on here.
I made this board in a wooden press and this is the first one i pulled out. i then painted it and started riding and so far it feels great.

the length is 29" at the widest 9"

Front


Side


Front Truck


Bottom


Bottom


I then decided there wasn't enough concave changed my press and pulled out another board.
This is the second board that i made in my press. it has slightly more concave and a thinner tale. the tale is about 8" wide.

Concave


Concave


Side


Bottom


Front


the top ply of this board got glued to the press so it pulled off a thin ply on the top. i filled it with wood filler.

i was wondering what everyone here though about the shape and general design, and if you had any things that i could change to make it better.