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Hi and welcome to ”Garage”

Finally longboard.eu, in corporation with Dr Longboard, opens the garage door to ”Garage”. Dr Longboard, is a professional designer of longboards and has taken on the responsibility to act as editor of ”Garage”. There you will find many hints and ideas to be considered, if you get the idea to design your own longboard. You will also find many useful articles and news and meet other longboard designers. Later on, we will develop “Garage”, so longboard designers may have the possibility to their own room, where they can present there own design as well as discuss and exchange experience, choice of wheels, trucks, etc. You will find that we will welcome facts about your weight and height, style of skating and so on. This would help us and our readers to understand to what specification you have designed your longboard. All boards are different. It can be made for a 100 lbs or a 200 lbs longboarder.You will also have the possibility to present photos of your own favourite spots, and give ideas to nice cruising and so on.We do hope that you would feel at home in “Garage”, and that it would also create feedback to you.

Regards

Carl-Fredrik Hunyadi

alias Dr Longboard

2008-04-04

Now finally, “Garage” is complete. Now it is up to you – “all board designers” – to show up and disclose your capability in designing boards.

/Markus, Stewa and Morre

The new editor of ”Garage”

My name is Carl-Fredrik, born in 1988. I finished handicraft education at upper secondary school last spring. There my interest for designing boards was born.

I discovered skating only some two years ago. Quite soon my interest was raised to make my own boards. What else could be worth while living for if not to design and make boards.

I was quite lucky in that, when old “Sofo Longboards” went bankruptcy, I grabbed the chance and bought the bankrupt’s estate for a fair price and started up again as “Dr. Longboard”. Now I have run the company since September last year and her new strange ideas are continuously born.

My shop combined with a workshop has a space of some 200 square meters and is situated at Kocksgatan 18 in Stockholm. On the same address I have a colleague running a company named “Lowlife”, selling skating clothes and low riders.

Carl-Fredrik Hunyadi alias Dr Longboard.

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Hi and welcome to ”Garage”Dr Longboards hints from the ”Garage”

Designing a longboard can be done in many different ways. You can either make it the easy way or the hard way.

Lesson 1 – Selection of material and thickness

It is rather easy to select the right thickness of your longboard. Different thickness gives different flex to your longboard.

9 mm thickness for a weight of less than 120 lbs
12 mm for a weight between 121 – 189 lbs
14 mm for a weight above 190 lbs

If you follow this, it will give you a good flex if you are a cruiser.

There are two ways to make the board.

Alternative 1 - Veneer sheets of about 1 mm thickness are glued together. The more layers of veneer sheets you use the thicker board you get. This is the more expensive alternative as you have to glue many layers of veneer.

Alternative 2 - A cheaper alternative is to buy plywood of the thickness you want for your board or may be plywood sheets of different thicknesses and glue them together to get the thickness you aim at. This will be much cheaper because, plywood is a cheaper material in comparison to veneer. A good choice of material is birch, a strong and reasonably flexible material.

Lesson 2 – Shaping the board

How difficult it is to make the shape of your board, varies of course with what shape you want. If you want a simple straight board without shaping, I would recommend you to buy a sheet of plywood, which corresponds to the board thickness you want. This is to avoid unexpected configuration, which you can get when you glue many veneer layers.

If you want to shape your board, this can be done in two different manners.

1. Make a mould of the shape you want, in Styrofoam. When the mould is finished, you layer veneer sheets and glue to the mould and by means of a vacuum device, in form of a plastic bag around the form and veneer layers, you suck the veneer sheets together and let it dry in the correct shape. This method can only be used for veneer sheets not for plywood.
2. As an alternative you can make a press in wood. This is a little bit more difficult as the press has two parts, one male and one female part, to fit into each other. When you have made the press with the shape you want, you put the veneer sheets or plywood together with glue, in the press and push the two halves together, with help of for example clamps.

Lesson 3 - Do I want to decorate my board?

To get a nice motive on the board you can either paint your motive to it, in water-soluble colour or glue a photo or other picture to the board. After that you varnish your board to get a nice finish

Good luck
Carl-Fredrik Hunyadi
alias Dr Longboard

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