Coil carbon/spectra ''concept'' board

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Hey Mike

So the spectra/carbon is actually knitted in the shape of the board…

Slide the blank in nose first, stitch it up at the tail…

Sort of like a stretch fabric/lycra sock…yes??

It was named "the sock’’ by Larry Pope before it was even finished. It looks like it’s in a board sock.

Didn’t have anything to do with the methodology of the lamination. But that’s a good theory.

Eric just smiled when I asked him.

Mike

Very nice.

"This board started with a handshaped EPS blank (shaped last Monday by yours truly), using a staged foil to induce flex

and provide volume in the center. It’s a 6’0’’ x 18 3/8’’ x 2 1/8’', similar to what several of my team guys ride. "

What is Staged Foil?

Thanks

Ray

Nasty Eric, he’s not my friend anymore!!!

witness the comeback of the stepdeck

nice board mike

looks so mean and sexy

That carbon “sock” reminds me a video I watch some months ago.

Someone glassed a Coke bottle (nice, curved, 3d,…) using just a CARBON SLEEVE.

He folded the bottle with the carbon sleeve, then cut the sleeve at the ends of the bottle, then stretched the carbon sleeve using his hands simply pulling the ends, then saturated with epoxy using a paintbrush.

When cured, he broke the bottle with a hammer and voiden the pieces.

Result: a perfect, clean, easy carbon Coke bottle.

I can’t find it now.

I guess carbon or glass sleeves could be used on surfboards, since they are build in the right dimmension.

Some links:

http://www.aerosleeves.com/

http://www.aerosleeves.com/Articles.asp?ID=108

‘‘Staged foil’’ is my term for something that craftee and silly and I (and others) have talked about on here.

The deck line, when viewed in profile, steps down in the nose and tail. This leaves a little ball of volume in

the center, and induces flex in the ends. If I ever get the file that has the decent profile shots, I’m going to

get them up in this thread. It’s very easy to see in this board. I think craftee and silly and benny have previously

posted pics of theirs.

Mike

mine was purely by accident

but im doing a rebuild with a purpose shaped step deck

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mine was purely by accident

but im doing a rebuild with a purpose shaped step deck

Right, silly. And your 5 lb compsands are accidents also? We’ve got good feedback on this, even though I don’t think

most riders realize it’s there, especially after they install a traction pad. Thin, sensitive tails are a prerequisite on modern

shortboards. This guts the tail of volume very effeciently, and induces flex.

BTW to all: Bert Rutan would just array the reinforcing fibers on the structure per stress analysis, skipping the weaving, etc. altogether.

            He's our hero. We're trying to save up the $5 mil or so we'll need to take this step. So far we have $26.17. 

Mike

We use that CF tubing for pushpoles and spars. (The uni directional sleeving, not the woven) Its easy stuff to work with.

Re staged foils…

‘step’ is such a goofy term.

I prefer staged, or humpback or tapered over step anyday.

But hey thats just me.

Here’s another one I just built…subtle humpback 7’9 mini longboard.



S-deck by any other name! I was wondering how long it would take for someone to try it on a “thruster”. Great looking board!

Do you mind me asking where the fiber came from and what the cost was? I would also be interested to know how the bond holds up with the spectra after some intensive riding. Keep us informed. Sick board btw.

Maybe this is braid technology?

http://www.braider.com/index_lo.html

I’ve got a video of braiding fibres around an object which I’ll try and post. It would be easy to do a board like this, but you’d need some serious technology…

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Do you mind me asking where the fiber came from and what the cost was? I would also be interested to know how the bond holds up with the spectra after some intensive riding. Keep us informed. Sick board btw.

Can’t answer your first question except to say that IF we offered it for sale (still needs to be tested) it tentatively would be a $150 option

over the base.

I plan to report back the unclassified portion of the test data, and we’re already talking about doing another one at our normal weight to test.

This one is pushing the limits, as I said in an earlier post.

Mike

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Maybe this is braid technology?

No, it’s not braid tech — see my previous Bert Rutan comments. Eric and Kirk plan to skip directly

to that method as soon as we save up the money.

This one is a carbon/spectra knitted hybrid fabric, that’s the truth.

Mike

I like it when Bert Rutan’s name gets thrown around here!

Coanda!

Would you call this foil a S deck?

That really cool Mike!

Lovin the out-there thinking.

Looking really clean as well!

Any crazy new stuff I do comes out ugly as an ape’s arse on the first try. Looks like you’ve nailed the cosmetics already.

Can’t wait for a ride report

Kit

maybe in the nose hicksy

but it wouldnt be through the tail

thats way to thick to allow for good flex in a sandwich board

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Any crazy new stuff I do comes out ugly as an ape’s arse on the first try. Looks like you’ve nailed the cosmetics already.

I can’t take credit for nailing the cosmetics, all I did was shape her. Kirk and Eric can do some amazing things with vacuum technology,

but they figured it out by ‘‘filling dumpsters with rejects’’, in their own words. Years of experience and research and brainstorming went

into this board. Thanks for the compliments.

Mike