Snowboard Box Materials

If you don't want to go through the expense of buying a snowboard box, you can choose to make your own. But what snowboard box materials should you choose? You can probably find snowboard box plans at a professionnel snowboard forum, but below are some suggestions for snowboarding box materials.

Many people would opt for stainless steel as their snowboard box material of choice.  It's not only strong but it wears well. The downside is that stainless steel is a hard material to work with. Stainless steel can also be expensive.

A second choice of snowboard box materials is to find some old catering tables and cut them up to use as your box material. It has the benefit of being cheap. You just have to find the tables.

Foamalux is a strong, UV stable material that can be used to build a snowboard box. It's also easy for machining. Like stainless steel, it also is expensive - but if you have the funds, it's a good choice.

Another suggested snowboard box material is P-tex. It's stronger than most woods and will give you a great slide. You should be able to find it at someplace like Home Depot. For better performance and an even better glide, look for the 4001 Grade P-tex base material.

Other Snowboard Box Material Choices

Some people even suggest using storm drains for snowboard box materials, especially the black drains that are so commonly seen around the side of roads and which are usually found being used as park features in North America, and another source for snowboard box materials would be trying construction site as well as ice hockey and skating rings because there are usually sheets lying about that can do the trick for you.

Also, at the ice skating ring, there are many board and plexi materials that have to be replaced periodically that can be used as snowboard box materials. Just become friendly with the people that work around these places, and you shouldn't have much difficulty in getting these materials without even having to pay for them.

It is even possible to use wood for snowboard box materials along with polyethylene sheet to cover it up with, though the polyethylene sheets are a bit expensive as compared with the wood, and then all you need is the right measurements and having a sheet that is thick enough so that it can be drilled through without ending up splitting it. In the end, the sheet can be drilled to make anything which makes it quite useful as well.

A last option open to you is to try and make a fiberglass snowboard box that is contoured just like a snowboard's shape that will open on the hinges with an internal height of five inches that will easily house a snowboard, though you can increase the height if you are thinking of putting in more than one snowboard and for storing anywhere from three to four boards you may need to have an internal height of six to twelve inches.

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