Hi, Wow you have kept pretty busy and nice work! It will be very nice to make one for myself in the future, it will speed things up and make life so much easier. Although it would have been very useful to make a hard wood tip piece I've made as an experiment. The renewable tail piece works well, but...

Hello Skiingfreak, Yes, we've bent the mesonite the same way using the same jig as prebending the cores, which is what I think you've seen. I have a few pictures, of the jig and with the mesonite in it, but it's the same as with a ski core in it. Just make sure the jig is wide enough for the mesonit...

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I remember the last few pairs we used a black re-usable sticky strip to seal the bag, which was one of our Swedish friend's idea. I don't know what it's called but it was really effective and like plastic clay.

I think I have the set up in the flicker pictures. If not I can dig one out. You need to make sure you have the tape tight when applying it onto the plastic, to help it from wrinkling, creating a source of leakage. We've let it run overnight. The hand made pressure gage will control it, so you can s...

You can always find out by making a little test panel.

You know where there's one now ;) But this was more because nothing else was open yet at the time, and just wanted to check out the condition on the Mer de Glace where you normally end up and you climb 'up' the ladders mainly at the end of the season when the snow no longer reaches the gondola, or o...

Today I've compared the Atomic Sweet Daddy 163cm and this wood palate ski out of curiosity. Instead of the new creation being 160cm as intended, it was actually exactly the same length and running length as the Atomic Sweet Daddy (the orange generation), BUT the boot center is 2.5cm set back on the ...

Gougouneux: Hi. Wow that's unfortunate with the corroded blades. The planer we used Idirs bought managed to plane a lot and still going. Yes we did have the problem of it not planing flat. As Idris described, it is easy to fix. Luckily it's built in a simple way, to take apart and put it back togeth...

I've made two skis, one with about 100 days on it sking it back country in Chamonix and the other one much less. I don't have a top sheet, just glass and 3 layers of all weather outdoor vanish (not sure which brand is good int he US yet). I never had delam problems myself. Just bevel the sides well,...

Nice one, I'm curious to try sometime once I've made a few more to spare in the future. I wonder if it can get clogged up sometimes in certain snow conditions. I imagine there is an optimum condition like you mentioned where it performs best. Perhaps one just need to try different patterns and so on...

Sounds like there are good recommendations on the kind of router to get. We often hear and learn from experience 'you get what you pay for'. Sometimes you can get the hole body for a reasonable price and pay more for the router bit/blades etc. as they don't tend to come with great ones to begin with...

If there is a place where you can test ride twin tip skis I suggest doing that, so you know what kind of ski/snowboard shape and length you like for the kind of skiing you want to do. As mentioned, just keep in mind the running length (the portion that has contact with the ground) will be shorter on...

Hello spennycraig, In the simple vacuum bag press we made two pairs of skis using the same bag. We had pretty strong plastic this time. Last season we made 3 pairs out of one bag but increasing tape patches, and kept spending a lot of time trying to find the leaks. It is probably best to use/make a ...

I've posted pictures of using a vacuum bag and the fridge motor set up that myself and friends who came up with it used. This year's set up is a little beefier but the same logistic. It works great. The old fridge motor is definitely more quiet, and had it on over night during the first trial last y...