I live in the North East (southern Quebec to be a little more accurate) and we have been having an incredible season so far. I bought a Friday pass at our local ski area and that has allowed me to really put my skis through the paces and so I have found some issues. The last pair of skis I made (181...

Looking good! For the epoxy heating up, this can also happen if you mix too large of a batch and leave it for too long. To mitigate this, I usually prepare three cups of resin without hardener and add the required hardener and mix as I wet out the layers. Thanks! My local ski shop is definitely imp...

While the recent talk has been about using flax and where to source it in NA I thought I might update this thread with my latest build. I have had a chance to ski my previous pair (see above, the ones with the inlay lightening bolt) and while they look very nice they did not turn out as well as I ha...

Update on the last pair of skis that I made in the spring. They were made more for groomers and side country than backcountry, they have a shorter effective edge and an early rise tip and tail. The local ski shop that takes care of all post press tuning and grinding says these are my best pair yet.....

Hi, some things come to my mind regarding the weight: I don't think your skis are heavy regarding their surface area. if you want to use it as touring skis, then yes, they are a bit heavy. You could try to add some lighter wood (e.g. paulownia) to your wood mix. Poplar soaks liquids quite well. In ...

I have my 8th pair of skis done. This past winter in the North East was tough, the backcountry wasn't in but thanks to some free passes I was able to enjoy 3 days of skiing at Smugglers Notch with my normal backcountry partners. Skiing lifts for the first time in a long time exposed the problems wit...

I have a feeling that the veneers we use (or at least the ones I use) are way too thin for this type of treatment. I suspect that even the paper backed types would also be too thin, and this is from experience having sanded through the veneer on a woodworking project several years ago. If you do att...

Just use 3m spray adhesive about 10 cm long under the waist of each base and stick it to the metal sheet that sits on top of your wood mold. They’ll pop right off after pressing - use a good mold release. Any adhesive grinds right off in the first pass. I struggled with the same issue! Hmm, that is...

I took my latest pair of skis out to the Canadian Rockies for a week long ski trip. My ski partner and I spent 3 days a sled accessible cabin south of Golden BC where we found powder every day. We then headed up into Rogers Pass to ski the Youngs Traverse and 7 steps of Paradise followed that the ne...

I extend my core into the early rise tip, they are about 2mm thick so had trouble getting them be flat in the mold. I have found that bending the tips and tails of the core using a heat gun allows me to get the cores into an early rise shape before I put them into the molds. It works very well, you ...

Hi FredK, Well, the heat blanket that I bought did not come with plugs, so before I wired them up I drilled holes in the table the exact diameter of the cables and simply passed them through. I then used silicone to fill in any gaps from both sides. I have pressed 5 pairs of skis with this setup and...

After a 2 year gap I am making skis again. The first three pairs that I made on my new set up all had some issues but for the most part ski well and served as great learning opportunities. The first pair that I made I am still skiing on and they performed very well in the spring corn last May while ...

Hi Sergi, Really sorry for the late response, I will blame the pandemic and the fact that once I built the last pair of skis I needed a year to ski on them before building more pairs. So, adding heat in the press was pretty easy. I just drilled a hole in the table in front of the tip mold and passed...

Made my final pair of skis for this season over the weekend. This time a pair of powder skis with dimensions 140/109/123 over all length of 183cm. After the base/edge gaps from the last pair I was a little nervous about how these were going to turn out but after reading one of Vinman's posts about h...

I would use a thin epoxy and a small syringe to fill in those gaps. Thanks for the confirmation. I have ordered some syringes and I am looking up how to thin my Entropy epoxy (several drops of acetone seems to be the answer) . I will probably attempt this over the weekend assuming my package arrive...