Just another 2" day at the Bird skiing with my old roomate (he's the one filming). Caught a bunch of air, had many a pow turn, and didn't ride the tram once. This stuff is just way too much fun. Thank god for night shift.

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Cool vid. Thanks for the link. Sort of some surprising methods they use. Maybe this is how they do more of their prototypes and big skis. I would have thought they stamped out their base material, not finish the sidewalls with a hand router, and not attach the edges with glue before hand. Whatever. ...

From what I've seen in the ski industry as a consumer, the last big lasting innovation was the shaped (parabolic) ski. It revolutionized skiing. Most other innovations fade after a couple years, until a new one comes a long that makes the old one seem ancient... There's a fine line between innovati...

Yikes!!! I got a pack of eight 6' x 4" wide bamboo boards at Bamboo Hardwoods in Seattle for ~$30 (of course there was no shipping). Each board makes a perfect ski core, so I'm at ~$4 per core. You'd still have to laminate a few together for something wide enough for a snowboard, but it's stil...

I just received a bunch of fiberglass from Raka and they sent me different stuff from last time. I didn't notice the difference until I was cutting it to size. The stitching is a bit different and it felt stiffer and heavier than the previous stuff. I weighed out some small sections and the old stuf...

For jig saw blades I use the Bosch T101BF 10TPI bit-metal bit from Home Depot. It's the one that says for "Hardwood". There's a very similar blade they sell called the T101B which is 10tpi as well, but it is garbage. It's cheaper, but not worth it. Even with the better blade, I will still ...

One more. TK's purple bamboo boards.

Check it out: http://www.codaboards.com/topsheets.php

They are $40 each including material. Shipping is priced a bit weird. It's $20 to ship 1 or about $21 to ship 4.

I realize most people are aware of Coda Boards sublimated topsheets, but I still wanted to start a dedicated thread to make it easier for people to search for them. Their service is awesome and deserves some added attention. So far I've placed 3 different orders with them and I received all of them ...

Well I thought I liked soft skis but...........my cores are quite a bit thicker. A few pair of skis last year were around 2-2.5 tip, 10.5-11 waist, 3-3.5mm tail, and everyone thought they were too soft--but me. I've always been a fan of a softer, more forgiving tip and tail, but stiff under foot. Th...

I'm going on swing shift next Monday. 3:00-11:30. Almost perfect hours if you have to work 8+ hours a day. I was the only engineer at our place to volunteer for this shift. I signed up for it through April. I did it last winter as well. I got about 115-125 days in. Almost all of them half days, but ...

I just got 2 boxes of bamboo flooring from Calibamboo.com. I haven't built a pair yet, but I've planed down 7 of the 8 pairs to final size. They are vertically laminated 6' long by 6" wide planks; 8 per box. Two boxes were $240 shipped. The bamboo seems very similar to some Terigren bamboo floo...

Looks like you way over cooked your skis to me. I did this on the first pair I pressed with heat. Mine didn't turn out that bad, but they had huge blisters on them. They were also smoking pretty good when I took them out of the press. I only have heat on the bottom and I had my TC located on the top...

I am not sure what you mean by "bent ski" rocker. I keep thinking of Surface skis but they are the only ones that I see like that. My tip mold has a constant 104 cm radius , my sidecut portion of the ski has a flat mold, and the tail mold radius is 147 cm. I think what you are seeing is t...

Awesome looking skis Dr. D! You will love that tip/tail rise. Looks a lot like mine. They usually have around 75mm of tip rise and 45mm in the tail. I like a constantly rising tip like yours compared to the "bent-ski" rocker that most companies have out there. I have a steel cattrack like ...