i think burton used to (or maybe still does) use end grain balsa in some of their cores. not too sure so don't quote me on that.

nice pics. what kind of wood are you using for the core?

nice edit! do those skis get mistaken for fujis?

nice, clean work! i love the use of olive oil.

I was thinking of doing the same thing but never got around to it. It's definitely worth a shot but I can't say for sure whether it will work or not.

snocad should be perfectly fine for designing the ski shape. as for shaping the rails i've come to learn that small inaccuracies aren't noticeable. that's just my thought but i've made some skis with major profiling flaws such as severely skewed profiles and even huge dents and i couldn't tell the d...

not that i know of. not yet. maybe a University of Ski Building in the future? but there is ski college in colorado that has several programs.

no it's not too difficult. i usually start from one end and unroll the fabric smoothing out any wrinkles along the way.

wow, very nice! but hopefully we won't have to deal with all the various insert patterns once everyone goes with the G3 pattern.

supposedly the extra edge helps prevent damage from grinding on rails, concrete, etc. i would try routing out a slot where you want the edge to go and tack the edge in place.

i'm currently out of the inserts but i haven't had much luck finding 1/4-20 screws with the right heads that fit my looks. maybe with some modification of the toe piece there may be a chance that you could get a screw to fit nicely.

i think the effort and time to make a clamp press would be much more than a vacuum press. and with a vacuum press it's more likely to get better results.
vacuum presses don't have to be very expensive either. i just a vacuum pump for $30 on ebay.

can't tell from the pic but do they have regular sidecut in the front and an inverse cut towards the tail? or maybe i'm just seeing things.

nice bump skis

for some reason i really like those bases!

try using a hot glue gun.