Today's charge is to finish the boards: Removing tape, possibly putting a clear finish on the boards, deciding on trucks and wheels and putting them on the boards. Wayne and Kevin will also give an introduction to the mechanics of trucks, bushings and wheels so that everybody understands what's going on and be able to maintain their boards. ... and then the moment everybody is waiting for: testing the board ...
Today, we painted and added designs to our boards. I
was originally going to paint a picture of the king on a deck of cards
but I figured that that would be too difficult, so I tried to choose am
easier design, Mickey Mouse. I chose Mickey Mouse because I love
cartooning, and Mickey is one of the first cartoons, created by Walt
Disney. Mickey Mouse represents not only childhood happiness but also a
long and successful history of cartooning and animation, things that I
am interested in. I wanted a recognizable logo and something that spoke
to me. The most stressful part of my week was carving the Mickey outline
out with an exacto knife. I thought it turned out well in the end
however.
Today was, in my opinion, the most important day because we were going
to make our boards unique with the graphics we were going to design and
pain on our boards. We started off with a talk about concussions which
got me thinking about concussions in snowboarding. My train of thought
then led me to the graphic on the bottom of my snowboard
as inspiration for a design to use for my longboard. Unfortunately, the
design I had hoped for was far too complicated for the methods and time
constraints that we had to work with. I then went for a stencil method
to produce a sharper image. This proved to be a little troublesome until
we had a breakthrough using transparent prints of my design and an
overhead projector. I traced the projected design onto my board and with
some tricks with tape, ended up with a nice stenciled design to paint. I
really wanted my design to have a simple, soft look and feel to it.
Because of this I painted the board a gloss black and used a simple blue
with a fade to purple paint scheme on the stencil.
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Today I decided upon my graphic for my longboard and I
continued on my secret (yet awesome) helmet design. After listening to a presentation on
concussions and what you should do even if you think you may be concussed, the
second day got underway ... I did a light
sanding to my longboard and then began on my graphics, but first I had to seal
my board. Then I covered all the edges
of the board with painters tape and went to work on my design. Firstly, I did a white base coat on the back
of the board and let it dry. Second, I
used the painter’s tape to help mask out the parts of my Israel flag that I
wanted to be white. After painting the
blue stripes I then proceeded to write the word ”Immanuel” which means god is
with us. Finally, I added the Star of David
and touched up any mistakes. I look
forward to doing the final seal on my board tomorrow and applying the grip take
and installing the hard wear (trucks).
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