1. SkateBoard Design
By Jarrod Plant

2. Situation/Brief
As students at Orewa college we are blessed with an environment that allows us to play golf, swim, surf, ride on ripstick, fishing and skating. The benefits of these activities are because its fun, it helps your fitness, it gives you a buzz its good for your coordination, it is relaxing, good for self image and socially healthy

3. Mental And Physical Needs
Mental Health
Stamina
Confidence
Fitness
Awareness
Cardio
Decision Making
Aerobic
Thinking
Balance
Co-ordination
Reflexes

4. Nelson Creek Skateboards
Nelson Creek skateboards are homemade in nelson and are a well known company

5. CheapSkates And UnderGround Skate
What they sell:
Skateboards
Protective gears
Snowboards
Bags
Clothes
Footwear
Accessories
Surfboards
Scooters
They have stores located in takapuna, mt eden, and Papatoetoe
Underground skate have a shop located in Orewa
They sell lots of new Zealand brands and other countries brands

6. Skater Ability Kick Me Jarrod Harry George Ben Dan Cade
Type of board
Dimensions
Truck placement
Griptape
Tail+nose
Kick
Graphics
Camber Me
Std
Jarrod Na
Harry
Shifty fish
Shifty
George
Skate
Madrid
Drop through
Yes
Ben
Dan
Novice
Cade
Stdstd

7. Finding Trends
Looking at this table I can see that the most common types of boards are standards and only few who don’t have skateboards

8. Safe Value Age and ability Colour Performance Well made Terrain Me 8
Stakeholder or client
Durable
Safe
Value
Age and ability
Colour
Performance
Well made
Terrain Me 8 10
14/average
Most
8 1/2 9
Concrete
Mr Nelson
Passed it
Subdued
Parents 7
N/a
Any
Jarrod
15/algood
Alot
Gravel/concrete

9. Point tip, Cruising wheels, Racing Stripes on the Grip for Effect, Kick For Ollieing up curbs, Flow Design, cruising Trucks.

10. Existing Design Name: Betty Skates Cherry Bomb
Size: 31 x 8 15/16, 5.375
Trucks with 90a Bushings
65mm Wheels, Abec 7 bearings
Canadian Maple 6 Ply with 2 layer Bamboo Ply and USA Glue.

11. Name:
Blur Skate Complete
Size: 7.75 inch Quality Maple 7 ply Deck - 51mm High 99a Wheels - Raw Trucks - ABEC 7 Bearings - Quality Black Grip Tape

12. Globe Bantam Pink
DECK 24" LENGTH WITH TAIL KICK 7" WIDTH WHEEL HIGH GRADE URETHANE 62MM/83A CONICAL WHEELS TRUCK 4.25" SLANT

13. STAR WARS YODA CRUZER
Deck
Size: 10" X 28.5"  Cruzer features wheel wells, 68mm, 78a Star Wars™ cruzer wheels, and Bullet Trucks 

14. 20 Test Questions Is it for Good For Cruising?
Will The skateboard Hold me Putting pressure on the deck?
Will it steer straight?
Will it be comfortable to ride?
Will it have good pop off the kick?
Will it be easy to control?
Will it last?
Will the art work Survive against a Board Slide?
Is the board to thick or thin?
Is it safe to use?
Will the deck survive against waterlog control
Is it to heavy or light?
Will the edges be smooth?
Can I land a successful Ollie?
Will the edges chip?
Will the kick be good sized?
Can I turn Right and Left easily?
Will the trucks be straight?
Will it last if on landing a trick?
Is it the right sizing for my feet?

15. Conclusion
I am going to design a Old School board that could be marketed by Underground Skate . It will be ridden anywhere ranging from Skate Parks and cruising the streets. I will take into consideration the rides weight because I don’t like to ride something too heavy. Its height is just as important because if its to high the kick wont work as well. It will be built with durability in mind because The safety of it will be depended on The value for money. As for the performance, will depend on how well it is made according to my highly developed design.

16. How my technological modelling supports my decision-making

17. Information gathered from modeling Advantages disadvantages
Modeling method
Pic of model
Information gathered from modeling
Advantages
disadvantages
how this has showed it could or should have happened
Tech Deck
what it could look like in the
future
-how clamping works
-how to grip a board
-physical idea
-practice moulding,
shaping, drilling,
gripping, clamping
-Very small
-time consuming
-easy to break
This showed that if
you drill the truck
holes wrong it could
ruin the board.
This helped me decide
which board shape I would
use for my final boad.

21. Board Graphics Concepts

23. Flow Chart

24. Beginning Construction
After I cut out my wood sheets for my skateboard I Glued them Together. I spread the glue all over my board but I didn’t make the glue to thick or to thin, I put each side of my wood between two cardboard sheets to stop the board from sticking to the mold then I lined the wood up with my mold.

25. Once I lined my wood up with the bottom half of my mold I got help to put on the top half. I lined my wood up again and then placed two planks of wood down with a third one on top so that I could put pressure on the mold without damaging the mold itself.

26. Once I put the pressure on I left my skateboard in the mold from Thursday through to Tuesday.

27. After being in the mold for the weekend I took my skateboard out of the mold. The glue had dried and my skateboard was mold to shape.

28. Tools and Equipment Concrete Mold
I used the mold to shape my board into the shape of a skateboard
Hydraulic Press
I used the press to apply pressure to the mold so that my skateboard could fit the shape and the glue could dry into my shape and stick

29. I used a pencil and a template to trace my shape onto my skateboard

30. I used a pencil and a template to trace my shape onto my skateboard
Band saw
I used the saw to cut out my shape of my skateboard around the pencil template
I used sand paper to sand my board until it had rounded edges and then I used smoothing sand paper to make my board smooth

31. I used a skateboard truck with the middle line marked out to find where to put my trucks and then used a vivid marker to make the holes show. Then I used a center punch to lightly dent a hole in each spot where I wanted to drill so the drill piece would stick and drill where I wanted it to

32. Safety

33. Tech Deck Scale
My tech deck was my original shape for my skateboard but I decided to make a new template up when I took my board out of the mold.

34. The shape is old school with a wide tail and steep kick for popping ollies up curbs. The nose is curved and extends out the sides then slopes back in to connect with the tail.

35. The graphics are my original choice which is the zebra striped background with the wolf head, but I decided to change it to a different wolf without the stripes. The rice paper didn’t stick very well because we only used clear coat not proper resin.

36. Hand Board
The shape on the right is the shape I used to make my hand board and make the template for my real board, but this is where I chose to make a new template using the basic ones from class.

37. Problems faced during construction
I rushed my cutting out so I didn’t get an even nose. When I went to drill my truck holes there was chips around the holes and I also marked my holes wrong and ended up with off truck holes.

38. Things I could have done to prevent these
When cutting I could have slowed it down and took my time or just took more time sanding but then I would have a shorter nose. And when I drilled my holes I could have put wood underneath so it didn’t crack also I should have lined my trucks up and checked again until I knew it was right.

39. Things I changed from my original design
I decided to use a different template for my board because it was easier and looked more natural. I used a different design because it looked better and was easier than printing off the zebra pattern, I decided to dye my board and put a different wolf head on.

40. Modified Brief