New Snowboard Company!!!
I’ll think bout investing if you are serious. Dont have a mil though haha..
On a similar note, my mates and I are going to build a skateboard press
I’m not really serious, I’m never in one place long enough to do it. Plus I think making a board that doesn’t break would be a nightmare.
Your skateboard decks on the other hand, I want to be one of your first customers! Let me know when you’re up and running, I’ll buy one for sure. Have u come up with a company name yet?And please don’t call it SHART Skateboards
Yeh, after we end up making something, bigger sizes could be an option.
hahaha Shartboards.
We were thinking Sunday Skateboards. Most of our best days skating are always Sundays and we have a saying “Chill out, its a Sunday” when someone is skating well and charging hard. So boards will include sayings based on that in the graphics.
Chill out, its a Sunday
Get gnarly, its a Sunday
etc
Interesting K2… keep me posted. I’m more curious than anything else. And yeah I’ve been thinking about getting some top quality BW decks manufactured in one of the leading factories in Canada. Would sell them at a very competitive price but the quality would surpass nearly all brands pressing in China etc. Still playing with the idea.
Hmmm I’ll have to check out Fyves custom boards, sounds like a step in the right direction.
But I was thinking more specific then that. Like length, width, profile BUT ALSO exact components.
Imagine taking the best parts of every board you’ve ever had and putting them into one.
So the length, width and profile to suit your current riding ability PLUS the base, core, edges, edge profile, top sheet and internals (carbon layers etc)
I’m just pipe dreaming, but it would be awesome.
The board I just bought is everything I want in a board EXCEPT I want Stepchilds sintered (golf base surface) base. I guess I’m just getting more and more picky
too many issues
most people who not have the foggiest about what they want to use and what can go with what
the unlimited possibilities (ala every third thursday style) = unknown cogs
dont see any business model surviving with that in place
if it does get done…it would be have to be a charity or R&D kind of thing
Yeah I know, it’s a logistical nightmare trying to make boards that way but also having them reliable.
It’s just an idea, I’m not actually going to follow through with it.
I can see what it was like for chemical storm to make just one board.
Still, a guy can dream. And I was thinking more for high end riders. Much like websites have a build a skateboard online tool on their site, you could have a build a snowboard tool.
Tell us Length, waist width and profile. Then pick the components one by one and build it on the site, with and tell the buyers the + & - of each component (and the price)
This lets them not only build a board they can’t complain about (cause they built it 
) but also lets them build a board to a price they are prepared to pay.
Of course before any of this happens, i would have to know how to make a few kinds of boards in the first place.
I don’t think it’s too much of a risk if you keep it small, and let it grow at a steady pace!!!!!
Start by doin boards for yourself or mates at cost of materials, then work your way up by adding a few extra $$$ to put back into your “Hobby”!!!!!
If it does start to grow, you can shape it however you like????? Sorry about the pun!!!!!
Just don’t give up ya day job in the beginnings, that’s all!!!!!
Yeh, we are looking into it at the moment. Prob gonna cost us about $400 in materials. Then we are hoping to source the decks through our contacts and get the same wood as Cliche use.
And last week at Knox park, a young fella was talking to me about Boardworld and asked if we made decks and if we were going too. Was an idea that I was gonna throw at you and have a chat about
So, you guys are just gonna print them?????
Sorry, I may have said that wrong. We are gonna get the blank, uncut decks to make the shape of our mold. So maybe 2 different sizes/shapes. And hopefully get the veneer wood from the same source.
Havent worked out how we are going to print on them yet. Actually thinking of every board being hand painted. This is not a mass production thing, just something fun and different for us and our mates.
My mate is an artist and skates, he will prob do designs. Havent looked into printing designs. Dont have equip for that.
You can get silk screens made up for your logo, and then run the other stuff usin stencils and hand paint?????
Interesting K2… keep me posted. I’m more curious than anything else. And yeah I’ve been thinking about getting some top quality BW decks manufactured in one of the leading factories in Canada. Would sell them at a very competitive price but the quality would surpass nearly all brands pressing in China etc. Still playing with the idea.
Yeah, there are some companies that can do it all very cheap, but like anything cheap, ya gotta buy in bulk!!!!!
I don’t think it’s too much of a risk if you keep it small, and let it grow at a steady pace!!!!!
Start by doin boards for yourself or mates at cost of materials, then work your way up by adding a few extra $$$ to put back into your “Hobby”!!!!!
If it does start to grow, you can shape it however you like????? Sorry about the pun!!!!!
Just don’t give up ya day job in the beginnings, that’s all!!!!!
Cheers for the encouragement Miz. Maybe I won’t just think of it as a pipe dream. I would LOVE to do this, even if it’s just on the side.
Maybe one day when I stop chasing the winter and buy a place of my own I might start looking into this for real 
I don’t think it’s too much of a risk if you keep it small, and let it grow at a steady pace!!!!!
Start by doin boards for yourself or mates at cost of materials, then work your way up by adding a few extra $$$ to put back into your “Hobby”!!!!!
If it does start to grow, you can shape it however you like????? Sorry about the pun!!!!!
Just don’t give up ya day job in the beginnings, that’s all!!!!!
Cheers for the encouragement Miz. Maybe I won’t just think of it as a pipe dream. I would LOVE to do this, even if it’s just on the side.
Maybe one day when I stop chasing the winter and buy a place of my own I might start looking into this for real
No worries mate!!!!!
I always look at it as if guys like Burton and Sims could do it, then why can’t Aitken????? There’s no reason why it can’t work if you have the passion, and attack it from a logical way!!!!!
When I set up a Surf/Skate Shop in my area, an area that had major, and I mean major, competitors!!!!!, I was told to my face that I was going to be bankrupted!!!!! By people that were in the industry!!!!!
They were very wrong!!!!!
I didn’t know you did that! Are you still running it now?
Nah, I sold it in 2007!!!!! I established it from the ground up, then ran it for 7 years!!!!!
It wasn’t quite the “Dream” that I had envisaged that it would be!!!!!
As you may very well know yaself, the industry is very political!!!!! Like most industries are these days I guess!!!!!
I enjoy leavin my work at work these days!!!!! The older I get the more irresponsible I’m gettin!!!!! 
That’s a good way to be. You have to be able to leave it at work or you just stress your whole life out.
Yeah, unfortunately even when ya on holiday, the business still needs tending to!!!!!
A Snowboard Company will be no different either!!!!!
The sport will change for you if you go ahead with it!!!!! For some it’s a good experience, for others not so, but there’s only one way to find that out!!!!!
Yeah true, Snowboarding and teaching is constantly running through my head now. But it’s my passion, so it doesn’t bother me at all.
But having business stresses and all that jazz hanging over me would be a different story. If I did do it, it would be a hobby for the most part I think.
Also I’ve been watching videos on how different companies make boards and there is so much involved and so many pieces of machinery. Unless I made it from scratch by gluing the wood strips together, I’m pretty sure just the cost of parts would be more than the average snowboard cost to buy lol.
Yeah, it wont be an easy road, but it’s nonetheless doable!!!!!
If ya can find a manufacturer (Ideally a Backyard setup) that will let ya do some work experience, it’ll be a great advantage!!!!!
And I dare say it will take quite few boards, before ya make one that’s actually ridable!!!!!