My Best 3D Printed Skateboard Mold Yet!
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- čas přidán 10. 07. 2024
- I think I nailed it this time. I took everything I've learned in three years of experimenting with 3d printed skateboard molds and combined it into a mold system that I honestly think kicks but. Hope you dig it!
Get the files to print your own molds:
www.goodroadscollective.com/s...
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www.goodroadscollective.com/s...
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It's really nice to see that while you are keeping your custom mold designs to yourself, that you're also offering a standard style up for sale. Thats a great way to allow people new to the hobby to have a starting foundation to give it a try, see if they can, and like doing it. If they do, they can expand on it themselves to make something their own. It's like myself with my resin crafts, I tried molds offered by others, and finding I did enjoy it went from there to learn how to make my own going off how others did it, until I found my own style of doing it that works best for what I want. Yet I likely never would have gone that far if it wasn't for people like you who are willing to share, even if for a price something everyone can start off with.
Can't wait to see stacks of different molds on your shelves / what your production setup will look like for cutting / shaping vs what we've already seen! I like how you are documenting the process of scaling up.
This is brilliant, congrats man!👏👏👏
What an awesome movement to be apart of!! Open source made at home skateboards!
Awesoooooooome as always man! 👌🏻
I’m not the best in CAD so I would love to see how you design these molds with those types of features. I want to try and do something similar with 3D printed snowboard molds.
I would LOVE to see a video of you just goofing around and talking through the tweaks you make to customize your molds.
I have been looking around youtube for something like that and haven't been able to find anything
I LOVE your work.
This is so awesome. I already have the bishop which works great and ordered the truck drilling guide. Can't wait to try out the mold when you have it up for sale. Keep up the great work and videos.
Thanks homes and thanks for supporting!
The Greatest of all time!!!
This is sooooooooo coooool I love your videos!!
this is fab, tricky shape to model so kudos to you sir! I teach CAD in secondary school. Many of my pupils like making boards and all my plugs are timber, I might look into a printed mold. Great work- love your channel and your presentation style 👍
Thanks dude! CAD is definitely tricky and frustrating some times but getting it to work is half the fun
Awesome 🤙🏼 yeah thanks for sharing giving me ideas for my press that needs upgrade, but I need time to do as I've been busy on other things arrrh plus need to fix my car 😞😞 but will get there, And will show you once it's done 😀👍🏽 may be next year 🤔🤔 hopefully sooner
Here from your reddit post, very original you got a new subscriber! Love it!
Hey, thanks! Welcome!
Very cool
In slicers like Cura, you can designate areas that have different amounts of infill than the rest of the print. So you can surround your guide-holes with a rectangular prism volume and have it do 100% infill around those areas if you want. Really nice work btw!
There are built in shapes/tools in Cura that allow it, but you could probably get what you want using this method too: czcams.com/video/xc-6xVB9H4I/video.html
That's really handy. I thought this was only a feature of prusa slicer and didn't know you could do it in Cura
Can you make a video about how you design the mold in 3D software, all I can make are circles and blocks lol.
Would have loved to see more og the quality of the board..
Pls make more fingerboard obstacles 😃
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Great thing. Thanx for video)
Any other snowboard builds?)
When the season comes around I will definitely be tackling more snow projects!
Seriously great work mate, love your videos. I started making boards back when I saw one of your videos on foam molds, I’ve been looking into a more permanent solution but ruled out 3D printing as it seemed too costly (not owning a 3D printer), do you have any idea how much the filament cost you for this project ? Thanks for the awesome content keep it up.
I don't have an exact number because I keep messing with my print settings, but I'm going to do a set of the molds that I've got the files available for and keep track of material costs. I'll let you guys know when I've got that info
I'm interested in hearing what you think about that glue spreader once you've put some time into it.
Short version: it rocks. I gotta get some time in on the decks to see if the glue seams feel as solid because it puts down less glue than a paint nap but it's making for the most pleasant layups I've ever done
Super stoked on the builds. From what I can see from the thumbnail pic, your registration pins are interfering with your veneers. You can see it a bit in the uncut as well. I have a very old 3D printer, Cube 3 with an old, outdated slicer. Considering printing shells like you to reduce print time but filling with concrete of epoxy and fine aquarium sand and possibly glass fiber for strength. I've worked with it before (not glass fiber) and it is a little easier to handle than soupy plaster. My main hang-up is that epoxy is an exotherm, but I am hoping by reducing the effect by basically diluting it with sand. I need to keep the heat from deforming the PLA. I believe plaster is an exotherm as well, but I know that too much unused epoxy can cause fires. Did you have issues with the heat of the setting plaster affecting your 3D prints?
The heat didn't but the weight did since when I was using plaster they we pretty thin-walled vase mode prints. The plaster made some of the bow out a bit. I think that would be less of a problem with all the little cells the grid infill makes
Do you have any plans on showing how you do the cad work for your decks?
He goes into it a little in other videos on the channel on 3D printed molds. You should check them out. He uses Fusion 360. I use Sketchup and was considering posting some videos walking through how I shape my deck geometries. Are you familiar with cad software? My major advice is to take VERY careful measurements of decks you like, and go from there. You can even measure angles with an iPhone.
There's a video going pretty deep on mold making on Facebook, I'll send you the link if you're interested.
@@andreweyo-ita4970 I would be interested ;)
That'd be an easy enough video to put together, I'll add it to the backlog
How much for a pool deck mold will you sell one
Hello friend, the knobs that you use in your molds are created by you or they are a downloaded file, I would appreciate the information
I designed those for myself, I could probably make the files available though
Do you think a mold like this could have the same strength if it was sliced vertically was well horizontally? Thank you - from a person with a wimpy printer bed
I don't think so, my technique relies pretty heavily on the orientation of the infill grid. What you could do though is just break the models down into smaller pieces so they'll fit on your bed. I've got an open source version of these molds that should be pretty easy to modify: www.goodroadscollective.com/open-source-skateboard-mold
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i don’t have a 3d printer and was wondering if you would be willing to sell me a mold and how much it would be
I'm hoping to have them available as print-on-demand by next week! I've got to get more materials and get my pricing/shipping worked out
It was pretty emotionally jarring to get in to your channel, see how everything I saw up to this point was free and open source, and then after this super cool video I am told "NO THIS IS MINE". Like I was so jazzed and then it felt like a let down. I thought you were joking after how open everything else has been, and when I realized you weren't joking I felt toyed with. Not saying you should have shared that board, but the way it was presented felt kinda harsh. Would have rather had a frank "I am keeping this specific design for my own use but I have another version available" rather than the extended "NO MINE" thing. Anyway just some feedback because I really love open source and that caught me off guard. Also since the design you did share is paywalled, people won't be able to distribute derivatives, which is a bummer. Anyway I might consider buying the files, but I would want to know the maximum print dimensions required. My large format printer is a funny shape as the bed is 250mm x 370mm. Great work all around tho, I really appreciate the videos you are producing and I really feel like I could make my own skateboard now. I do wonder if selling the files is worth blocking derivatives. There's always people out there who want to improve things on their own, essentially giving away their engineering for free. But that only happens when redistribution is permitted, which paywalls tend to prevent. Thanks for the work you've done and the stuff you have shared!
I understand where you're coming from, and I share a lot of your feelings about open source hardware which is why so much of my work has been released that way so far. The "this one is mine" statement is specifically about the board geometry that's pressed by the mold set in this video, not about the mold making techniques. Geometry is a place where I think board sport companies can differentiate themselves and shine. The molds can be made any number of ways, but the qualities of what you're making with the molds is what matters. Mike Osterman's most recent video about Waltz's new shape is an awesome example of that.
My hope with this channel is that I can help people make their own board designs, so making standard tooling available helps with that but the idea of a market place flooded by copy+paste gear makes me sad. I want the techniques to be available so that people can get out there and make the specific hardware that _they've_ been dreaming of. When I take a stab at making the hardware that _I've_ been dreaming of for years, like this deck or my mountain board deck for example, that's where I don't feel the need to share. With much love and levity: y'all make your own shapes and I'll make mine, I'll just show you how to do it, right?
Remember too that Good Roads is a company, the content here on CZcams is actually only a fraction of how I'm keeping it alive, most of it is sales. I think in the future for projects like this one where I've sunk SO much time into fine tuning and polishing everything I'm going to aim for a paid-but-open type of license. That would allow for derivative design, like you say, and would still help keep the company afloat. It's something I think about and go back and forth on a lot. In my dream world I would give all this stuff to y'all for free but in this world I got bills to pay so I'm doing my best to get you what I can and I just hope that it's useful. I'm new to this whole business thing, the open source hardware thing, and the places where they intersect, and just like learning to make wheels or trucks or whatever I'm still learning in those areas too. I appreciate the feedback. Hopefully we can figure it out together and make some cool stuff along the way!
@@GoodRoads I understand wanting to keep some geometry for your company. It was specifically the way the information was delivered that felt off for me personally.
On a practical level though, how can you have a paid product but allow derivatives? If you allow derivatives then someone would buy your part, make whatever change they want, and then.... do they give that away for free? I am big in the open source world, and I never really see paid items that allow derivatives because normally people who distribute derivatives do so for free, and that would undermine the paid original.
I hear you on being a business. I am managing an open source project and we are working on moving funding from a single donor to crowd funding. I noticed that you have a patreon but you don't always mention it? One way to recover value for all the time you put in to making great videos is to push your patreon harder. Call in the crowd and ask them to help keep things open source. For example the Godot video game engine is entirely funded by patreon and they pull in $15k per month to cover engineering expenses for multiple people. I just became your newest patron so I can help a little bit. :)
I mean, funding is a tough nut to crack so you should definitely experiment with strategies including paywalling work. Just be aware it can reduce or stop derivatives, which may or may not matter in the end. I definitely want you to find a funding stream that keeps your work going!
Lastly, I am genuinely interested in buying your mold design! But my large format printer bed is a weird shape - 250mm x 370mm - and I don't know the maximum dimensions of your mold. Could you check that and add it to the product page? Thanks!
Thanks for the support! I really appreciate that. I always feel weird asking people for money. I'm way more of a designer than a marketer or sales person. I have huge respect for those trades and it's only grown since I've started hawking my own wares.
The largest sections of the molds are 236mm x 274mm so it looks like they'll fit in your volume just fine. I'm finding myself in an exceptionally busy week but I'll get that info up on the site ASAP.
I appreciate the conversation and the feedback, thank you!
Great work. Quick tip if you need your molds to be much more resistant to compression : just cast concrete inside. An epoxy / sand mix is also very effective. Used this technique to hydroform stainless steel sheet !
Can you make any models that would fit the 3d ender pro? Please? I'm super broke and feel I could afford to make my own boards at better cost than buying my favorite brand Santa Cruz for 60$ every time...
How many can you press at once ?
This mold was designed with a one deck offset, I've used it to press two and it worked but I haven't really tried anything more than that.
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Why didn't you just 3D Print the deck ha ha