Making wooden/mdf/ plywood mould is quite big work, and plywood&mdf is quite expensive. I would like to make randonee skies for my self and big mountain skies for my daughter. Both could be app. 180-185 cm and I think I could use same aluminum mould for both. I have vacuum and with it metal moul...

Yep..i can post picture on Monday. I don't know if those can be seen from pictures. I did not notice those before bottom grinding, waves feels with fingers better than see those. I have found a workshop that can make me aluminum mould. I'm wondering what length would be good. I think I will go with ...

Across the skies..app. 5 cm distance between each other.

Thanks..

Today I got the skies from base grinding. There was same waves in the bottom, I don't know why? The shop had only huge automatic machine and he was not able to finish bottoms completely. I need to take the skies to other shop..they have machine but not so much talent. Anyway tomorrow I will go to lo...

If you want to add some Uni directional fibres, but don't want to add an entire layer, I bough a 2m long sheet of Uni directional Carbon, and cut it into strips. Is much better than using Roving. You can selectively select where you want to add some extra strength I don't know about the skies, but ...

I have skies that are about flat, some 2-5 mm tail / tip rocker 140/111/130 R30, lenght 190 cm. With these skies I can ski on egde on hard /soft snow and powder etc. It's also easy to ski short turns. Yes on hard snow race ski are better but these skies are much better in variable conditions. I have...

If I have a aluminium/metal mould for twin tip ski lenght 180 cm, can I make a shorter ski with traditional tail tip if I make a separate tail part and glue it to mould. Use hot glue so that it could be removed? Yes Im using vacuum. Just to have plastic on top side? What could be core thickness for ...

MontuckyMadman wrote: Did you rabbet the core for edge tine?

Do you mean that there is not enoúght space for fibres between core and edge? This came to my mind but as novice I don't know?

What is enought pressure? I could get -0.65 bar?

Here it is ..





What I could copy from Katana is weight, skies are 1950 g each.

vinman wrote:creative vac set up, nice job.

How does it work? It works with pressurized air?

http://abload.de/img/wp_20160127_06_22_07_e0s3c.jpg http://abload.de/img/wp_20160127_06_22_16_78srp.jpg After heating in Sauna, there is 9 kW oven. Temperature is adustable between 40 - 110 deg C. I don't know if after heating is needed or not but atleast with bamboo rods the epoxy seems to be hard...

I don't have much space, so heat box must be easy to disassemble when not needed.

Here is my heating cabinet. Made of insulation wood and duct tape.

This is how it was after vacuum..


side wall

To keep the base & wood core together I use a wood pin glued to base material. Woud it work to make a round pin using waste of bottom material and make a small hole 4-6 mm to base material and to wood core. Repairing of the bottom is so easy that a small hole not a problem to fix. I use double s...