Home-made Veneer Press?

[Ian Flynn]

Ian, vacuum bag presses can do curved work easily, but with any method you'll have to make a form that the veneers will curve/bend over. Clamps, or a vacuum bag, or a sandbag just supply the pressure to bring your glued veneers into intimate contact, but the form has to be there first.

One part forms work fine with a vacuum bag, two part form (male and female) are perhaps best with clamps.

I'm definitely going to try both methods for sure, and since it will be me and four other guys doing the building, I'm sure we can give all of the methods you and the others here have given me a few tries. I know for sure though, that at least one if not all of these methods will work, and if this company picks up like I want it to you all in this thread are solely responsible and I thank you!

[Scott Hildenbrand]

You might find these reads interesting.

http://skateandannoy.com/2007/09/you...d-press-sucks/
http://diyskate.com/make_a_skateboard.html
http://www.techlink.org.nz/Case-stud...n/delivery.htm
http://www.skateparkoftampa.com/skat...y=20&Year=2009
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/200...aner_to_b.html
http://www.diyskate.com/mold_01.html <-- hmm.. Concrete mold. Wee!

Pictures of a true "press", though for snowboards.
http://www.snowboardmaterials.com/pages/used_skate.htm

A press would be easy to make out of bolted together 4x4s, much like building a DIY apple cider press, actually.