Thanks. The film I was printing on (Graphix) has the same issues as the vinyl. The shiney side had to be abraded with a green scotch pad for it to take a finish. Results were ok, but under a critical eye it's was not acceptable.

Ok thanks. Most of the time the lettering will be black or white so screen printing is the way to go. I'll save leafing for the "special" skis.

Thanks for confirming excessive camber and chatter. I wasn't 100% sure but it seemed plausible that it could be the culprit. I planned on making a new bottom mold with perhaps 5mm. I noticed that FIS racing skis had minimal camber and heavy.

That looks great! I'm assuming the black lettering is from the screening. Gold leaf looks great too. I heard back from the screen printer. They will make a screen print for $50. He also said vinyl die cuts would be a good option. But I've had problems with the poly beading up occasionally on the vin...

No bleed of the sharpie. You want to make sure it's totally dry before coating with epoxy or PU. It's working so far but I'm not settling on it for the long term.

The chatter isn't caused by the hollow tip necessarily. It's caused by the lack of overall damping. I also suspect excessive camber may contribute to chatter. But sounds like you got it under control.

So yesterday I bought some silver to do leafing and I saw a marker for silver touch ups, and I bought that too. Then it dawned on me, just use the marker. The stencil I have has very thin block letters (the font is called Fine Stencil). I ended up using a black Sharpie and it came out just fine. The...

By chatter I mean, during a hard turn does the downhill ski hop or skip across the ice or hard pack instead of holding grip.

Nice carving!

I use a Brothers die cutter. My wife bought it for cutting patterns in cloth. It works well in cutting plastic film, which is what I've been using to make my stencils. Like a mini light weight CNC. Waiting for a local screen printer to get back to me on making a screen print for me. I'm going to try...

Yea, I've been reading up on gold leafing, it adds a touch of class. I've spent a lot of time with stencils and trying to get it just right and it's frustrating. In the video we made I bet we did the stencil shot no less than a half dozen times or more before it came out right.

I thought about screen print. It's re-usable and can capture detail. We have a few local screen print shops I'll hit up. Thanks.

Looking for ideas to apply simple lettering graphics to wood veneer. I've tried stencilling with mixed results, never consistent. Sometimes I get bleed under the stencil sometimes not. I've tried low tack film stencilling too but the results were about the same. I tried creating sticker style as wel...

I've had epoxy nearly start a fire. It started to kick in the cup. I was busy with the layup and starting hearing a crackling noise and smelled something bad. I thought it might have been my electric space heater over heating or something. Then I noticed a wisp of smoke coming from the melting cup o...

PMG very nice! I also have a GS ski in the works for next season with a similar layup using flax/CF. Did you use CF in the full width or just a strip? What did you use for a wood core? I plan on using ash, IPE sidewall. Making a damp ski is important for racing and is probably the holy grail of ski ...