How to make a fingerboard with your own hands?

If you want to make a fingerboard with your own hands, you need to know how it is arranged. Fingerboard consists of four main parts: deck, pendants, wheels and skins (flu tap). Deck usually made of wood, some models have plastic decks, but in the case of a self-made fingerboard the deck will be wooden.

Suspension consists of four parts: platform, kingpin (axle, pivot), shock absorbers and gaskets. Wheels are plastic or polyurethane, they can be equipped with bushings or bearings. Skin covers the deck from above for better grip with the fingers, it can be made of sandpaper or neoprene.

Of course, if you decide to make a fingerboard with your own hands, then you will have to use improvised materials, so you probably will not get a fingerboard with polyurethane wheels or neoprene coating.

You can make a fingerboard from a simple wooden ruler. The standard length of the Fisnerdord is 95 mm, socut off or saw off a piece of a ruler of such length. With the help of a pencil or pen, mark the outline of the deck, rounding the corners of the workpiece (do not overdo it, or you will get an irregular shape of the fingerboard).

Carefully grind the workpiece along the intended contour with the help of a file. Then, peel off the edges and level them with sandpaper. Now we need round the front and back ends of the deck - nose and tail (nose and tail). To do this, you need to saw the workpiece in the expected bends. Here it is very important to make the optimal napil: if the saw is small, the board will not bend, and if it is too much, it can break.

The sawed ruler is lowered into boiling water and let it soften slightly.. Then bend the front and back edges of the deck up. It is desirable that it does not break and does not crack. But even if this happened, do not be discouraged. If the ruler has broken - glue it at the right angle, if cracked - cover the cracks with glue. It is better to glue two times, because the glue will be absorbed into the wood.

Then you need to clean the deck with sandpaper and glue the skin. For sandpaper, you can use sandpaperor an old mouse pad for a computer mouse - which you prefer. It is better to use an emery with a thin layer of sputtering, so that you do not scratch your fingers while performing tricks.

Ready to paint the paint (preferably a marker), if desired, you can paste on it some picture. Finally, cover it with a colorless varnish and allow to dry. Instead of a ruler for the manufacture of the deck, you can use plywood.

Now you can proceed manufacture of pendants. To do this, take a simple pencil and sawfrom him two pieces of a length of about 7 mm each. One side of the future suspension platform, use a file to fit snugly against the deck. For beauty pencil can be painted.

Then, using a clerical knife, cut the notch from the side opposite to the one you were sewing. Take the empty rod from ballpoint pen and cut off from it two pieces 9-10 mm long each. Piece of the core paste the notches that you made in the suspension platform.

Then cut two pieces of needles with a little more than the lengths of the handle bars, these are the axles for the wheels. For the wheels themselves, you can use plasticbeads of suitable shape or pieces of pencil with extracted lead. Glue the wheel on one end of the needle, slide it through the length of the rod and glue the second wheel. Repeat the same with the second pair of wheels.

Finished pendants in the deck. Since the suspension is the most vulnerable part of a fingerboard, you need to glue it tightly. Between the suspension and the deck it is worth attaching a thin elastic band for depreciation.

Your fingerboard with your own hands is ready! Now you can start to learn tricks and impress friends and acquaintances with your skill.