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If you are in Alaska and want to build skis here is a ready to go setup. The press- Steel I beam press 16" wide. MEI dual heat pads. Dual PID heat controller all 220V. Mold set up for 185 skis currently. Aluminum cat track. 8" fire hose with air regulator. Supplies- Epoxy, fiberglass, edge...

Just got my first ipe, or iron wood or Brazilian decking... The local wood store carries it as decking. Super heavy and hard. It glues up very well if you acetone wipe most of the oils out. Getting close to my first press with the stuff and am pretty excited. Thanks for the ipe idea y'all.

I did end up doing this... I used Fedex Kinkos. Printed on their frikin lazer beam printer with whatever mate paper they had. Bonded super well and looks pretty darn good. Some tinny bubbles but almost perfect and zero delam when flashed. Altho it has been a year and they have yet to be skied or eve...

I know you feel you have a ton of work into that core that your probably pretty proud of even with the oops but your better off just trashing that guy and moving on. You could use it but you will not be happy. Besides the base, edges, top sheet, tip fill, vds, epoxy are all the expensive part of the...

They look good. I like the no veneer no sidewall no tip fill look. Probably made the build go pretty quick...

vinman- Speaking of well placed thermocouples where do you place yours? It would be cool to sacrifice a probe and lay it up inside a ski. Get actual temp in the ski. I have one probe on top of the top alum sheet and the same on the bottom. Im wondering now with this last pair if the tips and tails d...

Chrismp- Sorry been out making little people for a while. I used 12oz 45 45 biax top and bottom with some 5.8oz uni over the whole top. 1750g a ski.

I use cambam witch is not my favorite so far. I had been exporting the side profile from Snowcad into my cam software. I then extrude it and re-align. Now i draw the profile in cad. The last core i profiled was cut at 2400 feed rate double flute 19mm bit 7.5mm step over all depth in one pass This on...

Finally got my skis made for the season. I upgraded my heat controller with dual controls. One for top and bottom. I need to do some programming of the bottom as it seems to over shoot by quite a bit. It was about $35 with the SSR. I hope i can get it to perform more like the Auber i have on the top...

Wow they look great for a first ride! I was asking about the base tape because i found out it really does not help. Tried it on my first pair. Took FOREVER to get off. I think most people use nothing at all and there is no more or less epoxy on the bases. I also think the tape overlap causes some fl...

I cant really imagine there is a feed rate too fast for base material.

Looks like you changed the tool diameter from one core to the next?

SWEET!!! Congrats. Dont get too eager and flash them too early. Give that stuff a chance to cure.

What were your graphics printed on and what with? They look great!

It also looks like you used tape on your bases?

Chrismp- I had read on here somewhere about your issues with bonding, i was hoping some one would tell me you were full of it... lol

I will do some tests this week and post the results here. Im using a new epoxy system as well so i probably should test that as well.

Thank!!!

Here is what i want to do... I have Duravision 5050. I would like to get some graphics printed on regular ol printer paper and lay that up under the clear top sheet. After searching some people say printed paper does not bond as well to these clear top sheets? Any hints on this process? I have used ...