haha well i would be your first customer but cause i am in aus, i have to wait for your email reply first. please dont sell out. plleeeaassee.

of topsheet that is.

schuss

wow. really nice.

What was the place you were skiing at?

may i ask how durability was?

schuss

haha funny you ask. i actually did a test of exactly that just recently. here are my results on a 1mm thick piece of bulsa, roughly measuing 200mmx40mmx1mm i tested -one piece with one layer of 18oz plain weave fibreglass -one piece with 3 layers of 6oz plain weave fibreglass -one piece with 2 layer...

wow, how is it my heart beat changed when you said clear topsheet?

Do you know how hard that stuff has been to get a hold of??

i will be your first customer.

good work guys

schuss

we decided not to go with a prenaumatic press. its also not exactly a clamp press either. and its not a vacuum press. We needed to use steel girders to prevent bending. and it does involve bolts.. alot of bolts. over 30 bolts... but its been perfect for us. its also heated. so to answer the topic qu...

just up and across. if you have them at 45º thats going to stiffen the ski up torsionally.

SCHUSS

haha thats brilliant.

i can just imagine you walking around the ski racks of the day lodge with your tape measure and a scale.

thanks

schuss

i thought triaxial fibreglass reduces torsional flex.. not increases it, as the added strand is there going across the ski. A plain weave with the strands runing up and down the ski (not diagnally across the ski) would have a reduces affect on torsion, thus it would be MORE torsionally flexible. *tr...

it says in your profile you are an industrial designer. So this sort if information goes hand in hand with that. The link in your profle is a custom ski program, dont spose you design skis for a living then? The information in that database is emmense. Did you 'aquire' all of this by research or did...

wow what an awesom data base. thats really impressive and very useful. pitty i build race skis tho!

really good work

schuss

With the modified pipe bender, does it work with a 1/2 inch pipe bender?

I have gone through almost all possibiblites for bending the edges and its driving me insane! i just want the edge to look pro.

schuss

oh for sure. more is better than not enough.

the figures add up, and i spose you do use alot of epoxy when building skis.

i am just thinking tho 3gallons for 6pairs... thats around 12 litres isnt it? so a litre of epoxy each ski.. i think thats a bit exsessive.. altough i could see it happening.

yeti I ams sure there are cheaper and just as effective options rather than west systems. However having said that.. the stuff has been brilliant. bonds have been perfect. so i dont mind paying that much. hafte... do you really only get 6 pairs of of 3 gallons?! thats alot of resin. i would say out ...

ok well for an average: in Australian dollars for me: $27.5 for the base (2m worth) $27.5 for the topsheet (2m worth $14 for edges $50 on 2mx24cm of tasmanian maple wood $70 on kevlar (2m worth, enough width for a few pairs) $200 on carbon (2m worth, " " ") $20 on glass $7.5 on tip sp...

no doubt this has been covered already. i just couldnt find it. ok so there is: plain weave twill weave mat (chopped strands) biaxial triaxial and some thing called crowfoot????? plain is just 1x1 up and down twill is 2x2 mat just goes everywhere biaxial is +45/-45 triaxial is 0/+45/-45 is this righ...