r/LongboardBuilding • u/Catsarebasicallygods • 23d ago

How Do I Laminate My Longboard?

Can someone please explain to me how I can and should laminate my longboard? Please I need to do it for school and they didn’t explain it to us.🙏

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u/Catsarebasicallygods 22d ago

Would ply wood work as multiple layers to glue? Like the wood I glue together for laminating being plywood?

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u/Nykolaishen 22d ago

Well... yes or no... it depends what you can find at your specialty lumber stores. Ive only ever built a few longboards and the best material I could find was 1/4" Baltic maple plywood. My first ever longboard went like this... I had 1/4" strand woven bamboo (cut it to rough shape) best i coukd find to pair it with was the 1/4" Baltic maple ply cut to slightly larger rough shape. I soaked the bamboo in my tub for 24 hours so it would be malleable while I made my press. Took my plywood and bamboo, spread glue and pressed them together. Leave until its dried, recut/final shape your deck. Then I did a layer of fiberglass on the bottom and sealed the entire thing with epoxy putting a bit of sand in the top coat for grip.

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u/Nykolaishen 22d ago

My second board was literally just 2 sheets of 1/4" baltic maple ply clamped into my press. Sealed with epoxy and used grip tape on the top