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.

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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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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Here is a link to a series of streaming videos I have produced. Included is a good tutorial on using the Thin Air Press for clamping a marquetry project to a substrate.

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