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Open Source Dancer Pro-Foam Collab Kit
Product Description:
“Using input from the local longboard dancing community, we developed a board with all the features to create the best deck for riders of any level. This symmetrical, mellow design with a bit of rocker provides a stable, comfortable platform for dancing. The tapered midsection and subtle wheel flares improve the board’s maneuverability, providing a unique, yet familiar feel that allows you to explore and express your style. Use birch veneer for a lighter, more flexible ride, or maple for a stiffer, more responsive ride.”
Beau Trifiro is a skateboarder, a builder, an educator, and more! Beau founded Open Source Skateboards as a way to empower creativity through skateboarding. Creating tools for skaters and builders, providing board design and build services, and running board building workshops and online tutorials, are just some of the ways he helps the board building community.
Open Source Dancer Pro-Foam Collab Kit
- Two 8-layer sets of maple (and or birch) 12 x 47 x 1/16” veneer
- One 3-dimensionally shaped 12 x 47 x 2” foam mold designed by Open Source Skateboards
- Printable PDF full-scale paper template (digital download)
Thin Air Press Kit
- 20 x 70” heavy duty vinyl vacuum bag with one-way valve attached
- manual vacuum Super Pump
- breather netting
- extra sealing tape
Recommended glue amount for this kit: 48 oz
These kits are designed for builders with experience using the Roarockit vacuum-laminating method. Instructions do not come with these kits. For in-depth tutorials view the photo and video tutorials.
To make your mold last longer, completely cover it with strips of wide (plastic) packing tape.
The foam mold and Thin Air Press Bag, pump, and breather netting are designed to be used for many, many builds.
Keep all your reusable kit parts in good working order by following the maintenance tips included with the kit.
Using uncut sheets of veneer, plywood backer boards and external clamps can puncture a Thin Air Press bag. Treat your TAP bag with care, inspect regularly for holes.
Q: What else do I need to make a board with this kit?
A: Glue and a roller, possibly an off-cut sheet of plywood to act as a stiffener under the mold, and a jigsaw (or bandsaw) to trim out the pressed board