Snowboard Builders thread

Darrick · **Joined:** Wed Jun 09, 2010 4:53 pm **Posts:** 64

After a few years of thinking about it and spending numerous hours on skibuilders.com I have finally decided to start building my own rides. I know a few of you on here are into that (Huck, Whitepine) and I'm sure there are a few more. I would like to see what everyone is making and hear about their experiences with board building.

I'm gonna start with a few solids(vacuum press at first) that I can split if they pass the resort test, then move making splits.

Let's see em!

ieism · **Posted:** Sat Apr 28, 2012 2:08 pm

I'm a beginner at this, I just started this week building my first solid. It will be a cross between my Libtech Dark, Jones Hovercraft and a Furberg.

Really enjoyed the designing part, but I just finished bending my edges and didn't like that nearly as much. It's a bit like decorating a x-mas tree with barbed wire. :lol:

Darrick · **Joined:** Wed Jun 09, 2010 4:53 pm **Posts:** 64

Nice! Keep posting on your progress. I'm gonna start making this board soon.

159 by DPRas1977, on Flickr[/img]

All arounder with blunt tip/tail and longer contact points
159cm
10m Sidecut
119 Effective Edge
8mm TAper

ieism · **Posted:** Tue May 01, 2012 1:53 pm

Cool. I know this isn't split related (yet) and belongs on skibuilders.com, but that place has some big ego's and it's not really my thing.

Specs:
length: 155
running length: 1045
Width: 28.8 / 25.9 / 27
Sidecut radius: 14 meters
Slight rocker flat between bindings / early rise

Darrick · **Joined:** Wed Jun 09, 2010 4:53 pm **Posts:** 64

It's relevant in my opinion. I'm definately making splits in the future. Hopefully some more people chime in.

mtnrider · **Posted:** Thu Sep 06, 2012 10:14 am

Nice thread guys, let's see some action.

Under the DIY section and the main forum if you search for some of my posts I have pics posted of my press and some of the boards I've made. It's A LOT of work but pretty rewarding to ride your own boards. Good luck. :thumpsup:

silver · **Posted:** Thu Sep 06, 2012 4:53 pm

Hey Darrick, that shape looks fun. What rocker/camber profile are you leaning towards?

BobGnarly · **Posted:** Thu Sep 06, 2012 6:08 pm

Im into board building too out here in Australia. Havent got it finished yet but im about half way through. The board is designed for japanese powder.

This is my board all drawn up, please excuse the poor image quality (screen shot)

And this is it CNC profiled, this is to be used as my template for building the board.

BobGnarly · **Posted:** Sun Nov 04, 2012 4:13 am

I made a bit more progress over the weekend on my build.

yogisnow · **Posted:** Mon Nov 05, 2012 2:38 am

looking good!!
What rocker, early rise or ? will she have.

BobGnarly · **Posted:** Mon Nov 05, 2012 3:38 am

I profiled the camber molds on the weekend too, I went with rocker between the bindings and camber outside with a big rocker nose. I guess you could call it early rise but Im not losing my front camber section to get it.

BobGnarly · **Posted:** Mon Nov 05, 2012 4:02 am

Its hard to tell from the pics but here they are anyway lol. I used the sidecut radius of the board to mark out the curves of the rocker/camber sections and then just freestyled the nose with a bit of flexible plastic strip that was laying around till it looked right. The tail and nose ends square up from where the 2 outside drilled holes are

BobGnarly · **Posted:** Mon Dec 17, 2012 4:15 pm

A few pics of my first board build, there were a few teething problems but Im pretty happy over all.

A few profiled cores ready for inserts

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