Board skins

[rynhardt]

We've recently moved to making the outer layers of the board separately. It's basically a few layers of glass and graphics, infused on glass.
The net result is a cosmetically perfect skin on the outside and a peelply surface on the inside, ready for bonding.
The main advantage, apart from the cosmetics, is that if there is a fu*kup, you only throw away the skin and not the whole board.
Finished an alutex and carbon skin this week, which turned out very nicely..

[faklord]

What sort of boards do you use these on?
I wouldn't imagine you could wrap the skin round the compound curves of the rails of a typical directional?

[rynhardt]

Twin-Tips only. Any slight curvature we have is sorted out by the vacuum.

[Blackrat]

Nice , is it done yet

[rynhardt]

Haha.. I wish.. we only get around to this every other weekend..