Now, what about the mold?
I've always had a wish to do something, anything. I thought about making a skateboard but it was unreachable for me at the time - I didn't know anything about it. But the idea, the BIG wish to make my own skateboard, remained somewhere.
It all began when my little brother found a dude on the internet who made his very first and very own board in the carpentry class . That was "awesome" or "hep" according to my verbiage and vocabulary back then. I was psyche'd. I found out that it could be done in home environment. And as simple as that.
Me and my brother were already skating a few years at the time and the old used boards were always lying around somewhere. I took some old AWS board and drew the concave and kicktails on a piece of wood. Then carved it out with chisel. Upper and lower half of the mold separately.
I was eager to upgrade the shape of the board - someone told me that it was no good. So I made another mold using planks and jigsaw (now I have 4 of them). I just drew several shapes of the board on the planks and glued them together at the end.
Wood has a disadvantage - it swells when it get's a little amount of water or stays in the unheated room. It sorbs the humidity, get's randomly bigger and the hubbles arise. Fine filler make's it all go away for a while but not forever.
The one and only, the easyest way to make a mold is to use cement, sand, water, reinforcing wire and a mold into where the components are effused. For the mold-for-concrete-mold You can use an uncut skateboard blank. Build a tight box around it, effuse the liquid cement-water-sand compound into the mold-for-concrete-mold with the reinforcing wire and wait when it's dry.
I've always had a wish to do something, anything. I thought about making a skateboard but it was unreachable for me at the time - I didn't know anything about it. But the idea, the BIG wish to make my own skateboard, remained somewhere.
It all began when my little brother found a dude on the internet who made his very first and very own board in the carpentry class . That was "awesome" or "hep" according to my verbiage and vocabulary back then. I was psyche'd. I found out that it could be done in home environment. And as simple as that.
Me and my brother were already skating a few years at the time and the old used boards were always lying around somewhere. I took some old AWS board and drew the concave and kicktails on a piece of wood. Then carved it out with chisel. Upper and lower half of the mold separately.I was eager to upgrade the shape of the board - someone told me that it was no good. So I made another mold using planks and jigsaw (now I have 4 of them). I just drew several shapes of the board on the planks and glued them together at the end.
Wood has a disadvantage - it swells when it get's a little amount of water or stays in the unheated room. It sorbs the humidity, get's randomly bigger and the hubbles arise. Fine filler make's it all go away for a while but not forever.
The one and only, the easyest way to make a mold is to use cement, sand, water, reinforcing wire and a mold into where the components are effused. For the mold-for-concrete-mold You can use an uncut skateboard blank. Build a tight box around it, effuse the liquid cement-water-sand compound into the mold-for-concrete-mold with the reinforcing wire and wait when it's dry.
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