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How to Make a Mini Quarter Pipe

Fingerboards allow an owner to replicate the fun of riding a skateboard in a miniature setting. With two fingers placed on the board like the legs of a rider, a finger is "skated" along miniature street parks and half pipe ramps that are scaled to match the miniature board. Quarter pipe ramps are a common element in skate parks, often with multiple quarter pipes in each park. Fingerboard quarter pipes are much easier to make than their full-size counterparts, and cost substantially less as well.

Things You'll Need

Card stock
Drafting compass
Ruler
Scissors
Glue
Coat hanger
Wire cutters

Instructions

- 1
  Draw a quarter-circle arc with a 6-inch radius on the card stock using the compass and a pencil.
- 2
  Draw a 3-inch line in pencil extending from one end of the arc so that the line does not extend over the arc and is perpendicular to the direction of the arc at the point it is drawn. Use the ruler as a guide; this is the top of the ramp.
- 3
  Draw a 6-inch line perpendicular to the first line, beginning where the first line ends. This line should run next to the curved arc.
- 4
  Draw a pencil line from the end of the second line to the end of the arc that you did not draw the first line extending from. This will complete your side view ramp shape, with a 6-inch-tall curved section to ride up and a 3-inch-long flat section at the top.
- 5
  Cut out the card stock ramp with scissors.
- 6
  Trace the side view onto the card stock twice and cut out both traced shapes, so you have three total ramp shapes.
- 7
  Draw a rectangle as wide as your desired ramp and as long as the curved face of the side pieces.
- 8
  Draw two rectangles as long as your desired ramp width, and as wide as you want the section at the top of the ramp to extend back from the ramp. Cut out all three rectangles drawn with scissors.
- 9
  Place the three ramp shapes atop one of the rectangles that has the dimensions of the top section of the ramp, with the back edges of the ramp shapes aligned with one ramp-width side of the rectangle. Position one ramp at either side of the rectangle and the third centered across its width and secure with glue. This serves as a brace at the bottom of the ramp.
- 10
  Apply glue to the slopes of the ramp pieces and press the rectangle that matches the slope down along the slopes. This is the curve of the ramp.
- 11
  Cut a piece of wire hanger as wide as the ramp using the wire cutters.
- 12
  Glue the cut wire to the top of the ramp to serve as coping, the metal bar at the top of the curve in a quarter pipe which riders slide their boards along to perform grinding tricks.
- 13
  Glue the remaining rectangle to the top of the side view pieces to serve as the top of the ramp.

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