DUDE! This video is exactly what I needed to find! With all this new found free time due to the state of the world at the moment, I've been looking for a new project. I've been saving up all my old skateboards for years. Just recently, I came up with the idea to turn my skateboards into a climbing hangboard trainer but was racking my brain on how to go about doing this. Then I stumbled upon your channel! I'm so stoked now to get this project started!
was really inspired by watching your videos through the pandemic and have since started to play around with laminating end grain plywood scraps together into "lumber" and making little boxes with it. thanks for your enthusiastic content!
The lumber looks so rad! Excited to see what you are gonna make from it. And for a fellow small-shop woodworker it is really inspiring to see how much you get done in that little shop!
I really appreciate how you make your small space work! You see so many makers on youtube with enormous studios. I'm a seamstress and work in our tiny box room! It's great to see how you fit everything in!
I’ve been watching this guy n absolutely love his energy. I used to work for John Grinnon Co. & Woodcraft back in Hawaii fixing all the woodworking tools. Seeing his shop n layout brings back memories not to mention his creativity is hands down inspirational n awesome. Love the videos bro keep’um coming!!!
Have you ever tried to steam the decks and then press them to try and take the pop/contours out? I've wondered for a long time if you could flatten decks back to their original state with steam. You might be able to eliminate some waste if steaming could help flatten the decks before you laminate them together...might be worth a try. Either way, keep up the great work!
kind like bend end lets know it skate bord. long bord squre dosent manter if lines in bord is curved. but your right if wants add another step steam bores allow flatten it or turn heart shape have right forms.
No. That would never work. The reason they hold their concave is because the plies are glued together while they are bent into that shape. To unbend them you would have to unglue the plies, which would be impossible
What are the three pressure pumps to pressure the glue together for a day? Where’sa link for those? Can you make a video on how you made that gluing chamber/rack?
Welp, looks like it’s time to make a hydraulic press at work.. and a tool holding jig for Printers/CNC tables. Thanks for the hard work and inspiration!
I've been watching your videos for a while now, and I think your collaboration with totalboat is... Natural. It HAD to be. It's perfect. BUT I watch your videos to see a crazy patient guy making awesome stuff out of broken skateboards. Not an advertisement for this tool or this product. This video had too much of it for my taste. Thank you still for sharing all your work with us!
Magali Mertens I appreciate you watching my videos. I like to shoutout the people that feed me and continue to allow me to do what I do best, which is making content. As much as I’d love to do it without them, it’s so much harder and to be honest, I’d probably go back to my day job. Also, this is a 4 year research. And I would’ve loved it if someone else came out with a video explaining why I should’ve been using king Arthur’s tools holey Galahad discs to remove the skateboard residue. But instead I wasted through hundreds of flap discs. Or pay a little extra to have the safety of electromagnetic stop switch and get a bigger stable bandsaw with 131.5 length that’s not only easier find blades for but more options vs. 115 inch. Either way, if you tap right twice, you skip 5 seconds...
@@WobyDesign I get it, of course! Thanking your sponsors is necessary. I'm not a professionnal of advertising, I'm just a watcher. I guess in videos I would prefer you telling us exactly what you just wrote me: why the products changed YOUR way to work. What you just wrote me really interested me because I'm curious of your work, not (yet???) on the product. By the way it feels very good to be read and it's very cool from you to answer!
I'm starting to get into woodworking and recycling my boards. What tools would you recommend to prep the boards and cut to strips?? I'm already thinking a belt sander cuz that will make my life way easier then my dremel I use right now haha. But what else would be essential? Like a mitor saw or jigsaw?
Have you considered chopping the tips and tails to join them together to make like a mitered herringbone? The lumber would be shorter but if everything lined up you'd have some pretty dope material to play with patterning and veneers.
Mob grip is perforated so it wants to tear when you take it off. I used to work at a skate shop and would dread when someone would want to re grip a board that had Mob
Awesome! I subbed right after the Katz Moses video and been watching ever since. You're one of my top 5 fav guys to watch man. I could see some killer cutting boards coming from that lumber. I mean, it's Maple right? Should be ok? Not sure if Total Boat is food safe. Also like the quick tool review. That is one thing I don't like about my Rikon 10-325, it spins forever after I turn it. Oh yeah about the Dewalt planer! 734, or 735, Helical head upgrade? I guess we'll find out soon. Keep up the great work!
I saw on the Discovery Channel's "How It's Made" that that is how another company makes skateboards out of old skateboards. They just cut the boards thinner (like 1/2" to 3/4" thick), and they use templates shaped like skateboards to determine the size and shape of each board and cut each blank to that shape. Then finally, after rounding over the edges, they use clear coat and ground recycled glass to provide the grip. And with clear coat, you can see the cross-sectional areas of all twenty of the skateboards which each of the new skateboards are made out of.
What’s the best way to remove the sticky left behind after you remove the grip tape? Acetone made it worse and I’ve tried 40 - 120 grit sanding discs on my sander and that just get full of the glue after about a minute.
Great video. Just an idea, could you put the board under a cheap heat lamp to soften the glue on the grip tape? Then you could be peeling one while the next one is heating.
Love what you’re doing Ben! 👊🏻 was curious what material you are sandwiching between the decks when your pressing them in the laminating press box? Either way, you’re stamina and dedication is inspiring. I’ve managed to round up 12 decks. Hoping to get to 20 and start my first piece. Keep it up bro! 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Nice! Are you going to turn one of these blanks back into a skateboard? Since the "grain" is facing a different direction than the last skateboard-out-of-broken-skateboards. I think it might be stronger. But when it comes to making things out of broken skateboards, your the expert. Thanks
this is amazing!!!! Now I wanna make this as well! But I have ZERO material for this. Also, what kind of projects can this be applyed to? Because I can garantee the final product is really strong!
Thats freaking nice! You should have a product developer and an engineer look into building you a container unit that does all this for you. you just insert skateboards and the machines inside peels off the tape, sands it and does all the rest, and spits out skateboard lumber on the other side. hahahaha!
You should try out acetone soaking the boards. It will eat the paint, glue, and de-laminate the boards so you can press it all flat instead of having to cut all the concave/convex out. You could then just use standard wood glue instead of epoxy.
Sometimes you got to let the pros do what they do best, and you do great work with those boards. Out of line maybe but do you by chance sell lumber like this?
Do wanna try to make a larger CLT beam out of skateboards? Might not be alowed to use it as a structural member, but at least it would look cool. Maybe someone in town has a machine to do those special finger joints.
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Can you try to do a skateboard deck out of epoxy? I think it will be interesting😅
The best finishing product is the video! Thanks.
Good one
Can you explain how to get use Skyp board?
DUDE! This video is exactly what I needed to find! With all this new found free time due to the state of the world at the moment, I've been looking for a new project. I've been saving up all my old skateboards for years. Just recently, I came up with the idea to turn my skateboards into a climbing hangboard trainer but was racking my brain on how to go about doing this. Then I stumbled upon your channel! I'm so stoked now to get this project started!
...stumbled?? ha!
@Thomas Pynchon dam u rytt, wut da hex wuz I evin thnkn
If someday I found out Woby had been beating up kids for their skateboards id be disappointed but not surprised.
Eeeeeeeeeepoxy
was really inspired by watching your videos through the pandemic and have since started to play around with laminating end grain plywood scraps together into "lumber" and making little boxes with it. thanks for your enthusiastic content!
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Woby Design oh cool I will thanks!
The lumber looks so rad! Excited to see what you are gonna make from it. And for a fellow small-shop woodworker it is really inspiring to see how much you get done in that little shop!
Can’t wait to see what Izzy is going to make for you to help with the grip tape problem.
I'd like to know Jackman Works' reaction after you said you might have stick with pallets... 😂 😂
I'll stick with pallets
Just to warn you, they have a pallet recycling facility right behind my shop so thread carefully
@@WobyDesign What would happen if you shipped some of the lumber you made to Jackman Works? I don't know if he would know what to do.
@Bourbonmoth Bespoke skateboard pallet river table?
I really appreciate how you make your small space work! You see so many makers on youtube with enormous studios. I'm a seamstress and work in our tiny box room! It's great to see how you fit everything in!
Watching these videos calms me, thank you for soothing content.
I’ve been watching this guy n absolutely love his energy. I used to work for John Grinnon Co. & Woodcraft back in Hawaii fixing all the woodworking tools. Seeing his shop n layout brings back memories not to mention his creativity is hands down inspirational n awesome. Love the videos bro keep’um coming!!!
Thank you! Really appreciate it :)
Very good job
Have you ever tried to steam the decks and then press them to try and take the pop/contours out? I've wondered for a long time if you could flatten decks back to their original state with steam. You might be able to eliminate some waste if steaming could help flatten the decks before you laminate them together...might be worth a try. Either way, keep up the great work!
Cory Stewart why ?
It's the randomness of the grain that makes it look good !
Steam, a Press and then a drum sander. Time is money.
steaming would also make the grip tape just fall right off. the only downside I could see is adding moisture which you will have to dry back out
kind like bend end lets know it skate bord. long bord squre dosent manter if lines in bord is curved. but your right if wants add another step steam bores allow flatten it or turn heart shape have right forms.
No. That would never work. The reason they hold their concave is because the plies are glued together while they are bent into that shape. To unbend them you would have to unglue the plies, which would be impossible
I want recycled skateboard wood flooring in my kitchen! Great job sir.
That is some wild quarter sawn lumber!!!!
It's like watching an informercial and enjoying every minute of it :)
That stuff needs to be bookmatched and made into a guitar. So cool.
I don't have a shop or do any of what you do but damn if it isn't all super interesting to watch!
That jig that Izzy gonna design for ya should be awesome.
That was really satisfying watching the epoxy ooze out when you pressed it down!
excellent work, congratulations.
Brazilian here 😎
Great use of old skateboards they look awesome
What are the three pressure pumps to pressure the glue together for a day? Where’sa link for those? Can you make a video on how you made that gluing chamber/rack?
Stoked you got sponsors. Looking forward to the future.
Hey man! You’re a huge inspiration. Thanks for the awesome content!
Great idea love your shop.
Wonder if the carving discs would work for making surfboard fins or if it would be to aggressive.
Welp, looks like it’s time to make a hydraulic press at work.. and a tool holding jig for Printers/CNC tables. Thanks for the hard work and inspiration!
Nice! That would make an awesome table / desk top!!
That's why you're the boss. 😁 Nice step-by-step. Thanks for sharing!
As usual I love your videos ... keep going you always give me good ideas. my son loves your workshops. 👌👌👌
Dude. These look sooooooo badass
I've been watching your videos for a while now, and I think your collaboration with totalboat is... Natural. It HAD to be. It's perfect.
BUT I watch your videos to see a crazy patient guy making awesome stuff out of broken skateboards. Not an advertisement for this tool or this product. This video had too much of it for my taste.
Thank you still for sharing all your work with us!
Magali Mertens I appreciate you watching my videos. I like to shoutout the people that feed me and continue to allow me to do what I do best, which is making content. As much as I’d love to do it without them, it’s so much harder and to be honest, I’d probably go back to my day job.
Also, this is a 4 year research. And I would’ve loved it if someone else came out with a video explaining why I should’ve been using king Arthur’s tools holey Galahad discs to remove the skateboard residue. But instead I wasted through hundreds of flap discs.
Or pay a little extra to have the safety of electromagnetic stop switch and get a bigger stable bandsaw with 131.5 length that’s not only easier find blades for but more options vs. 115 inch.
Either way, if you tap right twice, you skip 5 seconds...
@@WobyDesign I get it, of course!
Thanking your sponsors is necessary.
I'm not a professionnal of advertising, I'm just a watcher.
I guess in videos I would prefer you telling us exactly what you just wrote me: why the products changed YOUR way to work.
What you just wrote me really interested me because I'm curious of your work, not (yet???) on the product.
By the way it feels very good to be read and it's very cool from you to answer!
Bro you get a like just for all that prep work, DAMN!
Besides cost, are there any downsides to using epoxy over wood glue to laminate these boards together?
I really really like your channel.
I'm starting to get into woodworking and recycling my boards. What tools would you recommend to prep the boards and cut to strips?? I'm already thinking a belt sander cuz that will make my life way easier then my dremel I use right now haha. But what else would be essential? Like a mitor saw or jigsaw?
Come for the woodworking. Stay for the WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
This was very inspirational to watch, I have to start making things out of old skateboards now.
Really cool...Rainbow wood:)
You've really gotten your procedures down, man. This is working.
Now, that's what I call ply-wood!
Dude.. you have a dream job! Success!!! Greetings from Brasil!!!
That's awesome. Now use the boards to make your dog a badass dog house.
Have you considered chopping the tips and tails to join them together to make like a mitered herringbone? The lumber would be shorter but if everything lined up you'd have some pretty dope material to play with patterning and veneers.
Those would make some neat looking guitar blanks!
Would putting these in some sort of oven help to make your process easier to remove the top layer by softening the adhesive ?
Beautiful lumber! Great video!
Those would make some killer floating shelves
Mob grip is perforated so it wants to tear when you take it off. I used to work at a skate shop and would dread when someone would want to re grip a board that had Mob
All I need is a little skateboard lumber to make me some gauges!!
Gorgeous work!
That's pretty wood. Love it.
This is pretty cool, he should definitely be wearing a mask when dealing with all that resin dust though
Would make an amazing “floating” shelf!
Love the grind mate!
No pun intended lol
Good to see someone doing something they are passionate about 🤙🏾
Thank you!
Awesome! I subbed right after the Katz Moses video and been watching ever since. You're one of my top 5 fav guys to watch man. I could see some killer cutting boards coming from that lumber. I mean, it's Maple right? Should be ok? Not sure if Total Boat is food safe. Also like the quick tool review. That is one thing I don't like about my Rikon 10-325, it spins forever after I turn it. Oh yeah about the Dewalt planer! 734, or 735, Helical head upgrade? I guess we'll find out soon. Keep up the great work!
This is seriously rad, man. Good stuff.
... also: supercut of Woby whoos
I'm surprised the heat gun not made outta broken boards 🤙👌
These pieces are amazing! What would you make with them??? I think they would be great shelves, but I'm sure others have more imaginative ideas. 💡
I feel like those blanks would make awesome stair treads that im sure Ben Uyeda could use at his container house. Or maybe floating shelves.
I saw on the Discovery Channel's "How It's Made" that that is how another company makes skateboards out of old skateboards. They just cut the boards thinner (like 1/2" to 3/4" thick), and they use templates shaped like skateboards to determine the size and shape of each board and cut each blank to that shape. Then finally, after rounding over the edges, they use clear coat and ground recycled glass to provide the grip. And with clear coat, you can see the cross-sectional areas of all twenty of the skateboards which each of the new skateboards are made out of.
Yea, he copied me
I really enjoyed watching this shit and you know what? I learned a lot.
Ok what are those forms you put under and on top of the decks when you pressed them made of?
Have you ever experimented stacking the skateboards like bricks when you glue them togther??
That is beautiful wood!! LOVE IT!
U should have made a chopping board . With that design . God know how crazy it would look .. , looking forward to that 🤘🤘🤣🤣
I always forget how hype you are Ben 😂 love your energy
What’s the best way to remove the sticky left behind after you remove the grip tape? Acetone made it worse and I’ve tried 40 - 120 grit sanding discs on my sander and that just get full of the glue after about a minute.
Thanks for the great video. Again.
you have great patience. new sub.
Great video. Just an idea, could you put the board under a cheap heat lamp to soften the glue on the grip tape? Then you could be peeling one while the next one is heating.
Been seeing your Instagram pics and been waiting for this video. 👍
Love what you’re doing Ben! 👊🏻 was curious what material you are sandwiching between the decks when your pressing them in the laminating press box? Either way, you’re stamina and dedication is inspiring. I’ve managed to round up 12 decks. Hoping to get to 20 and start my first piece. Keep it up bro! 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Nice! Are you going to turn one of these blanks back into a skateboard? Since the "grain" is facing a different direction than the last skateboard-out-of-broken-skateboards. I think it might be stronger. But when it comes to making things out of broken skateboards, your the expert. Thanks
this is amazing!!!! Now I wanna make this as well! But I have ZERO material for this. Also, what kind of projects can this be applyed to? Because I can garantee the final product is really strong!
I was missing the "Whoo's" during the videos, thankfully the big one at the end made up for it
I'm new to his channel, sadly that whoos were a big turn off. Aside from that his stuff is pretty darn cool
for a moment I thought it was rainbow eucalyptus tree wood, but this is really cool too!
Do you sell pieces of the lumber you make or strictly for your own creations?
Woooooooo!!!!!! Love it dude real nice!!! Hmmm joinery out of that lumber? Thinking large dovetail 🤔😆🤙
Question, if you’re using the epoxy now, wouldn’t that make it okay to keep the stickers and finish and stuff on the boards?
If you had a handle on the end of the grip roller it might give you more leverage. But idk I might have no idea what I’m talking about.
Thats freaking nice! You should have a product developer and an engineer look into building you a container unit that does all this for you. you just insert skateboards and the machines inside peels off the tape, sands it and does all the rest, and spits out skateboard lumber on the other side. hahahaha!
You should try out acetone soaking the boards. It will eat the paint, glue, and de-laminate the boards so you can press it all flat instead of having to cut all the concave/convex out. You could then just use standard wood glue instead of epoxy.
I hope to see these slaps of lumber for sell in the future
You have a very nice work space
You are the fucking man. What a cool project. I would love to see you make a chair or some type of furniture with the lumber!
How about a collab with Peter Brown, braclets or bowls made from that lumber would look sweet!
Awesome idea.
How come your nephew's growth chart is still in your shop and not on their wall?
The "WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" is absolute gold!!!
At 10:12, I too smiled at him automatically! So much of passion and involvement...kept me engaged throughout.
I think it would look dope if you added an edge to one of those planks and made it a shelf, or just made it half as thick and routed the edge
New favorite channel
Sometimes you got to let the pros do what they do best, and you do great work with those boards. Out of line maybe but do you by chance sell lumber like this?
You should make a cool pallet out the skateboards for an interior design piece
Do wanna try to make a larger CLT beam out of skateboards? Might not be alowed to use it as a structural member, but at least it would look cool. Maybe someone in town has a machine to do those special finger joints.
What's a normal asking price for a broken skateboard for anyone planning to try this out? Thanks!
Very cool Ben!
well done; makes me think of a jawbreaker with all the different colors.