Will a carved wakeskate work?

tyn · Pop Shuvit Joined: 12 Oct 2008 Posts: 135 City: Orlando

Just wondering if anyone ever tried it...most of the wooden wakeskates I know are glued...why glue it if you can carve?

Gnarly Dancer 42 · 360 flip Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 5121 City: kalamazoo

hmmm interesting

seems like it might be really heavy.......but i guess that depends on what type of tree you're using Exclamation

counterpart · Frontside 180 Joined: 09 Jun 2009 Posts: 266 City: 661

Im pretty sure pressed boards offer more pop than one thats just carved out of a solid block... and with pressed you can use different types of wood with different thicknesses and different flex ratings that would make the board ride differnet i guess... Just what im thinking... i have no clue.

Jay Bird · Posted: May 31, 2010 11:47 pm Post subject:

counterpart, sounds legit

Kay-Kay · Posted: Jun 01, 2010 9:43 am Post subject:

carve? like with a knife?

plywood offers the benefit of not having a preferential grain direction. With solid wood there is going to be a direction where the material is substantially weaker. I don't believe it would be much of a factor on wakeskates because the majority of the stresses are applied in one direction.

Are you thinking about "carving" out the rocker or just the concave? Because the deck would be too thick to bend the rocker into it, and carving the rocker in would result in a lot of wasted wood.

jcoffey · Backside 180 Joined: 24 May 2008 Posts: 1339

i dont know how much material is wasted making a wakeskate, but i imagine carving it would make more waste and take a very long time unless you have access to some expensive equiptment

Raven · Posted: Jun 01, 2010 8:15 pm Post subject:

i'm thinking it may warp...unless you seal the pizzness out of it. although i have often thought of trying

do it......

and hook us up with some pics player Cool

tyn · Pop Shuvit Joined: 12 Oct 2008 Posts: 135 City: Orlando

Kay-Kay, I'm thinking of carving the whole wakeskate, from its rocker to its concave. I don't really care much about how much wood will be put to waste coz we'll prolly find a solution for that. By now I'm more concerned about it's possibility to work like the pressed one. Tho I heard from others that it may break easily, like what you've said which makes sense. But those are just hypothetical (maybe..idk). Unless someone has tried it already. So, it's prolly worth a try.

jcoffey, idk but from the place I live in, pressing would take so much time than carving it.

Thanks a lot guys for the inputs! If it works I'll let you know but if you don't hear from me again, it prolly sucks! Hahaha!

DRAGON88 · Dragoon Joined: 01 May 2004 Posts: 1020 City: Portland

tyn, seems to me that a wakeskate with woodgrain only going in one direction would warp like crazy.

tyn · Pop Shuvit Joined: 12 Oct 2008 Posts: 135 City: Orlando

DRAGON88, uhm so that's why all wooden wakeskates are all pressed? Not just to get the desired rocker or concave?

I'm sorry I don't really know much coz if I do this thread won't be made.

Schmaltz · Backside 180 Joined: 16 Sep 2003 Posts: 721 City: San Jose

if the grain splits from the water... which it will do... the skate will split apart the whole way thru and break... unless you use wood with a super tight grain like teak... but then you will still get warping... regardless of what you use.

Mr. Top Hat · Dead Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 5818

I always thought that a lot of a boards stregnth actually came from the glue between the plys.

POPTART · 360 flip Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 7621

well considering some of the first surf boards were carved, and a lot of the first canoes, id say yes , it will work

will you like it? prob not
will it ride good? prob not
could you stand on it on the water? yes

but why

Raven · Posted: Jun 02, 2010 10:18 pm Post subject:

there is something to be said about something that has been created with your own 2 hands

GOLD!en · Backside 180 Joined: 05 Feb 2007 Posts: 505 City: Edwards

A guy I know glued some 2x4s together then "carved" the edges for a woodshop project. No griptape, kickflip first try. I've always been a believer that wakeskating is 10% board and 90% rider. Now I don't even think I would give the board that much. So to answer your question, hell yes it will work. Ride it till it dies.

tyn · Pop Shuvit Joined: 12 Oct 2008 Posts: 135 City: Orlando

So apparently after hearing lotsa different voices, I am now convinced that carving the whole wakesk8 will only result to a big failure. Luckily our wood maker been studying about this lately and came up with a better plan. So, hopefully things will all work and if it does I'll come back to share photos. Thanks everyone! Smile

jcoffey · Backside 180 Joined: 24 May 2008 Posts: 1339

to further proove your point, GOLD!en, i rode cable with a buddy not to long ago and he was ollie 360 on a flat home-made pool deck like it was nothing. Smash

Montgomery · Backside 180 Joined: 26 Feb 2008 Posts: 976 City: Rogers

Too lazy, didn't read the whole thread so this may have been covered but I'm pretty sure boards are layered for a reason aren't they ?

Mr. Top Hat · Dead Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 5818

Montgomery, try reading the whole thread and get back to yourself

Montgomery · Backside 180 Joined: 26 Feb 2008 Posts: 976 City: Rogers