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Matthew MSBD
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 6:52 am Reply with quote
Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 52 Location: MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
Somebody out there must know how fiberlights and featherlights are made. I've been racking my brains and searching the net but danged if i can find anything. Thankyou in advance for help people...
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oasis
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 3:53 pm Reply with quote
Joined: 28 Jun 2003 Posts: 364 Location: Hilo,Hawaii
element usually gives their dealers little cross-cut samples of the deck. you might check those out, it explains the difference too.

i think its just a marketing gimmic though.
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skinny
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 9:06 pm Reply with quote
Joined: 12 Sep 2004 Posts: 2706
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Element took the seven-ply market by storm when it released its featherlight construction a couple years ago. Developed by Kris Markovich and manufacturer Paul Schmitt, Featherlight features shaved cross veneers for reduced weight. Because a deck's strength primarily depends on the plies with grain running nose-to-tail, these plies are as thick in the Featherlight as in regular seven-ply decks. But since cross veneers don't add much nose to tail strength, reducing weight by further thinning them produces an overall lighter and thinner deck without sacrificing much strength.

Element tested and refined the Featherlight construction for six months before releasing it, and its success has prompted many other brands to develop similar constructions.
Here is the whole article:
http://www.skateboarding.com/skate/magazine/article/0,12768,200733,00.html
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Area 51
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 11:37 pm Reply with quote
Joined: 11 Mar 2005 Posts: 840 Location: Incredibly distant star
While Featherlights have a nice light, thin feel, they deepen the concave to compensate and to stiffen it up. But twist it torsionally, and you'll feel the thinness.

Fiberlight is simply a fibreglass beam imbedded in the middle of the board. But they don't seem to be that much stronger (or lighter). I've seen a few break.

The strongest deck I've seen is a Lib Tech, but they ride differently than your standard 7 ply, they are extremely stiff and it takes a while to use to the pop. The strongest deck I've seen with a wood feel is the Santa Cruz Powerlyte.
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Matthew MSBD
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 4:26 am Reply with quote
Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 52 Location: MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
We've tried thinning cross bands and deeper concaves but they they do twist alot easier. It is the fiberglass and wood that has me stumped, they are obviously using a special glue...maybe and epoxy or something like that...Thanks for the info so far, if anybody else has something i'd like to hear it. Thanks, Matthew
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