Hi Akiwi,

hopefully soon! I am in Garmisch from 16th - 19th on skiing instructor exams. If you happen to be on the mountain give me a call. Will ride these skis, its my skiing instructors model - a ski for everything.

I used thumb tacks to position the core again, no dimples at all.

To be honest, I have no idea what wood it is :) A friend of mine used to build skis as well when we started 4 years ago but he soon stopped. Now I use the leftovers, e.g. this veneer.

The finish is a normal PU finish, normally used or boats.

Lets see if it performs as it should! 185cm long, 20,5m radius, full camber, hollow tip, 1500g per ski, 70mm underfoot. 450g/m² carbon triax + 120g/m² flax uni to dampen. lets hope it damps as well as everyone says. Self-routed ski ends made from ABS. http://www.spame.de/skibau/rennski02.jpg http:...

Hi, some photos always help :) The finished ski: on one the protection film is already removed, colors are nice and bright. On the other one you can see the topsheet shift in the middle... looks a bit strange. http://www.spame.de/skibau/matterhorn09.JPG Here you can see how thin the rest of the side...

Hi satch, no problem, I will answer gladly (lets be honest, if you post something in the journal section and no one is interested - that sucks!) I skipped the semi-cap design for one simple reason (and I will soon know if the cap really is the reason for it): When getting colder the cap skis start t...

Happened to two of my buddies that they mixed hardener GL2 with hardener L instead of resin L, which sucks about equally :) Ouch! Could happen here too, have these 2 hardeners here as well. Though I replace L with GL1. @satch: I think of how the "perfect" ski would be built like in my opi...

First impression is really really good :) 2 little issues I saw on first glance which don't really bother me: 1) One of my base-in-place-keepers moved a little little bit under the edge and lifted it by maybe 0,2mm -> will be gone after the base grind, if not its the outer side of the ski :) 2)I use...

Hi, unfortunately photos don't really show it, at least not in my bad workshop light. But yes, I changed my usual method of just "bending" the outer stringers along the sidecut. Now I use the planer jig to have all stringers in the same shape, reproducing the sidecut when glued together. I...

Hi, some fotos of the skis I put into the press today - hope they come out fine, if they do this will be my future way of building. Highlights: - self-routed ski ends made from ABS - hollow tip - thin Sidewalls, only 2.5mm thick - each stringer of the wood core was routed to match the sidecut: Every...

Hi,

some time ago I posted a method of creating accurate templates without CNC. Have a look in the Journal section, the topic is called "Detailed documentation of my next build"

Cheers
Philipp

Hi, I live in Sonthofen. Maybe we can have a skibuilder gettogether sometime if you like, e.g. in Balderschwang

Hi Jonsn, where in Bregenzerwald are you located?

Nice looking skis! Built GS skis as well and waiting to test them! IMO glass fibre is a bit too soft for a GS ski where egde grip is the main goal. Or you'd have to use a lot of glass, e.g. 1050g/m² triax. In mine, I used 450g/m² carbon and in addition 120g/m² uni flax to dampen the ski. Will tel...

Hi Reto,

I see you thought about symetry a lot :) Happy Skibuilding!

Hi, nice to see you work, you obviously like to do things precice :) How symmetric are the skis? In a freeride like yours it won't matter much but I can think of 3 issues that can cause your skis to end up unsymmetric: 1) The template: You glued a print on the wood, right? if that print isn't 100,00...