Can You Really 3D Print a Snowboard? (Kind Of)

Using traditional fabrication techniques the folks at Signal Snowboards have made deck from all variety of mad materials , include glass . But this month they ’re trying out a radically dissimilar manufacturing technique to seeif you really can make a usable snowboardwith a 3D printer .

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give the sizing limitations of 3D printing machine the snowboard they project is really more like a puzzle get together from smaller segment , which is then permanently adhered together using rosin . Unfortunately the flexible nature of the plastic produced by the printer meant the team had to contribute several steel reinforce rail to keep the board inflexible enough to rag . And given the rough finish of most 3D impress objects , the snowboard was n’t the fastest affair to hit the slope . But there ’s certainly potential , peculiarly if Signal Snowboards can detect a happy medium between traditional and more New fabrication proficiency . [ Signal Snowboards ]