Here is a slide show of the event that happened April 27 2008. By the end of the day everyone had it down!
Roarockit donated prizes and the BBQ for the event. Good times at the Poop Shute.

Here is a link to the full size pictures.

Enjoy

This is our new Thin Air Press blog. We will be highlighting projects, tutorials and news about vacuum veneering and the many things that can be done using THIN AIR!

Ted Hunter

Roarockit

Clicking on the video will take you to still pictures of the tutorial.

This article is from the Spring 2008 Concrete Wave Magazine. It’s entitled Have It Your Way. The article talks about board construction, deck graphics and grip tape. Roarockit is featured with lots of great pics. Thanks to Michael Brooke for including us in his great magazine. Concrete Rules!

DIY Drop Deck Tutorial

Many people ask if it is possible to make a drop board using our Thin Air Press. This tutorial goes through the process involved to making this type of deck.

In order to properly build this deck it is essential to review my FOOLPROOF DIY SKATEBOARD FOAM MOLD BUILD to see how to design your deck templates and how to shape your foam mold.

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This tutorial shows how to design templates and use hand tools to shape a foam mold for building a skateboard deck in the Roarockit Thin Air Press.

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Here is an email and pictures that we recieved about a router table build that looks amazing.

Vacuum Bag Success Link

Here is an invite for the opening of our new diggs. If you are in the Toronto area please feel free to come by and see what we are working on.

If you are into Marquetry you need to have a look at this. This is one of the best emails we have received at Roarockit. Enjoy.

A GIFT FOR PHILIP

Doug Stowe is using the Thin Air Press in a class at the wood shop of Clear Spring School. The Grade 7 and 8 students are building canes to give to their local free medical clinic. What a great project.

Here is the intro to Doug’s blog. I think it says it all.

Wisdom of the Hands

This blog is dedicated to sharing the concept that our hands are essential to learning- that we engage the world and its wonders, sensing and creating primarly through the agency of our hands. We abandon our children to education in boredom and intellectual escapism by failing to engage their hands in learning and making.

Thanks Doug for all your support.

http://wisdomofhands.blogspot.com:80/2007/04/in-wood-shop-today-at-clear-spring.html

Here is a link to an article about our Skateboard Deck kit featured in Canadian Woodworking Magazine. The article was in the Feb/March issue and can be purchased through their website.

Thanks Canadian Woodworking for the article.

http://www.canadianwoodworking.com/issue.php?updateid=61&displaymode=nooptions

The April issue of Woodsmith Magazine, no. 170 has a two page article (page 14) about our Thin Air press kit. The article and pictures are very well done, showing the simplicity of using the kit and its resuts.

Thanks Woodsmith for the great article.

The article is not online but can be picked up at almost all bookstores.

Here is the link:

http://www.woodsmith.com/issues/170/

Matt Berger manager editor of FinewoodWorking.com uses our Thin Air Press to build some fine looking skateboards in this wonderful article. Matt highlights the deck kits teaching potential. There is a great slide show on the site showing all the steps of the build.

Thanks Matt for the great article.

Here is the link:

http://www.taunton.com/finewoodworking/ProjectsAndDesign/ProjectsAndDesignArticle.aspx?id=27980

Norm Abrams from New Yankee uses our Thin Air Press to build the curves of a classic bow front chest.

Here is the link:

http://www.newyankee.com/video.cgi?0711

This tutorial shows how easy it is to build custom drawer faces using vacuum veneering. Learn how to make a custom foam mold that can be used to make multiple drawer faces for furniture or kitchen cabinets.

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Here are a couple of emails I received from Miikka A. Eerola about veneering a drum shell. Many thanks to Miikka for setting this up and sending pictures of his build.

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This is a tutorial on using an external mold with the Thin Air Press. Sometimes building a simple wooden mold that veneers and the TAP bag can be externally wrapped around is a better solution than an internal mold.

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An easy to do veneering project with dramatic results!

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This is a simple tutorial on laminating fancy veneers to a substrate material.

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This shows how to build a foam mold to laminate a chair back using the Thin Air Press. Building a mold using foam is an inexpensive alternative to making a mold from multi-layers of plywood. One of the good parts is that the material is inexpensive and the mold is completely re-usable many times over.

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