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- Sat Jan 25, 2014 8:24 am
- Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
- Topic: Why Knot?
- Replies: 44
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- Sat Jan 25, 2014 8:14 am
- Forum: Test and Trip Reports: How Did They Work?
- Topic: YKNOT Reporting
- Replies: 9
- Views: 16208
YKNOT Reporting
MAN! After obsessing over this forum all summer and fall I feel like I haven't been back in ages. But now that I'm up at work with some time to waste I figured it's time to go ahead and throw out some shameless self promotion. I AM SO STOKED ON ALL OF MY SKIS!!!!! Seriously, there's nothing more gra...
- Tue Nov 12, 2013 5:44 pm
- Forum: Ski/Snowboard Design and Layup
- Topic: Wood Sidewalls
- Replies: 29
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so wait... some of you guys are skiing on unfinished wood sidewalls without any issues? i did all bamboo sidewalls for my first run and was thinking that I absolutely NEEDED to seal them, ending in me applying epoxy to each set with a paintbrush, which to be honest ended up looking like shit. I'm su...
- Mon Oct 21, 2013 1:55 pm
- Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
- Topic: Why Knot?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 25880
- Sun Oct 20, 2013 7:30 pm
- Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
- Topic: Why Knot?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 25880
i'll have to try out that tape you're talking about. i don't tape any of my veneer joints, i glue them a day or so before the layup. my absolute biggest area for improvement is core alignment, my current method just isn't going to hack it anymore. maybe i'll go to dowel style pegs or something. just...
- Sun Oct 20, 2013 9:56 am
- Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
- Topic: Why Knot?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 25880
+1 on the micropore tape! Guarantees you'll have no slipping or overlap of our tip spacers, and it's thin enough to not leave an imprint in the base or topsheet (I only do it on the bottom). i've been using athletic tape with some dabs of superglue. i should he seen the writing on the wall, when i ...
- Sat Oct 19, 2013 8:17 pm
- Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
- Topic: Why Knot?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 25880
last layup is done. technically my worst pair yet! two of the tipspacers didn't seat all the way and overlapped the core and it appears i had some core shift, won't be able to tell if it cleared the edge til i cut them out, it's too close to tell. ugh, i bit off a lot on this first run. at least if ...
- Sat Oct 19, 2013 6:12 am
- Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
- Topic: Why Knot?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 25880
- Fri Oct 18, 2013 9:27 am
- Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
- Topic: Why Knot?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 25880
two out of the bag yesterday, first was another bamboo park ski, exactly like the first pair. only issue is i forgot my little logo (i hadn't yet put it on my giant layup checklist yet and realized it right before i put on the topsheet). other than that one of my tipspacers swam away a touch but not...
- Wed Oct 16, 2013 7:49 pm
- Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
- Topic: Why Knot?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 25880
Very ambitious indeed! but looks like you're kicking butt! Keep it up, but don't get complacent... some kind of disaster is bound to happen if you let your guard down! The simple mistakes are the worst. damnit i wish i would have read those words earlier! first pair is out of the bag and wouldn't y...
- Tue Oct 15, 2013 7:07 pm
- Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
- Topic: Why Knot?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 25880
well 8 pairs in 10 days was a bit ambitious. now, however, i'm on schedule for 6 pairs in 13 days. i'll start pressing the first pair tomorrow. some process shots: https://scontent-b-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/1379513_766696427693_1560400464_n.jpg bummed i'm gonna have to cover these with carbon ...
- Fri Oct 11, 2013 11:52 am
- Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
- Topic: Why Knot?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 25880
https://scontent-b-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/1381773_765594870223_793455880_n.jpg https://scontent-a-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/1384180_765551746643_422411079_n.jpg so happy i'm done with the MDF cutting portion, the cleanup is always a bitch afterwards. the pow skis will be paulownia w/ ash...
- Tue Oct 08, 2013 8:00 pm
- Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
- Topic: Why Knot?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 25880
- Wed Oct 02, 2013 10:19 am
- Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
- Topic: Why Knot?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 25880
I also use 19 oz triax and no carbon but my cores are somewhere inbetween 13 and 12 mm at the bindings. The stiffest I have ever made where 13,5 and the softest I haver ever made (a touring ski for a friend) where 11,0. The 13,5 are really stiff. 12.4 mm is what we make most skis. Good grip on ice ...
- Tue Oct 01, 2013 6:57 am
- Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
- Topic: Why Knot?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 25880