would be cool if everyone whom made there own ride would post pics of them ripping, great powder turn shots, been in summer this sure is good eye candey..thanks.

it's certainly not ice at the moment here, having closing day tommorrow at coronet peak, queenstown new zealand. slush is so fun!!!

carbon on most weaves and weights are available from local composite suppliers... check in with the boat building supply chains... I get my carbon from the company that supplies the national americas cup builders crew.

Hello Doug, Hey you should enjoy yourself out there... I'm a new zealander but have spent some time out that way having a german lady, going to be out there by christmas for some shredding so a little late for your trip but I'll tell you what I know. Zugspitze which is germanys tallest mountain will...

thanks black magic,
Any nomex materials you can hook me up with would be great. Cheers

3/16 aramid should be good, here in new zealand you can only get .125 inch (3.2mm) nomex which is used in the boat building industry, to small a cell size for a core. The other problem is that the maximum length is 4 feet so... I really want to do a aramid honeycomb core as well. I contacted an amer...

hi black magic, a full nomex core should come out really interesting, what cell size nomex do you have planed? also four layers of carbon(graphite)? what weight of cloth-fiber orientation are you thiking about?
look forward to seeing your project postings.

cool photos, thanks for the inspiration

Hiya all, just thought I could offer up a question to people, can we make skis-boards with edges not the same as the industry standard??? I have been riding the first few open days at coronet peak ( aka concrete peak) here in new zealand. To say icy would not do the conditions justice, we had 60cm p...

Hey NZ jibber,
where are you located in NZ (I'm in queenstown)
would be cool to meet up if your around this area?

how about end grain glued together drinking straws, too plastic, how about some organic hemp stalks, the strongest natural fiber there is...anyone got some to spear???haha

i recently pressed a small sample of nomex betwwen some carbon I have. It was 5mm thick, and I laminated it with 400gm m2 quadaxal carbon, it still had flex and the hex size was the 3mm size, The honeycomb did not fill with resin as some people have speculated being a problem as I pressed the exess ...

Hi Chubs,
Can you tell us where you are obtaining titanal from?

thanks king of the hill, does anyone have a good link to any online information such as glass vs carbon strengh / stiffness.

anyone?