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Difficult to tell, could be beech? Goes very pink when steamed. Edit: ignore that, the grain is totally wrong for beech.

Sealing tape will last as long as you can keep it clean. If you put waxed paper over it when you put stuff in and out it lasts pretty well. You can by massive rolls of it from East Coast Fibreglass Supplies for not-very-much. It's actually putty rather than tape, and it's the standard way of...

Hi all, Sorry to post three in a row, but if anyone fancies a bash at making a longboard/skateboard (which I can't recommend strongly enough), have a look here: http://silverfishlongboarding.com/forum/longboard-board-building/ Yank site with international membership. Lots of great info and...

Hi John, Thanks for clearing that up, had me weirded out for a while there! I'll probably be looking for materials to make a half dozen or so boards. Having researched a bit more I think it's Tulipwood (Yellow Poplar in yank speak, hence my confusion) that I'm looking for so not strictly...

Hi Seanybaby (its Rich btw :wink:), It's a bagging system thought up by a company called roarockit in canada, but could by made at home very, very easily. I'm intending to make a new, larger bag myself soon. The pump and valve is a vacuvin wine saver. It supposedly creates about 15psi over a...

Hmmm, I'm guessing this forum has a pretty serious spam filter? Edit: Weird, as soon as I posted this, REPORT TO MODERATORS!!! disappeared from my links. Oh well!

Seanybaby, You are correct on both counts. I primarily make boards for downhill racing using composite skins on wooden cores. Slow grown, tight grained maple from northerly regions is the traditional material for board building, though I tend to use ash as it's just as good in most respects and...

Howdy there folks, I'm looking for a supplier of poplar for building skateboard cores, preferably in the south east. Anyone got any ideas? Thanks in advance for any help. I'll post up some pics of my work at some point so you can see what I get up to. Rich R