Sorry to drag you into this.. but you make a cross industry statement. Takoon says on their website that they do vacuum infusion. I quote: "complete carbon construction with vacuum infusion, a technique from the aerospace industry"... Is this then an incomplete/ false claim?
By the way I listened to you on the Generic foiling podcast and it was truly inspiring! Glad to see production coming back to Europe for all the right reasons, incl. environment and labor standards
@avinash - for the benefit of the doubt, perhaps Appletree was making claims about surfboards, not foil boards. The yellow board in the video looks like a surf board to me.
@@avinashbikha Thanks! glad you enjoyed it. We won't won't comment on claims made by other companies. In our factory we use the tech on each and every board, kite, surf, foil. and at a scale of production that is unmatched.
Dude, infusion is great,ok. But nobody vacuum bags in the simpleton way you described. Everybody (including DIY builders) uses peelply and an absorbent layer so any excess resin is pulled out of the lam as it compresses.And it compresses just like an infusion,vacuum pressure is the same in both methods and limited by the foam crushing. Infusion has very marginal gains over a well done vac bag.
Hi! We know, we used to do vacuum pressing a long time before we developed this system. But this is a simplified explanation not a technical how to, so we try to keep it simple. I do not agree with the marginal gains though. Infusion gives you much more consistency especially in the scale we operate in if done well, it's great, problem is that most brands don't do it that well.
Very cool 😎... Good for the environment and the board performance... Awesome 🤙🏾🤙🏾🤙🏾😁.
No other kitesurf board comes close to the strength and quality of these boards.
cool video. do you use rocker tables?
We can't disclose that information :)
@@appletreesurfboards hardly a state secret and widely known in the production community but thanks anyway.
Do you still apply a hot coat?
And what keeps the vacuum pressure from crushing/deforming the foam core?
yes we do finish with a hotcoat. our foam can resist much higher pressures than normal EPS
Do you ship to the continental United States? How long would it take for a custom Skipper DW ?
Hi Rhett, Yes, we ship worldwide. Lead times fluctuate a bit through the season, but currently production time for a custom is about 10 weeks.
Looks good!
Love it! But you're not the only brand 😜. Libtech does it as well and a few other smaller guys.
Yes, true, but libtech uses a mould of the final board, and we don't, so we can customise each shape!
Sorry to drag you into this.. but you make a cross industry statement. Takoon says on their website that they do vacuum infusion. I quote: "complete carbon construction with vacuum infusion, a technique from the aerospace industry"... Is this then an incomplete/ false claim?
By the way I listened to you on the Generic foiling podcast and it was truly inspiring! Glad to see production coming back to Europe for all the right reasons, incl. environment and labor standards
@avinash - for the benefit of the doubt, perhaps Appletree was making claims about surfboards, not foil boards. The yellow board in the video looks like a surf board to me.
@@avinashbikha Thanks! glad you enjoyed it. We won't won't comment on claims made by other companies. In our factory we use the tech on each and every board, kite, surf, foil. and at a scale of production that is unmatched.
Dude, infusion is great,ok.
But nobody vacuum bags in the simpleton way you described.
Everybody (including DIY builders) uses peelply and an absorbent layer so any excess resin is pulled out of the lam as it compresses.And it compresses just like an infusion,vacuum pressure is the same in both methods and limited by the foam crushing.
Infusion has very marginal gains over a well done vac bag.
Hi! We know, we used to do vacuum pressing a long time before we developed this system. But this is a simplified explanation not a technical how to, so we try to keep it simple. I do not agree with the marginal gains though. Infusion gives you much more consistency especially in the scale we operate in
if done well, it's great, problem is that most brands don't do it that well.