Great build there sir. 👏 this is just what I am looking to do. If you want to be really frugal, HDPE is all around the house. Check your bottles in the cupboard before recycling them and you'll find the recycle symbol with HDPE under so many. You can melt HDPE in a domestic oven and create blocks of it. Yes you'll need a fair bit, however you can have every colour you want including mixing colours. There's tutorials on here to should you how to do camo HDPE. Again though great video, I like your style, and your workshop is ace 👍 good luck learning to slide... see you in ER 🤣
@@gabrielauld2896 Do note that the result is not gonna be quite as sturdy as bought plastic stock (unless you compress the plastic while it's hardening in the mold), but propably usable still
I'm so happy that you put this video together, you're a dang legend my man. At some point in the past I made kicktail guards for my skateboard and I found the giant slab of plastic from that and I got to thinking that I could probably whip some sliders together for my skates with the leftovers from that. Super cool to know I'm not the first, love to see makers in diverse interests
Skaters just call Sliding, Grinding. Since I believe originally it came first on Skateboards that grinded on their metal trucks or wood deck on stone ledges. Later on when Bladers grinded on plastic frames on metal coping it's really more of a slide, but its called grinding no matter what side you are doing it on. It's always called grinding no matter if you are on Rollerskates, Inline skates, skateboard on BMX. Yet technically you are sliding, you call it grinding because it's cooler that way.
I am so happy that I found this video, I have been wanting to create my own blocks for a while. I am definitely going to try this!!!!
Great build there sir. 👏 this is just what I am looking to do. If you want to be really frugal, HDPE is all around the house. Check your bottles in the cupboard before recycling them and you'll find the recycle symbol with HDPE under so many. You can melt HDPE in a domestic oven and create blocks of it. Yes you'll need a fair bit, however you can have every colour you want including mixing colours. There's tutorials on here to should you how to do camo HDPE. Again though great video, I like your style, and your workshop is ace 👍 good luck learning to slide... see you in ER 🤣
Thanks for the heads up about melting them to get blocks, I'm definitely gonna look to see if that gives me more options for using the material I have
@@gabrielauld2896 Do note that the result is not gonna be quite as sturdy as bought plastic stock (unless you compress the plastic while it's hardening in the mold), but propably usable still
I'm so happy that you put this video together, you're a dang legend my man. At some point in the past I made kicktail guards for my skateboard and I found the giant slab of plastic from that and I got to thinking that I could probably whip some sliders together for my skates with the leftovers from that. Super cool to know I'm not the first, love to see makers in diverse interests
Thank you so much for making this video. It was exactly what I needed to figure out my own build!
HDPE works ok, but UHMW is muuuuch better
Skaters just call Sliding, Grinding. Since I believe originally it came first on Skateboards that grinded on their metal trucks or wood deck on stone ledges. Later on when Bladers grinded on plastic frames on metal coping it's really more of a slide, but its called grinding no matter what side you are doing it on. It's always called grinding no matter if you are on Rollerskates, Inline skates, skateboard on BMX. Yet technically you are sliding, you call it grinding because it's cooler that way.
I was trying to do this too! Good job 👏🏼
I have a question about the metal base. how did you get it to bend at the angle it needs.
Me and my dad are planning on making a pair for my skates. How’d you find out how big your hada be?
Is it possible to use wood instead of HDPE?
Hi! Where I could buy this HDPE block? thanks!
What's the size of the EDPE block you've cut?
Where did you find the hdpe block at? I can only find 2inch thick ones
Whats the measurements of the block?