Increasing the angle won’t make it tip any easier, it will actually be the opposite. It is a balancing act. Your board is the highest I’d do on a deck like this at 18° and this one is the lowest I’d ever make a deck. Depending on what we want to see after we learn from each, we’ll see what the next model should look like based on how well these manual and ride from the tail.
Let’s see some video of you on your board with the 18° tail.
It is my hypothesis that the kick on this board will ride extremely well and “do all the other things”.
@drangboards, it would be nice to have the enclosure mounting holes CNCed along with everything else. The one thing I hate about fitting enclosure is the work it takes to drill evenly spaced holes on the deck and even then it’s not perfect. I’ll be 3D printing the enclosures, so it will be perfect. You could make pilot holes and people could expand it if necessary.
@bigben, would it be possible for you to make the enclosures with holes corresponding to the CNCed holes.
If I make a mold for an enclosure, I’ll put little markers on it, so the final product before cutting or drilling will have little dimples to drill out. Then for the profile cut, a template that was used with a flush trim router bolted into those holes.
Yes I’d like to get holes on the decks too, and maybe even some wire slots for under enclosure wires.
This would be a great way to get it right, Even a trimming line around the perimeter of the plug would help greatly in production if you didn’t want to use a router.
Dude, we could run a little channel for a seal. So many things I want people to add. There are people who are in a hurry to get a deck maybe and for those who want to do some of the stuff on your own, we can do that, and maybe you can save some moolah.
Don’t confuse need for precision with laziness. I have made my own motors mounts on a non-cnc milling machine but I prefer to buy CNCed mounts these days. If you can drill at perfect intervals(on a curved deck) and perfectly vertical, hats off to you.
The kick on my board feels perfect, yes steeper angles do require a bit more effort, but the nose also rises higher. That said, you’re the expert and I certainly trust your judgement. I’ll see if I can dig up some of my videos from this past summer, put a lot of miles on the board .
In the same boat here with ya. If there is a board that is made and you have the enclosure for simply having insert installed vs installing them yourself I will do the installing unless it is crazy cheap between the 2 options but if you have an unfinished board then you are going to have to do the installing yourself because if you get epoxy or spar in the inserts will then you have just a bunch of holes catching clear coat. If I can do it myself I’m going to damn well try.
I second this as well. Both guys are proven top notch enclosure builders and it will be less of a head ache to have to learn to make one yourself unless the is already a vac table and @psychotiller already has a super low profile enclosure so it could work for this deck depending on the dimensions
The discussion above was to have some kind of indicators(pilot holes in deck and divets/starter holes in enclosure) to help the diyers. I don’t think they were talking about putting inserts.
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