Roarockit Blog

What can I say. This guy makes great boards! If you are in the UK or anywhere in fact and want a SWEET custom build, look no further, Munchh is the man.

He has just begun to use our TAP kit to make decks. Here is his first ride using the Roarockit build.

FIRST RIDE

This testimonial says it all:

“Anyone with the smallest amount of woodworking knowledge should give the skateboard kit a go, i’m making better decks than ever since i did, it really is the best money i’ve spent this year.”

Steve, ‘Munchh boards’ England.

MUNCHH

MUNCHH WEBSITE

Have a look at the wake board that James Cookson made using our Thin Air Press system. James lives in Thailand. This is almost half way around the world from us here in Toronto. The deck looks great.
Thailand

We have a couple of new products coming online that some of you may be interested in.

Above is a Mini TAP kit for teachers wanting to do in-class projects without the expense of buying a large electric vacuum system. The kit is sold as a 6 or 12 pack of 12.75″ x 13″ TAP bags with 2 pumps, a 12′ length of breather mesh and a 50′ roll of sealing tape. The kits are designed for repeated use and are great for cost conscious material budgets due to the small format of the TAP bags.

Check out what Rockler has to say about the Thin Air Press.

This article is great. lots of handy ideas about the Thin Air Press for different types of projects.
TIPS ON USING THE THIN AIR PRESS

There is a wonderful article about vacuum veneering on their site. A must read article for anyone interested veneering and laminating.
VACUUM VENEERING INTRO

This is their newsletter highlighting our TAP system.
ROCKLER TAP AD

We have been invited to show off our kits at the Lee Valley Tools booth at the Home Workshop Show in Toronto.
Here are the dates of the show.

Toronto Congress Centre, 650 Dixon Rd., Toronto

Dates & Times:
March 3 10 a.m. – 9 p.m.
March 4 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
March 5 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Canadian Workshop Show

I will be showing examples of the many uses for our Thin Air Press kits.
Come and check us out in person.

Check out the December and January 2005/6 issues of this great magazine. Roarockit Thin Air Press is in both issues. The December issue describes a laminating project that uses our kit to make cool looking curtain rods. The January magazine describes the kit in more detail.
Thanks Woodworking For Women Magazine for your great support.
WOODWORKING FOR WOMEN

I am not against websites or magazines posting reviews as long as they have an objective and unbiased opinion. JoeWoodworker.com is a commercial site that sells vacuum veneering products and is in direct competition with our patent-pending Thin Air Press system.

For over a year now, Joe Gorelski (Joe Woodworker himself) has posted a review about our Thin Air Press kit. Recently he added one individual’s response, which also happened to share his negative viewpoint.

As the manufacturer of an innovative product that simplifies, demystifies and makes the process of vacuum veneering affordable for woodworkers I am disappointed at Joe Woodworker. There is room for everyone in the industry and I see no need to write misleading statements about a competitor’s product. C’mon Joe! it doesn’t take 400 pumps to evacuate the air from one of our TAP bags.

I am posting this because there is no access to a forum or blog area on the Joewoodworker.com site where unbiased responses to Joe’s personal review or his selected postings can be aired without editorial control.

Feel free to post, good or bad, your comments about our kit here.

There are many quality publications and online websites that have done unbiased reviews about our product. These include:

American Woodworker February 2006
Women for Woodworking March 2006
Fine Woodworking Magazine August 2005
Woodcraft Magazine January 2006, January 2005
Silverfishlongboarding Consortium Review
Hugh R Skateboarding

ONLINE

PRINTED MAGAZINES

Ted Hunter

Doug Stowe writes a wonderful 5 page article about the Thin Air Press kit and how to use it to build a veneered box. Check it out in Woodcraft Magazine.
It’s on the newstands now or at:
WOODCRAFT MAGAZINE

Lee Valley Tools invited us to show off our Thin Air Press system at this past weekend’s Toronto Woodworking Show. The event was highly successful for us mostly due to the Lee Valley staff. They set us up in the booth’s prime spot and let us talk, not only about our Thin Air Press kits but also about deckmaking and teaching skateboard making. Norah, Mark and I talked with hundreds, if not thousands of people about vacuum veneering and how easy it is to get into it. We attracted a lot of attention with my sculpture of 8 longboard kits made to look like a flower.
Thanks Lee Valley Tools for this great opportunity to show off our stuff!
Ted
Trade Show

OK this is the ultimate board building class so far.
101

Here are some pics of decks that I have built using our pintail deck kit. With a little modification these decks stand out wherever I show them.
Nine Decks

We have 60 sheets of 22″ x 50 1/2″ , 1/16 Canadian Hard Maple which is an ideal size for Kite boards. The veneer is long grain only. This material is knot and blemish free and is all face grade stock. If you are interested in purchasing some of this give Norah an email norah@roarockit.com
Let her know your location for shipping and how much veneer you are looking for.
We will post prices on our website soon for this stock.

Norah and I will be at the Lee Valley Tool booth at the Toronto Woodworking show demonstrating our Thin Air Press kits. If you are going to the show come buy and check us out.

Toronto Woodworking Show

Mike Wenzloff will be at the Woodworking Shows stop in Portland on Friday October 21st to Sunday the 23rd. The location site is The Portland Metropolitain Expo Center.
Mike will be demonstrating Thin Air Press kits at the Rockler booth along with making a skateboard deck each day of the show. Check it out if you live in the area.
Woodworkers Shows

Check out these great decks that Mike has been building using our TAP process.
Mikes Decks

Here is an article about Roarockit written in the local Maui paper.
Maui News

We are in this months Fine Woodworking magazine. Pick one up at the newstand and check us out.

Fine Woodworking

We just got wind of this….We are on the cover of the Rockler Summer Catalog. They are also offering a deck making course in Minnetonka this weekend. Stoked! to say the least…

Rockler

This is a new veneer process, created by Reholz that lets you laminate complex 3D shapes from veneer.

Reholz

Some of my and Scot Laughton’s students work. This is a great piece done as a group project.
Jimi Jang, Annie Speer and Justyna Werbel

Talk about bending wood. Coolest laces in town from an artist friend named Eric. He is fanatical about running shoes. I will post more of his work here in the future.