carbon fiber skateboards

Hey guys just wondering if anyone has tried a skateboard with carbon fiber in and if so how was it. i had seen one at the skate park the other day and i just questioned getting one for a bit of fun.
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Hey Eamon, when you say carbon fiber in it do you, do you mean the decks with inserts/sheets of carbon fiber?

You have a few options when it comes to these types of decks.
P2 which is used by quite a few companies, is a oval-shaped aramid fiber in the top ply. Helps stiffen the board and gives some extra pop. Have a look at the website http://www.p2skateboards.com/

Impact, which is used by DSM manufacturing have 3 different styles. Support, light and plus which all use a carbon-fiber inserts of some kind. The support has two discs at the truck mounts on the underside of the deck with 8 plys instead of 7 plys. The light is a single insert on the top ply. Plus use both the discs in the bottom and the insert in the top. The website for impact http://impact-skate.com/

Fiberlam. Done by Watson laminates they did two models. Fiberlam and Fiberprime. One had 6plys of maple with 2 plys of carbon-fiber and the other just had a top layer of carbon-fiber. I am not sure how much these guys are manufacturing of them these days.

Manton skateboards. ECM is a manufacturing process used by them to make the board stronger. 7 plys of maple and 2 carbon-fibers plys, one on the top and another between the 5th and 6th ply. This has increased the weight of the deck but has made it poppy and strong. Mitch Faber has done a review on them and hasn’t snapped one. Check his review here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFGQabV7Fvo.
Manton is also an Australian company. Website here http://www.mantonskateboards.com.au/index.php/en/

Folklore also do a carbon-fiber deck called fibre tech as well as fibre tech lite which is slightly thinner than the fibre tech.

I have skated a P2 deck and enjoyed it with the feel of the pop and slightly stiffer board. At this point in time I am riding a Manton SAF and I am enjoying it. I don’t break board but I make them soggy so the stiffness of the board and the fact that it doesn’t lose it shape is what I like.

I hope this help, an questions hit me up.

I might enter into this one. CJ you nailed it with most of the companies that use carbon fiber in their production process. Carbon Fiber can be used in 2 ways, to help reduce the amount of wood that is used in the board to create a lighter, thinner, stiffer board, not a stronger board. The other use is to add it to standard 7 ply construction to make the board stronger but heavier.
A good point to remember is hard rock maple (Canadian Maple) is a natural product and with all natural products they can vary in strength from ply to ply. Using man made materials such as carbon fibre and epoxy resins helps to give your boards more consistency through your manufacturing process and helps to eliminate natural variations.
I am a big fan of using alternative materials in skateboards as you have to remember 7 ply Canadian Maple skateboard manufacturing was developed 30 years ago, the tricks that are going down today on a skateboard were not even in the wildest imaginations of skateboard pioneers 30 years ago.
Any questions feel free to ask.  Butch