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Re: Skin-on-Frame: Nylon rub strips?
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 8/19/2010, 2:46 pm
In Response To: Skin-on-Frame: Nylon rub strips? (Kudzu)

: Just helped a neighborhood kid make some "sliding gloves"
: for use with his long board. He showed up with a nylon(?)
: cutting board which we cut up and heated/melted to bond to the
: gloves. Easy to work with and I assume if I boil it, it would
: soften enough to bend to the shape of the bow. Plus It's cheap.
: Anyone used a cutting board or some other plastic?

: Yes, wood will work and that is what I have used in the past. They
: just start to looking bad and so I looking around at other
: options.

Cutting boards are normally polyethelene, HDPE, same stuff that Tom Yost uses for frames in the folders. Nylon's a poor choice, it sucks up water.

Bill H.

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: Nylon rub strips?
Kudzu -- 8/19/2010, 1:50 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Nylon rub strips?
JohnK -- 8/19/2010, 6:49 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Nylon rub strips?
Bill Hamm -- 8/19/2010, 2:46 pm
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Phil Nelson -- 8/19/2010, 11:36 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 8/20/2010, 1:29 am
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Phil Nelson -- 8/20/2010, 8:05 am
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Bill Hamm -- 8/20/2010, 12:13 pm
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Will N to go -- 8/19/2010, 4:12 pm
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Kudzu -- 8/19/2010, 4:33 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: HDPE rub strips?
Paul G. Jacobson -- 8/20/2010, 6:38 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Nylon rub strips?
Dave Gentry -- 8/19/2010, 3:56 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Nylon rub strips?
Bill Hamm -- 8/19/2010, 4:09 pm