When my 10 y.o. says he wants some home built skis, it’s kinda hard to say no. I haven’t built any in years, but gonna make a go of it. He’s probably 80ish pounds and 4’6”. Thinking 135-140mm or so. The question is how to tune the stiffness. I’m leaning towards 9mm and 16oz triax. Unlike with me, wh...

Schweet. Good to know. That helps with my design. I think my initial attempt to use some leftovers as an extra thin core isn't going to happen. Thanks again.

Yo comprendo your layup. What I'm wondering was what the core dimensions were compared to a full FG ski that *was* stiff enough prior to the wood topsheet. If such a thing ever existed, that is. IOW, when you say turned out a little soft with my core profile do you mean you used the same core profil...

MM, did you use the same core to get the slightly floppier skis? That's actually what I'm looking for since my backcountry boots aren't super beefy (Dynafits Zzero4)

I'm going way lighter than you. If you look at the breakdown of triax FG, it's something around 50/50 for what's in the 0deg vs. +/-45 direction. It's a little off from this, but I can't remember which is which or what's the site that actually has it laid out to look it up again and don't have the t...

I've not made a CF ski yet, but I did just get some in the mail last night, so soon (hopefully soon enough to ski 'em once or twice before summer sets in). I will say with FG that using release film for vacuum bagging in place of the top sheet gives a really nice finish (and you don't have the weigh...

Wow, way off topic for here, but I can try to answer. Yes, the part is asymmetric. I don't remember how it goes together without it in front of me, but, as I recall, it doesn't really look like it fits together properly until screwed down. Keep trying! Also, try telemarktips.com if you keep having i...

I've used the yellow tape and the gray tape and actually have an easier time using this black tape, which is about 1/2 as much (well ~same price, but the rolls are twice as long)

http://www.acpsales.com/Black-Sealant-Tape.html

No experience in this area, but I was going to say go with the overlap. Except I'd overlap more like 50% like this (we'll see if this ASCII representation works): _____ _____ _____ _____ ___ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ I would think 12" lengths with only a 1" overlap would still ...

How big is the press? Long enough for skis? If so, got some pictures?

As a 1/2 time tele, 1/2 time alpine skier who hasn't skied *that* many different skis, but has skied the same ski mounted alpine and tele, my opinion is that a ski is a ski. If you like rocker, you should like it regardless of the binding that you have. I know some tele skiers don't like tail rocker...

My guess is that most companies don't actually change "anything" (I use this term..err..loosely) when they make skis longer, they just get stretched out. Sidecut dimensions don't change (e.g. a Mantra is something like 130/95/115 (or whatever) regardless of length -- I could be using a wrong example...

double post!

What the guy from Vectorply said mostly makes sense, but to say torsional loads are exactly 45 degrees is BS. (I know I'm putting words into his mouth...er...keyboard, but I'm just trying to get my point across) In reality, they're going to go all over the place, but "mostly diagonally" or something...

+1 for no top sheet: