anybody here have any experience with making your own longboard?
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skate board or surf board??? if surf board... its all in the horizontal lights.  with high powered lights coming in from the sides, you can see every ridge, scrape or rough area.  Then you can sand it out to be perfect before you put the fiberglass on. It is a huge commitment.  you are better off buying one because all the materials that you will need will be very expensive, unless you are planning on making a bunch and breaking into the market of surf boards.  \n\nhope that helps
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Try this site:\n\nhttp://www.recmanagement.com/features.php?fid=200305FE02&ch=3\n\nAnd also, this site gives a step by step demonstration using pictures.  As to where to acquire the materials or how to rent a polaris to move the material, I think might be another Yahoo! Answer.\n\nhttp://www.aukebaylandingcraft.com/BuildingTrails.html\n\nHopefully, this gives you some idea of the direction to go.  Good luck!
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http://www.cadsoftusa.com/\n\nIt's free and supports small designs.\n\nTo make your own PCB, you must use a laser jet printer on good quality photo paper, transfer your printing like an iron-on transfer to your copper-clad board, use HOT water to slowly peel away the paper with the trace still on your board, use etchant and viola!! You now have a pro board you did yourself.\n\nYou can find this in better detail on the web, just search.
482498
Have you tried monsterboard.com?
229484
Here...make your own:
99011
There is a guy in Newport Beach CA. His name is Dano and he makes custom boards. His boards handle very well and look awsome.
29036
Yes you can. I'm a mechanical engineering student and for my friend's senior project they have to design the landing gear for an amphibious aircraft (a seaplane) and figure out a way to mass produce them. Their sponsor built it from scratch and spare parts. He had no plans or dimensions, so they had to look up the specs for all the parts and measure sections. I would imagine it took him a lot of money to do all this. I guess in theory it sounds like a pretty cool project.
1141945
which ones? there are quite a few built in system ones then you can also make your own. are you looking for examples?
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Ebay is always a good one to look at.  If not, contact your local surf shop.  There are always used boards in local shops.  If you're just starting, don't be tempted to buy any board that is smaller than about 7 foot unless you want to have a bad time learning.
101449
There's lots of running boards out there. Make? Model? Year?
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Try ebay or craigslist. If that doesn't work, post it in the newspaper where you live and in the online listings, it's usually free. You'll probably get around $250 for a brand new board and bindings, but even that is asking for a lot. You need to just see what you can get for it. Then, proceed with selling it.
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I am actualy making my own as i type this. It's taken me 3 weeks so far, but im using PHP to do my coding. MySQL as the database software,a nd PHP for the coding. It's coming along nicely. \n\nif you need some ideas, go to..\n\nwww.vbulletin.com\nwww.phpbb.com\nwww.punbb.org\nwww.simplemachines.org\n\nhope those ehlkp
201680
I did it about 2 years ago.  Went from working for someone else to starting my own studio.  The only hang up was affording the right equipment.  I started off with a couple high quality cameras I bought off eBay.  Did a few weddings for rock bottom prices just to get my name out there.  And now we are crazy busy with weddings, sport videos, memories and such.  And this summer we are working on our first short.  I am not sure what you are looking for answer wise.  But if you have any questions on what I did or suggestion just let me know.  I might be able to help or at least tell you what not to do.
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5150, Limited, Sims, Lamar, Morrow are all good, lower-priced boards for beginners. \n\nHowever... have you boarded before? If not, I'd suggest you rent and try a few different boards while you find your personal preferences (likes/dislikes) and your riding style (freeboard, freestyle, etc.). While it might require extra funds in the early going, renting will help save you money in the long term, such as making the mistake of buying a board you wont like in terms of style, graphics, etc.\n\nGood luck... see ya on the slopes!\n\n:)
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This site has build your own deck kits:\nhttp://www.roarockit.com/
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I don't know what your interests are, but one experiment that I have done in the past is building an electric motor.  It's easy and does not require a lot of equipment.  I'll include the equipment list below.  If you are interested, send me an email and I will send you a picture of the setup.  That would be easier than explaining it here.\nEquipment required:\n1)Small stable platform, like a wooden board (maybe like 6 inches long and 4 inches wide, and perhaps like 1/2 inch thick).  Maybe a piece of cardboard would work as well.\n2)Magnet (something like 1 inch by 1 inch and 1/2 inch thick)\n3)Copper wire with a small diameter (something you would be able to wrap around your fingers)\n4)6-Volt battery (might be called a lantern battery). The shape of the battery is rectangular and the battery terminals look like little springs at the top of the battery.\n5)Two paper clips\n6)Two thumb tacks
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If you want, send me all the info you have on it and I will see what I can come up with. What are you trying to do? I may be able to help I build guitars on my spare time.