home made concave skate

liquidfool · Addict Joined: 15 Jun 2003 Posts: 668 City: borelando

whats the best way to get concave in a home made wakeskate? i was thinking about using long thin pieces of wood down each side and sanding them to half circles ^-----^ like that but sanded round...anyone have experience doing something like this or anything better...also any have any good ideas for kicktails?

DJew Jake · Posted: Oct 19, 2003 11:08 am Post subject:

Why not try a new non-wood material if you have accsess mabey honeycomb aluminum.

DJew Jake · Posted: Oct 19, 2003 11:09 am Post subject:

Or if you intend to make it from wood instead of plywood why not try a a core mad eup of longitudinal pine strips, witha fibre glass braid, the same way high-end snow skis are made.

pooser · Wakeboarder.com Freak Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 4738

you can cut a block of wood into two congtuent triangles and then glue it to the board and sand it and it works well.

TL · Newbie Joined: 15 Dec 2003 Posts: 19 City: Christchurch

I made this board with 3 layers of 4mm marine plywood, and after taking it out of the jig added a 7mm ply strip on each side and sanded to blend them in, was looking at mutiny boards when I made it so thats where I got the idea from - and why they look like a cross between two of the mutiny board concave edges.

I also added 4mm sections to the four corners and blended them in to make channels like the byerly 04

I used EVA foam for the top -works real well but need to ensure that the edges of the foam are back from the edge of the board or really well glued (or both) as first decent crash I had the front of the foam pulled up on one corner and put a rip ~1 inch long down the middle of the foam on the nose (fixed it now) not quite as grippy as tape (obviously)

HaveNewACL · Outlaw Joined: 21 Dec 2003 Posts: 207 City: Richland

thats pretty awsome my friends and i are going to try to make a wake skate out of fiberglass but i think your idea might work better. whatever i guess wel have to try both ways. i also have no idea how to make it concave except you would have to build a jig with a concave curve to it

ogc-2 · Outlaw Joined: 10 Oct 2003 Posts: 111

thats alot better job than the board me and my friend made!! that going to ride nice Very Happy

TL · Newbie Joined: 15 Dec 2003 Posts: 19 City: Christchurch

If you want to make it concave without adding extra wood panels or making a complicated jig, glue together layers of foam (like what I did with wood above) then sand it with an orbital sander, works pretty good, glue onto ur board and then put the grip surface over the top (glue a single sheet of eva or put grip tape on). Just remember to glue the edges firmly and preferably sand a slope in the foam around the edges so that water doesnt rip it up.

otiswunguy · Addict Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 871 City: Sammamish

2 part polyurethane would also work. nice skate tl.

HaveNewACL · Outlaw Joined: 21 Dec 2003 Posts: 207 City: Richland

i think two part foam is going to have problems sturctualy, you are going to have to fiberglass the hell out of the thing