I have been spending a lot of time on Silverfish Longboarding and visiting various forums for the help and assistance of my fellow longboarders on line. So as a disclaimer I have been following the advice of articles given to me through the advice of people online and using youtube videos to help aid in my learning and designing of the board press and process of cutting and shaping the deck.
(as a note on the broken board above and my actual board below you can see that that board has the grain running length wise which is ideal for weight supporting strength and allows for a good concave bend to stand on. If I ran the grain 90 degrees to what is shown above that would be ideal for giving flexibility to a kick tail bend)
Now I got really excited here and forgot to take picture (too wrapped up in my work). But I created a design template for the skateboard deck traced it out onto my boards and cut it out using a jigsaw.
Then I used a drum sander to smooth out the edges and give the Prototype board its final shape.
Future work to be done and learn:
1. Create a design for the underside of the board.
2. Drill holes for the bolts to fit that will hold the trucks on to the board.
3. Learn to Fiberglass. Fiberglassing the bottom of the board will give strength without adding too much extra weight and not sacrifice the boards flexibility.
4. Add a Poly to the top of the deck to seal it from the elements.
5. Apply grip tape to the top of the Deck.
6. Redo entire process to make new boards to sell on amazon.