First Snowboard…Redo!

For my next build, remember that messed up snowboard attempt? It’s a 145 cm snowboard with serrated edges, hybrid camber & olive ash veneer top sheet that I finished with teak oil and polyurethane! The core is 2.5 mm at the tips, 6 mm underfoot & 5 mm in the center. 6 parallel carbon fiber tows between the feet and 1″ wide carbon fiber strips from the outside binding inserts diagonally to the end of the running edges. It resulted in a good stiffness for a 5’6″ rider who weights about 120 lbs. This will be it’s replacement!

here’s the core & edges:

I like to pre-bend the edges face up before attaching to the base so that it just needs minor tweaks once it’s upside down.

here’s the edges going on:

and the raw veneer:

The veneer required 4 days to flatten because it was too kinked to go straight to pressing. I used supersoft from veneersupply to flatten it. (The beer was for extra flattening weight):

materials laid out, ready to press:

here it is in the press! I need to replace the exhaust filter on my vacuum pump:

The veneer didn’t soak all the way through with epoxy so I fixed it with teak oil:

here it is after cutting out and a couple more coats of teak oil:

laser engraving:

camber & sidewall shot: (I’m very happy with how the sidewalls came out this time! I finally routed them without accidentally gouging the board/ski!!!)

some finished pics. the only thing I’m not crazy about is how much of the insides you can see through the base – I think next time I will have to try whitewashing the top of the base material before pressing.

I used magnetic inserts for a couple of them so that it was easy to find with some metal powder.