absolutely stunning landscape!

sorry, took me a little while... yeh, ok, technically it`s not the bridge, it`s the sledge to slide the router across the whole construction. i totally agree, planers are the way to go. BUT: when it comes to molds planers are pretty useless. i use this construction to "profile" the camber ...

thought i`d share this with you, maybe it helps someone. the first router bridge i built was for ski cores and only measured 30cm or so in width. as i needed some new parts for a wide mold (40cm wide) i had to build a new, wider router bridge. so i came up with a new idea: you need: - 1 piece of ang...

those were aluminium honeycomb, right? i built a skateboard with honeycomb sandwich stuff. it was aramid-honeycomb though... but anyway. the thing with honeycomb is: it`s not made for bending. it`s super stable if you build stiff planks, but as you flex it it gets complicated. in my skateboard the c...

i`m just investigating paulownia as well. it is super light and pretty strong compared to its weight. i haven`t done some laminated tests up to now, just flexed the wood and snapped it into pieces. i was surprised how well it hold up. it nearly hold up as much load as poplar. the fibres of paulownia...

nice press design! looks pretty elegant

always interesting to see your progress AND the airplanes in the background

the rubber sidewalls...i guess sidewalls are too small to be concerned about their weight and weight is not the issue, it`s machining them and getting them into shape. this issue can be solved though, but there are many more to come. even if it`s hard rubber it is still flexible - which resulted in ...

sadly there`s nothing but pure chaos on the inside of the shop ;) the shop is located in an old concrete factory which was shut down about 10 years ago. so it has been left for the past 10 years and looks really cool and rotten - as you said, great for horror movies, foto shootings and such stuff, b...

as there are so many professional looking home-built ski out in this forum recently it was time for me to step up to the next level as well. actually this was planned some time ago as I run out of base material - I was kind of fed up with the endless quest of getting sources for small quantities. ad...

this looks very very interesting. as far as i can see this...thing has something like veneer on top and on the bottom. this could prevent it from getting soaked with too much epoxy. i built skateboards using balsa once and used this very same technique to stop the balsa from soaking up all the epoxy...

the veneer looks awesome!
how did the pau ferro veneer hold up on your first pair? lots of chipping or no deal at all?

yeh, nidecker is using it on one of their high-performance freeride models. if i remember correctly it was 2 years ago when they first used it. tried to get hands on some woodwelded core but neither nidecker nor the guys from the university where they invented it could/wanted to help me.

plan B in case of global warming

those grafics are really nice! keep on the good work!