Here is another ramp that I made. First one that I painted.

I might be selling this one. I plan on selling a few to help pay for the trip.



Does it look more like a half pipe now?



I cut everything down to size, I just need to figure out the curve.

Okay, now here is the big one and I might need help from you guys.

I originally wanted to have a park there, but have considered just having the various ramps that I've made just placed around at the event.

The question is..... should I just have these ramps separate or should I place them on a table like a park as you see in the picture?

So separate ramps or park? And tell me which one would be better.

Also the rails from Airflo Dave are in these pics, finally got them today.

Okay, so I'm really tired. FYI if you plan on building stuff just do it way in advance.

I started weeks ago and now only have like 2 day until I'm leaving for the Texas Rendezvous.

So the next two days I'm going to work like crazy to finish up everything.

Since I build some of these ramps out of old shelves I wanted to paint them to give them a better finish, but now after painting them I'm debating on whether I like the surfaces or not.

It seemed like the regular wood surface, even though visually unpleasing actually was excellent to fingerboard on.

I haven't had time to fingerboard on these so I'll see for myself how they turn out.





Here is basically my first completed ramp.

I just put on that metal coping too, but here is the deal. I just set the coping on top of the ramp and its not flush with the wood.

I made all my old ramps this way and had really no problems.



However, since I'm trying to go the extra mile with this event I decided to try and make the coping flush with the wood on one of my old ramps I posted earlier.

This isn't the best job, but I got it more or less. This was done with a belt sander and just eyeballing it. I may go to Home Depot and see if they have a special router bit or something for this.



I also fixed up some other stuff on this old ramp. It looked just fine in the picture, but the original coping was not great (fixed now), the down rail was loose (fixed now), it was actually broken into two pieces (fixed now thanks to epoxy).

So its now ready for anyone to ride at the event.



Now, I will be leaving Friday and the event is Saturday. This leaves me with Wednesday (tomorrow) and Thursday to basically wrap it all up.

I want to complete that half pipe tomorrow for sure!

Please cheer me on because I don't have much time.

OMG I'm done!!!

I'm done I'm done I'm done.

Well I just finished making the ramps. OMG I'm tired and exhausted.

I've made some ramps before, but man these just took so much effort and I was trying to go the extra mile and make them as best as I could.

One of the reasons why it took me a long time and lots of hard work is because I don't necessarily have the best tools for the jobs that I was trying to complete. 

Cutting straight lines with a scroll saw is not the best thing and It took me a long time because I was learning and doing new things which I've never done before.

In high school when I build ramps I didn't mess with any angles or cut any wood at certain angles (well a little but not a lot) nor did I try and make the metal coping flush with the wood on the transitions nor ever build a ramp with a curve on it otherwise known as a quarter pipe.

So yeah, It took a lot of effort because I had to figure all this stuff out and experiment with stuff, come up with techniques and so on.

Here you can see that I've pretty much got the hang of flushing out the metal coping on the transition. 

I don't know how everyone else does it, but what I did was marked off where the coping was going to be placed and then put a bunch of layers of masking tap on the wood part that I want to keep and not cut then take a razor blade and make a clean cut into the wood and kind of dig out a little of the wood. Then I take my belt sander and smooth out the rest of the wood that I want gone.

I wanted to use like a router, but that metal is so thin I ended up not doing it. 



And this is as flush as that baby is going to get.



Here is the kink rail and its even screwed in too.



Also I didn't just eyeball that rail when I screwed in it. I measured it and its dead center. 



And here is the quarter pipe, finally with coping on it. I also had to trim it a little for it to sit flat on a table.

 

Here is the other one with the shot gun rail. Finished at last.



And all that metal coping was cut by hand with metal sheers. Not easy!!!



And since these rails are from Airflo and put some stickers on there to represent!!!




So I talked about a half pipe or mini ramp and I was really wanting to do it, but I loaded all of the ramps in the car and didn't really see anymore room to put it.

I might have been able to fit it in, but I just ran out of time. I'm going to drive up there one day in advanced so I'm leaving Friday and then the event is Saturday.

Hopefully there will be some cool footage and stuff from the event. I'll try and post a video on youtube.

sounds sick bro!

Hope the event went well! Just so you know the kink rail goes on the next step down... or at least that's how I designed it. Looks great either way!

Here are some pics from the event.

I should have taken more, actually I didn't even take these someone else did.

But yeah, more pics would have been nice. It's almost as if you need a filming crew with you at the event an order to capture all the highlights.

I was just trying to do all the fingerboarding that I could and get my fill I guess.










Here you can see the three big ramps that I brought.



This Bobby's park (AKA 4 Corner owner). I had a hard time skating this due to the tiles and that half pipe is a Techdeck one.






This is Bobby's as well. This park had some good spots and some not so good spots. The best part was the ramp-gap-ramp thing in the middle. That was fun. And that glue/wood putty you see everywhere is supposed to represent sand or the beach or something.




And me.



Oh and one thing that was really funny was that there was this one kid who came in at the last like 30 min and he said that he just came to get some grip tape...... LOLOLOLOL

I think he just paid the entrance fee and then selected a goody bag with some tape in it and then I think he just left. HAHAAHHAHHAHAH!!!

Pureskate wrote:

DUDE sweet 'fro!

And here is the video.

This is really the first time I've ever had footage of me on youtube.

I've been wanting to make some videos, but am not happy with my camera quality as of right now.

And the worst part is that I nailed some pretty sick tricks, but most of them weren't even filmed. Oh well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DYPw_wLPi8

Oh how I wish I could have gone. But seeing as I live in El Paso and it is a 10 hour drive for me, and my truck goes through gas faster than a football team at a all you can eat, it would have cost me an arm and a leg.

^ @Cassoday

Mystery Fingerboards owner and I live in Houston. She wants to host the next Texas Rendezvous also I am very interested in wanting to have the next event in Houston.

So Texas Rendezvous 4 will probably be next summer in Houston.

Keep in touch.

The ramps were amazing Eric, you did an awesome job on them!

And here is a link to more photos: http://texasfingerboardrendezvous.weebly.com/photos.html

Feel free to use any of them