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[Benny]

Camping down south last week at a beach, couldn't help myself.  Had to take photos of what someone left half-burnt in a fire pit. 

I know its a rocker table.  Or a press.  Or both.  But for what?  Too much for a skim.  It was maybe 4.5' long... paipo?  Weird kneeboard?  Something for sand or snow?

And what was pressed together in it - thin plies of wood, wood & foam, balsa & linoleum...?

I love mysteries.  There's something here in the simplicity from which I think we can learn.  Compsand application, with no vac, no weight, no electricity?

And why did they take it to the beach & try to burn the evidence?   

[afoaf]

old ramp parts...

[vpravada]

could be a wheel chair ramp

[Dave_D]

Benny,

Could it have been for a surfboard style kiteboard?  Maybe they had some thin sheets of foam and laminated them to that rocker.  I used to make some tables like that for kiteboards but used vacuum for the deck.  Maybe once they made whatever it was they pitched the form due to lack of space. 

Dave_D

[Benny]

Kiteboard might make sense.  Definitely not symmetrical. 

Its not a ramp, the pieces are just sitting in the wrong order.  It looks like someone cut their rocker profile on 3 pieces of 2x10 lumber, then attached plywood to the cut edges of both sets of pieces.  Whatever was put between the plywood sheets, then, could be clamped with the 2x lumber acting as strongbacks.