SKATEBOARDING PROHIBITED

We finally finished our first board today! The gripatape has been applied, the board is sprayed with blue paint, clear coat, and polyurethane. Right now, it's set up with some Cast Ronin 42.5˚ baseplate trucks, standard Cast Ronin bushings, a set of my old Sector 9 Butterballs, which as some of the most fun slow freeride wheels I've ever used, and the classic Zealous bearings. I took it for a spin today, and it's incredibly fun to ride. The wheelbase and topmount make it agile, but not a bad cruiser. With bigger wheels, this board could easily be a great commute board, but while riding it it also promises to be a fun freeride and downhill board. Takaaki and I are going up to Stanford on Sunday to test the board, and we're gonna bring back some footage to show off! We're also going to see if we can get Black Diamond Sports to give out some of our stickers.

Here are some pictures:

Doing some simple heelside checks on the board outside Piazza's

#SKATEBOARDINGPROHIBITED

Altus Boards: A New Aphrodisiac

This week we finished painting two different boards! They look great. I'll post a picture at the bottom of the post. Takaaki and I have each designed one design. Takaaki's design is the horizontal block of blue, while mine involves the slanted triangles. We're not sure who is going to design the third board and what the design is going to be, but you can rest assured it'll be something to get stoked over.

I'll be finishing the board that I designed this weekend, and hopefully bringing it in to school over the next week. All thats left for me is some small wetsanding to touch up the paint job, a couple polyurethane coats to make sure that it's well sealed and weatherproof, as well as adding griptape. I'll be testing it out with my own setup. We'll hopefully have 3 boards to present to our audience during our presentation.

Here are some pictures of the painted boards:

Takaaki's design:

My design:

Side by side:

And of course, some shenanigans with the boards:

Strange Things Happening 'Round These Parts

This week at Altus Boards, we've mostly just been focusing on getting our various boards sprayed with the appropriate coating. We have to prime the parts of the board to be painted, paint those parts, and coat with polyurethane. All of these require separate coats that take several hours to dry, so progress is limited. However, it is only a matter of going as often as possible to spray the boards, and the boards will be completed.

On Sunday, the Altus team is pulling our final 100% work day. Takaaki And I plan to come in at 8 A.M. and leave at 8 P.M. We have a pressed board ready to cut out, and we plan to have it stained by the end of the day. This work day will hopefully give us another board to present to our audience during our presentations. Overall, we hope to have 4 separate boards to present at the talk. Not all of the boards will be 100% functional, but this will allow us to delve into the learning aspect of our project.

Some unfortunate news is that while team member Shiv Matta was sanding the board at his house, it somehow warped out of the concave. We'll be trying to repress it, and are working our hardest to deduct what the source of this strange reshaping is. Here's a picture: