Corner 4 complete

Finished the second layer on corner 4 this weekend. We now have a really tight bowl, fully skateable/carveable, with 2 layers of 1/4 inch osb laid down (and flaking away exponentially as I skate this thing more and more). The thought now is to use 1/4 ply, one side sanded, for the final skin. We still got some masonite but we're going to hold on that, feeling that the mini monster could use that extra strength from the ply. May take the masonite back or just hold it for future use. Also gotta get to town on the coping. Sorry about the blurry pic, hopefully some more pics or video to come. Oh yeah, keef made some man-steps to get into the bowl. I haven 't taken a pic of that yet. And probably won't.

Hommies gotta skate

Well, we took about 10 days off so I could go on a skate mission to New Jersey. Lance had to stay home - he's on 24 hour call for the next 2 weeks. But we did get after it the other night. We worked really late, 2am, but got a lot done.



I'll put up a Jersey post tonite. Stay warm

Another late, cold night

But we still got somethings done. Due to Lance's hard work last week (see previous post), we were able to cut the arcs and build the last corner. While Lance and keef got that going, I started the layer on corner 3. We didnt' get as much accomplished as we wanted, nevertheless, we were still pretty psyched to see the progress. Now I just have to convince the wife to let me out one more time before next weekend!

I gotta tell ya, building this without a "floor system" is proving to be the biggest problem. This is because the templates all float. So we tack and pre-assemble the corner and everything looks great, then we trace out the arcs, then we unassemble, cut the arcs and put it together for the final time. But, of course, when we put it back together, it doens't look quite as good as it did before. Gaps just tend to show up out of nowhere. That's kinda the drawback to the method we're using, but on the plus side, this thing is nothing but a bunch of 1/4 pipes and will be easy (knock on wood) to disassemble when the time comes.

last week

knocked out some ribs over the course of the week in prep for keef and pj to come over on the weekend. slow start and got progressively motivated. standard camera phone blurriness...

Locked in...

Well, I didn't post the results from over the last weekend because it didn't look that impressive. Because we don't have a frame to work off of, we have to set the corners in the right place - which can be tough and is def. time consuming.

But it is official. The final corner is now in place. Lance needs to upload photos (if he feels like it), but since this picture was taken, he has completed a bunch more rows. Hopefully after this saturday, we'll have an updated photo - and a bowl completely framed out.

So, if you want in, you now have to climb over.

Teaser

Just a tiny sample of the madness we got our selves into...

things just keep getting better

With the help of Seth we were able to rip through the third corner. 3 sets of hands made the difference... Keef, we expect big things.


This kinda gives you an idea of what we're working in... it's pretty much a boat.


We are able to get some kickturns in and what not, but the thing that really sucks is that until it's done, we really can't skate it the way we want to. But when this side is done... damn.