the old Tool videos were my inspiration for this:
so yeah… i’d love to see some creepy ass bone clad esk8 too. Maybe i’ll start figuring that out. It would be sick as hell.
moar board porn:
fabbed a few boxes over the last few days. Two of them are good, one of them was too long and caused me to have to rework the mold to be slightly shorter. So after reworking it, i got two good boxes that will hold the 48cell packs i make and all the other innards.
pics! because it happened!
sanded and cut:
textured and painted:
and on the board for a preview of what the whole thing looks like completed:
So some background on my boxes: yes i do a hand laying technique that does not involve a female (reverse) mold, i instead use a plug (male) mold and i don’t use a vacuum bag setup. This is how I have always done it because up until now i was never making the same box twice. Now that i’ve settled on a design, it makes more sense to do one of two things: make a female mold using the male form PLUS an existing box to get the thickness correct and have a flange, which will involve taking the time to not only make the box absolutely perfect so that the mold will be, but also doing it right and figuring out a vac bag setup… or getting somebody else to make them. I’m not 100% sure which way i want to go. When i’m making the boxes now, doing it the way i have been, it makes me want to get somebody else to do it.
Several people online have wondered why i have built my boxes this way this whole time. Now you know. Eseentially im’m still building and selling prototypes. That’s sort of my model, after all.
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so i got the rivet nuts epoxied in, sanded them smooth with the deck and re-touched the stain around them. Also, rivet nuts are GOLD so who wants that? black paint pen to the rescue!
tossed a couple of 1" foam strips in the bottom of the box to keep the battery pack and everything on it a little more insulated from vibration:
how 'bout that fuel guage? dremel surgery FTW. I got the rectangle cut out so tight the volt meter just snapped into the hole and stayed there before i even sealed it in with hot glue.
everything’s in the box now. Charging port, switch and fuel guage, battery packs, VESCs, BMS, and all the trimmings. Now all that’s left is to do some minor cable management and then set up the VESCs.
I should be street testing this bad bitch this weekend, and hopefully getting about this far on that witchblade build as well now that all the parts have arrived. Thanks @onloop for unclogging the works and getting my drive train sent out. You rock!
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Holy crap Damon!! I think you max out your case. Very cool build
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Thanks! yeah that’s about all the battery i can have in that box with any sort of foam padding. if i used a triangle type stacking method on the cells and lost the foam i could probably get another whole layer of cells, but then i’d need a stronger box lol
So the foam had to come out from the bottom due to the height of things and the phase leads not wanting to bunch under the deck in a nice curley fashion. Whatevs.
Anyway it’s done and ready to glamour shot and street test, then on to her new home. here’s some shit on the grams I posted tonight after I finished up:
And from the top and side:
And with the NEW TSHIRTS THAT WILL COME WITH EVERY ORDER OF DECKS OR COMPLETES. Exclusive shirts! Made by a guy in his garage doin like we do!
Thanks for watching! I’ve got two more to finish up now, and hopefully more will come.
Oh and I just bought an x-carve so soon I’ll be drinking cocktails while a robot does all the work!
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the vescs are probably just there for the foto and usually in the back cavity behind the liion cells?
I would really avoid direct contact of vesc mosfets and battery. liion chemistry is most comfortable in the 10-30°C region and very sensitive to everything outside that comfort zone. exposed to 80-100°C mosfets, these few cells in direct contact with the vesc should age much faster than the rest of the pack!
they’re air gapped, but they are pretty close. Maybe i can put a little more space between them just to be safe though because yeah, you don’t really want anything like that happening.
This board was too pretty to let go without some glamour shots, so a buddy of mine came over with his camera gear and turned my bedroom into a photo studio for a couple of hours
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what would be crazy cool for these kind of designs: if that resin filled inlay would heartbeat-pulse in red whenever you switch on the board!! could probably just add some LEDs to the resin 
Interesting idea. You could also try to inlay some red EL wire. Either way, it would probably look pretty cool.
Lol. No, but I do own a small stock of EL wire. I just really like how it looks and want to see it applied to ESk8’s somehow. I keep seeing things on here that seem like good applications that I never would have thought of.
You’re in my head aren’t you? I swear I’ve been thinking about doing exactly that ever since I realized how clear it really is. The grip would scatter the light beautifully. not much room left in the box though, so the led/el controller would have to be tiny, but it could totally work. I like the el idea because it’s a more even distribution of light.
EDC is coming soon to Vegas…there may be reason to come to Vegas and use your el wire lol
I’ll just leave this here…
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With your lhb board?
The one I built in this thread, yes.
Sweet Jeebus!!!
36.3 MPH top speed!!? 
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