Hi Yack,
I might be interested in some bases, sidewall material, edges and topsheet too.
What country are you from?

Why not make the hollow mold with the fibreglass and fill it with SAND and close it off with a wooden board of some kind. It's pretty cheap and you can poor out the sand afterwards to use in another mold...

Nice work Buuk! Look pretty impressive.

You have PM.

I like the water test to see if it is properly heat treated... thanks for the tip!

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Skibuilding is at a small pause at the moment as I am writing this from Austria!
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Good point about the lengthwise shifting by the cattrack. This is definately something we need to have a good look at.

How large is your bladder? I think this really defines which option is best.

Hoi Buuk, The reason why we opted for a cat-track is because we are using three small diameter firehoses for pressing 2 skis at the time. because of the small diameter, the bladders do not fully enclose the skis so the cat track ensures an even distribution of the pressure. Also, the flat surface of...

do you mean you have 2 different types of boards or one board with both vertical as horizontal lamination? to make it more clear: Horizontal: http://www.bambusa.nl/web/files/images/galleries/Producten/Verlijmingen/NV%2020mm%20-122%20zijde.jpg Vertical: http://www.bambusa.nl/web/files/images/gallerie...

what kind of bamboo material are you using? There are many different kinds of bamboo boards when looking at how the bamboo fibres are aligned.

Thanks, This is the one that I have, not very expensive but works great. http://www.sportsdirectoryuk.co.uk/product/Rucanor_Balance_Board.aspx There are different ones from other manufacturers too. I used several before while training with physiotherapists as this is not my first knee injury :oops:

Have just started an intensive training scheme (Weight training and cardio) to get my knee up and ready for the next winter. Need to get my left leg in shape after my ACL reconstruction last may. Have hardly been able to do any training the previous two months while doing an internship in madagascar...

That makes me wonder what the difference is for Worldcup race skis... Any chance you can get hold of a pair of those to use your fancy gear on?

Maybe it is a good idea to have a good look at WC race skis in general as they should be completely optimized for ferfect carving arcs...

where does your hose come from endre? what is it made of?

it looks like it also has a swallow tail...
funny, you normally would expect that on a powderski...

That looks sweet!

In the pictures where you can see the difference in tips compared to the other one, yours is way "longer". did you do that on purpose? why?

Keep up the the good photo report, it's very inspiring!

Looks like some stereotypical ego snow!
Pretty jealous... i was in austria in the same week, but couldn't ski because of a knee injury... extremely frustrating!