The original plan was to drop two very fine carbon pin-lines from nose to tail over the joins in the V-lam……

after seeing the character in the timber, old rotten mounting holes and a few decades of abuse I decided that all that was needed was a fresh hot coat.

First you will need to gather the required Ingredients….

… Annoying the neighbours!

This soundsystem has the same ported enclosure but to improve the output I have added an electronic cross over and Bi-amped the system to give a total of 40W of skateboard mounted noise! The system is powered from either a 12v internal battery (small and light with about 2 hours play time at full volume) or an external battery pack for longer skate session.

Here is a shot mid wiring that shows the two amps and the rear of the drivers. I have used spray foam to fill the backs of the top end pizeo horns to stop the heavy bass rattling the plastic. The enclosure is made from 15mm solid cedar, glued, screwed and filleted with epoxy to withstand the abuse it will see while skating. I have tuned the enclosure to have a little bit of a bass boost around 80-100 Hz to give this more punch when in an out door environment.

Currently I have a very basic preamp that has a line in, high and low gain, the ablitly to change the roll off of both the high and low outputs, a battry meter and very high quality volume pot. Over the next few weeks I want to add a few different line in jacks, audio source selector, Mic in, Headphone out, bass and treble control, mono/ stereo switch, about 6 light to show power to the amps and xover and to the fault warning from the amps and two very sexy blue vu panel meters!

While he may be a little on the short side, deep rippling Carnie concave and 15mm plush mount drops makes this little guy perfect for aggressive freeriding.

Wheel base : 700mm

Length : 900mm

Width at the shoulders : 250mm

Under his tight red and black cotton suit hides a balsa core and mixture of glass and carbon skin and six separate internal torsion boxes.

A few sleek Kevlar and carbon pinlines assures this body building midget will out shine any competition.

While he may be short and hard his thick skins give succulent responsiveness to whomever is atop his deep W concave.

Small, nimble and looking rather slick…

I have floated the last clear tonight  so tomorrow morning before work I hope to have enough time to buff this board out as I cant wait to see the new logo that has a slight metal flake to lift the badge off the black and red silk finish.

This board is a shortened Little Mr bigwood with a 15mm plush mount, 700mm wheel base, 250mm wide and a deep W concave.

Lets bring the noise !!!!

I am trying to find time this weekend to try to wire a second amp into the mix and double the current wattage.

Many thanks to Bill for dropping some very yummy spray work on the little guy down below and listing as we swing from “its got to have noting on it, just clean lines and nothing extra” all the way to ” Hay man you know what this thing really needs?…. Lots of switches, dials, lights, spaces to plug things in and oh ya lots more switches”

Riders come in many different shapes and sizes and so should their boards….

This board is a tiny 700mm wheel base balsa core plush mount board with deep W concave and a full wrap fabric bottom skin. At the moment it is still sitting in the workshop waiting for the infusion disposables to be ripped off and hot coat floated over its rolling curves.

wow, I managed to play with fire, propane, oxygen AND highly explodable canisters of butane all in the poor ventilation of my little laboratory… Didn’t even blow my self up or sustain any major burns… Missing a few eye lashes but no major burns!

This photo shows the water being heated and coming to a boil, this creates steam and pressure that forces the remaining hot water up the siphon tube where it cools to the low 90’s,  saturates the awaiting coffee grounds and starts the brewing process.

Once the brewing is completed the flame is removed causing the bottom camber to cool, the steam to colapse and vacuume to form drawing the liquid into the bottom and leaving all ground in top vessle . The above photo shows the water being held in the top vessle with vertualy no extra bubble to start reheating the brew water after kick-up giving the barista better control of the taste in the resulting cup of extremely clear delicious single origin coffee.

Starting to build a burner for a Hario siphon.

I would like to remove the extra bars on the top of the pot stand and take the ugly gas line out in order to exchange it for a copper line. The other option could be to remove all of the legs and take the gas line into a small enclosure that houses the gas bottle and just have the mushroom burner extending from the top.

The next board from the labs has a central carbon shear web, glass skins , balsa core and wood rails in a corseted template with 15mm drops, deep double U concave and a feather print fabric bottom.

This board has a small amount of flex for carving and at 1.35kg un gripped it will be easy to lug back to the top of the hill.

The feather print looks fantastic and as I only have a few boards worth will make this a very unique board.