Hey guys, so many time without posting here, we were working to much but finaly realise that the problem was that the wood is to soft, so now we are working in a bamboo press machine for get more stiff woodcore. Now we are shaping a prototipe surfboard with our Cnc machine (nice shapebot) Saludos Tato

Hi Brazen, the startups here are good, we win one startup and we founded AWKA Skis this year. Many companies of iphone app and AWKA, one of the few outside of the computer technology. Startup was our best help to start our company. We are pressing at 50psi and 50Cº. We already try sanding the core b...

Yes, fast growing as 7 years. It is a "full-fill core" bamboo. This Saturday we were looking at the broken ski and we take of the whole upper fiberglass effortlessly. It seems that the epoxy does not adhere to the wood core. Too much pressure? maybe this takes out full epoxy from the lamin...

Thanks to all for the help, we are going to try some new things because we think that we have a new wood that seams to be like a "bamboo balsa" only from here in Chile, this let the skis quite lighter, like 20% left that a regular ski, and we want to make the ski as lightest possible. Mayb...

Hey twizzstyle, We are using a weight meter for the epoxy and a driller for mix. Maybe there is some specific characteristic that we have to use for the epoxy?

Hey guys, I have a big delam problem between the wood core and fiberglass, right after to the heel binding. This is a park skis with 180, 110/85/110, bamboo core super light in 3/12/3, one layer of 22oz triax fiberglass on each side of the core and another layer of the same triax for bindings. The t...

Thanks a lot Deep, here in Chile its hard to find suppliers and more difficult find someone with the knowledge about. We are going to try it the Cf this night, only two question, how many layers of CF we need to use? work it with only one layer of cf? and, can we use the clear top sheet to protect t...

Hello deepskis, I´m new posting here in Ski Builders, a lot of years looking everything but recently building skis. I have a delam problem with the graphics and top sheet and I was thinking about replace the graphics with 2 layers of CF bid 5oz, is this enough? If I put only one layer of CF this cou...

Hello chrismp, I'm friend of Jose, we are together building our skis. We notice that the matte paper are not embedded of epoxy, not even the side with out the graphics, is the top sheet what makes that the graphics pull out? can you post us the link of your tests? Have you tried to use one or two la...