Discussing esk8 deck: "Doobie" 39" Deck with Kicktail & milled out area for electronics

drangboards · January 7, 2019, 6:10am

drangboards · January 7, 2019, 7:13am

moon · January 7, 2019, 7:14am

What is the machining time out of curiosity. Looks good btw

bigben · January 7, 2019, 7:21am

I’ll send you my address…

drangboards · January 7, 2019, 8:06am

Biggest question is how deep should the maximum depth be on the enclosure. I think we need to keep the top of the board above the batteries at least 6 plies deep. This is going to be the most important decision.

Right now the cut is as deep as 7 plies. The board may be able to handle a slightly deeper enclosure cut, but I don’t wan to do it. I think this might stay strong.

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Skunk · January 7, 2019, 8:07am

Looks really good man. I’m into it

drangboards · January 7, 2019, 8:38am

moon · January 7, 2019, 8:40am

Skunk · January 7, 2019, 8:46am

Yeah I’d ride that…

drangboards · January 7, 2019, 9:30am

Machine time was about half hour. I took it slow on a few operations and rushed one op. Could be 15 minutes.

moon · January 7, 2019, 9:39am

Nice, are you going to ship it to ben next?

Frenchy · January 7, 2019, 9:42am

Now that is what we all have been looking for @drangboards .

drangboards · January 7, 2019, 10:18am

Yeah I dig it. If I had the personal money I’d keep it and set it up but I need lots of help and my double kick is gonna be awesome with raptor full kit.

So if we get a count going we can make a discounted group buy but for one of these full retail price should be what? What is the value of a board like this?

drangboards · January 7, 2019, 10:22am

Not sure if this one goes to Ben or the next one or maybe I send him a mold first so he can put mold release on it and have production going.

What do y’all think?

12meterkuk · January 7, 2019, 10:23am

I’d say anywhere from 150 to 250 usd

moon · January 7, 2019, 10:25am

@bigben

What do you think

mishrasubhransu · January 7, 2019, 10:26am

Hummie sells his board(with a couple CF layers) at $125 shipped with a similar cutout. I would imagine this would be the same.

moon · January 7, 2019, 10:28am

I think whoever makes the enclosure is going to do it better if they have the deck with them, just my opinion

Priced similar to hummie deck is great. But we all know hummie is barely making money off that. In this case it should be different

mishrasubhransu · January 7, 2019, 10:33am

True but real money is finding that sweet spot. Too expensive only a select few buy and you don’t make enough; too cheap, a lot of people buy it but you don’t make a lot.

drangboards · January 7, 2019, 10:33am

There may be other factories on this side of the pond who can and will jump into building these in more efficient manner at higher monthly quantity but for us now here at drang we’re going to be as high as we can be in that price. I like the forum for finding a price. In a few days we can settle on something solid. Group buy may influence a discount based on how many we presell. We can press boards right when they sell and we want 2 weeks for curing or almost that as Utah is a dry climate.