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by WhitePine
Tue Nov 29, 2011 11:55 am
Forum: Test and Trip Reports: How Did They Work?
Topic: diy snowsurf splitboard
Replies: 5
Views: 9111

That was so awesome. Great camera work and editing too.
by WhitePine
Mon Nov 28, 2011 11:48 am
Forum: Aprés Ski Building
Topic: Music to build skis by ...
Replies: 18
Views: 10350

Gotta have music on while in the garage. Also, it takes the mind off how piss cold it is out there. Usually I've got something similar to the following on: Mars Volta, Allman Brothers, Pink Floyd, Phish, MGMT, Gov't Mule, Daft Punk, the Format, Widespread Panic. Pretty much anything progressive, blu...
by WhitePine
Mon Nov 14, 2011 10:04 pm
Forum: Equipment and Tools (e.g., ski press, core profiler, etc)
Topic: Where to buy steel edge?
Replies: 13
Views: 11136

Cool. Looks like the keel shaped nose of my O-sin 4807.
by WhitePine
Mon Nov 14, 2011 10:01 pm
Forum: Ski/Snowboard Design and Layup
Topic: Prototyping aka ghetto layups
Replies: 20
Views: 7777

I'm low buget. Capped rails give more protection and a nice look. Hoping to lay up a late season board this week. My protos have no ptex or edges. They work great till you hammer a rock. Easy to fix though. Really? No base? How is the glide? Does it hold wax well? I'm interested in going as light a...
by WhitePine
Mon Nov 14, 2011 9:51 pm
Forum: Ski/Snowboard Design and Layup
Topic: How do YOU guys measure ski/snowboard length?
Replies: 10
Views: 11406

Thanks everyone for the input. I'm glad I posed the question. I was doing all the extra tweaks to my solidworks model in order to make the tip-to-tail length (After pressing) equate to the desired ski length. Now knowing that the skis/boards I'm used to were usually designed using material length I'...
by WhitePine
Fri Nov 11, 2011 9:09 pm
Forum: Ski/Snowboard Design and Layup
Topic: How do YOU guys measure ski/snowboard length?
Replies: 10
Views: 11406

Where did they make the BH's? china? if your not part of the solution you are part of the problem. Trade those suckers in for a real ski. You're right. China. I ordered them thinking they were made in Salt Lake because I know they have a factory here. Later I went and toured it. Its a small operati...
by WhitePine
Fri Nov 11, 2011 3:11 pm
Forum: Ski/Snowboard Design and Layup
Topic: How do YOU guys measure ski/snowboard length?
Replies: 10
Views: 11406

How do YOU guys measure ski/snowboard length?

So I had a revelation today. I realized with the birth of my child things have ground to a halt, or close to it. I'm not going to have any prototypes built until next spring at the earliest. So I decided I'd buy a pair of Bluehouse Maestros 189 cm. When I got them home I saw that they are actually a...
by WhitePine
Thu Nov 03, 2011 8:08 pm
Forum: Yard Sale (non commercial)
Topic: Really freakin' need hose!
Replies: 5
Views: 3567

How much do you need and what size?
by WhitePine
Thu Oct 06, 2011 11:07 am
Forum: Equipment and Tools (e.g., ski press, core profiler, etc)
Topic: vac vs shop-vac
Replies: 18
Views: 11164

This is really a fluid dynamics problem. Anytime you have a bottleneck or flow constriction like where the vacuum hose connects to the table you will have a pressure drop. Especially if there is a long channel after the bottleneck. This means you'll have little suction at the ends of the channels (e...
by WhitePine
Tue Oct 04, 2011 10:40 am
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: Happy Monkey's process
Replies: 72
Views: 83200

Excellent work. This stuff is so helpful.
by WhitePine
Wed Sep 28, 2011 10:51 am
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: Third board almost done
Replies: 37
Views: 22788

Sweet. Did you do an inside edge on this thing? Wood inner sidewalls?
by WhitePine
Fri Sep 23, 2011 6:25 pm
Forum: Equipment and Tools (e.g., ski press, core profiler, etc)
Topic: cheap molds / prototyping
Replies: 11
Views: 5970

Prospect - out of curiousity what pressures do longboarders press at?
by WhitePine
Wed Sep 21, 2011 9:39 pm
Forum: Equipment and Tools (e.g., ski press, core profiler, etc)
Topic: cheap molds / prototyping
Replies: 11
Views: 5970

Sam. Where did you find your Puck board? I see there are lots of hockey stores online that sell it but local is always better. Puck board is just a fancy way of saying HDPE right. Or is there some extra additive that makes it slippery?
by WhitePine
Wed Sep 21, 2011 2:43 pm
Forum: Equipment and Tools (e.g., ski press, core profiler, etc)
Topic: cheap molds / prototyping
Replies: 11
Views: 5970

Check out this thread. http://www.skibuilders.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1307 It looks like people have had success with Doug Fir, plywood, 2x4's, etc. It may be less precise due to the grain structure. The variable wood grain may cause slight deviations due to heating and humidity but people seem t...
by WhitePine
Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:29 am
Forum: Materials and Supplies
Topic: crowns closeouts
Replies: 22
Views: 9882

I doubt that you'll ever notice a few thousandths of an inch. And like OnDeck said, after a base grind all will be well. What I'm curious about is why there is no product listed in Crown's catalog for sidewall and topsheet. The only category that has product listed is the closeout - recreational gro...