Hi, Name's Doug, quite a few of you may know me from the Mountain Creek forums, and here and there.
Snowboard.com is in fact partially responsible for our new company, without you all I would have not met
our other two wonderful co-owners Heidi and Oldskooool Dave.
I just wanted to start this up because we will be building a handful of prototypes in the next few weeks.
All the major equipment has arrived but procuring materials suppliers at the right price who will work with a small company has proven to be difficult.
What we're working on is 08-09 season proto's, shooting to produce about 100-200 of those for fall delivery, while leaking one or two out here and there.
Thanks to many who already know about us for your patience. Hand built USA snowboards take lots of time. I could just as easily go to one of the volume OEM factories still left in usa and have them build our boards for 125 each, but where is the stoke in that? We're doing this because we love snowboarding and we want to share that with all of you in the future.
So far we have designs for a 159 freeride, 162 wide, 155 fs/park, 130 mini, and a 150 womens model. The rollout schedule will probably be in that order, with the later three probably going straight to production. Though i'd like to get the 155 fspark and womens boards going quickly because I want to expand to different sizes. I'm sure you'd all like to see more park and freestyle shapes being on the ice coast.
The major bottleneck holding us back currently is woodcores. Woodcores require a LOT of work, we are leaving that up to a third party, also from USA, who is a fully custom core craftsman. The "new jersey hard core" will not be just a name, and though the cores will be built elsewhere, we will be designing them in conjunction with the core shop. Each model will have a slight variation of combinations of woods. All will be assembled here in nj. Other materials will be dye sublimated graphic topsheets and bases, sintered UHMWPE ptex sidewalls, corona treatment and factory sanding of all plastics to prevent delam, and "carvelar" where applicable. What is "carvelar"? Its just what we call a carbon/kevlar weave: the bullet-stopping strength of kevlar(really called nomex) with the added rigidity and weight savings of carbon-fiber. Nothing top secret, just thought we should give it a nickname.
check the website, though I probably said more here its really basic for now:
www.blaksheepsnowboards.com
and myspace
www.myspace.com/blaksheepsnowboards
Comments, questions, suggestions, whatever, are welcome, and if you see us rockin Blak Sheep on the mountain, come say hi!
Doug
