nice looking skis! looks like you got the perfect timing, now provide us some early season action pics!
I`m so jealous right now as i just checked some webcams of your resorts...
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- Wed May 27, 2009 10:59 pm
- Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
- Topic: MONKSKI - Made in New Zealand
- Replies: 15
- Views: 13900
- Wed May 27, 2009 10:55 pm
- Forum: Ski/Snowboard Design and Layup
- Topic: 333skis - Guy making skis out of a trailer
- Replies: 49
- Views: 50725
but be careful with plywood. if the several plys/sheets of the plywood are too thick it won`t work. at least that`s what i`ve experience on my skateboards. there is a border at maybe 2mm thickness of a sheet. if the single sheets of the plywood are thicker than 2mm it`s more likely the plywood will ...
- Tue May 26, 2009 11:27 pm
- Forum: Ski/Snowboard Design and Layup
- Topic: 333skis - Guy making skis out of a trailer
- Replies: 49
- Views: 50725
I hear your call, Mmadman! plywood? i checked his site too but somehow i missed the part about plywood... so what`s the question? you`re right, i switched to vertical lamination but did...3 pairs with horizontal lamination. but i did use veneer instead of plywood. hard to say if plywood keeps the ca...
- Fri May 01, 2009 4:17 pm
- Forum: Test and Trip Reports: How Did They Work?
- Topic: Aiguille Du Midi, Face Nord, Eugster Couloir 1st May
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4570
- Thu Apr 30, 2009 5:14 am
- Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
- Topic: Blondie rips
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5745
Re: Blondie rips
your mold is just ingenious! but where can we see the finished board? i somehow didn`t find it on flickr....
- Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:40 pm
- Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
- Topic: summer 08
- Replies: 19
- Views: 16656
- Sun Apr 19, 2009 1:00 pm
- Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
- Topic: Shopvac's Skis
- Replies: 95
- Views: 88811
- Sun Apr 19, 2009 12:57 pm
- Forum: Materials and Supplies
- Topic: materials in new zealand?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6060
if you`re going to be my host for a season i`ll deliver you any materials personally ;) ;) no sorry, no better advice than: try kingswood.they seemed to be pretty cool, at least as i emailed them 2 years ago as i made my trip to NZ. but of course there`s a certain possability that they are not that ...
- Fri Apr 17, 2009 5:53 am
- Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
- Topic: summer 08
- Replies: 19
- Views: 16656
time for a little update as i`ve finished the 3 pairs in the pic below and a 4th pair, not pictured. http://skibuilders.com/cpg/albums/userpics/10013/P1050816k.JPG on the left: mimir. in the middle: alberich. on the right: mimir again. i`ve already written a few words on alberich in the previous pos...
- Tue Apr 14, 2009 3:41 am
- Forum: Materials and Supplies
- Topic: Basalt supplier
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3871
bamboo fibreglass sounds interesting. but the tissue they offer there may not be that ideal for skibuilding as the fibres go in all directions...i guess therefore it could lack of longitudinal stiffness. jep, the attila have basalt on top and i just finished a second pair with basalt. the basalt i`v...
- Mon Apr 13, 2009 1:27 pm
- Forum: Materials and Supplies
- Topic: Basalt supplier
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3871
btw, do you know which type of basalt fiber (type of roving e.g. biax, triax, ud,... and what weight) to use best? it`s pretty easy: use the one you get! no, seriously, there aren`t many types of tissues. some 500g and some 200g tissues. unidirectional is hard to get, at least i didn`t found any by...
- Thu Apr 09, 2009 8:57 am
- Forum: Materials and Supplies
- Topic: bamboo sidewall material
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8896
- Wed Apr 08, 2009 10:28 pm
- Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
- Topic: miserable failure
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6988
- Wed Apr 08, 2009 3:54 am
- Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
- Topic: miserable failure
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6988
miserable failure
here`s the thing. i got abs sidewalls from a friend and thought "hey, let`s try this out! i`ve never been a fan of plastic due to bonding, but it can`t be this bad, right?!" and so i did...just to find my initial hate of plastic confirmed ;) after 2 days of glueing cores and sidewalls the ...
- Wed Apr 08, 2009 2:59 am
- Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
- Topic: ON3P Skis
- Replies: 167
- Views: 160740