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by Buttepacker
Sat Jun 02, 2012 10:54 am
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: Epic Planks Skis
Replies: 40
Views: 45058

skidesmond wrote:Great videos! You guys seem to be doing everything right.
Thanks!
by Buttepacker
Sat Jun 02, 2012 10:53 am
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: Epic Planks Skis
Replies: 40
Views: 45058

powbrewer wrote:Thanks! We had uneven pressure, with too much pressure at the tips/tails of the Vaporizers.
.... which squeezed out too much resin. The glass had been properly wetted but ended up too dry because of the issue. D'oh.
by Buttepacker
Fri Jun 01, 2012 6:33 am
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: Epic Planks Skis
Replies: 40
Views: 45058

One last quick post to bring us up to present day, and then pretty soon we’re going to start posting about the move into our new manufacturing facility in Grand Rapids, which we are stoked about. This last 11-12 season was the first year we sold our Vaporizer model, which is a true symmetrical twin,...
by Buttepacker
Thu May 10, 2012 5:13 pm
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: Epic Planks Skis
Replies: 40
Views: 45058

Wow great story! Good luck with the business. Selling close to 30 skis your first year is pretty good. Thanks! Yeah, we are definitely excited about everything so far. Last winter sucked of course... seems everyone was bumming about the crappy winter, and everyone had slow sales, including the big ...
by Buttepacker
Thu May 10, 2012 1:48 pm
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: Epic Planks Skis
Replies: 40
Views: 45058

Hey Brian, hope to see you guys next winter. Seeing your website and pics is inspiring me to re-double my efforts! I've been designing and building some new prototypes, can't wait for next winter!!! Nice man! We're really stoked about our new shop (pics coming of that soon) and our greatly increase...
by Buttepacker
Thu May 10, 2012 1:41 pm
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: Epic Planks Skis
Replies: 40
Views: 45058

Building on Bill's first post... we got back from our BC test fest in March 2010 absolutely stoked on the Floaters. The skis ripped in deep snow (absolutely, most definitely the biggest permagrin in my life, to date), and we had quite a few guys saying they would be interested in buying a pair if th...
by Buttepacker
Wed May 09, 2012 3:06 pm
Forum: Ski/Snowboard Design and Layup
Topic: Article on wood bonding properties
Replies: 4
Views: 3429

That's a good read, thanks for the link.
by Buttepacker
Wed May 09, 2012 2:56 pm
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: Ski building pics
Replies: 178
Views: 125689

Nice builds on all of these man! Cool stuff.
by Buttepacker
Wed May 09, 2012 4:16 am
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: Epic Planks Skis
Replies: 40
Views: 45058

(dummy post to get me up to 2 posts so I can post URLs...)

Hmm.... still no go.... follow up to Bill's post coming soon.
by Buttepacker
Wed May 09, 2012 4:14 am
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: Epic Planks Skis
Replies: 40
Views: 45058

It really looks like you guys have got it going on, great looking skis. I got to see most of your line at the MRA show at Boyne mt. I was the guy on the blue home built Vandalays. It was good to meet you and I wish you the best of luck! Next time you come up to Boyne let me know it would be great t...