cool, thanks a lot for sharing !!

the black stuff is some kind of spacer ... the woodcore must have ended earlier. only one pair of the pontoons are mine, I got a fairly good deal on them and the second pair is for a friend of mine. I know, I'm very lucky to be able to use all that equipment ... I guess I'm less a hardcore skibuilde...

maybe this is also interesting to the sb community, I've cut of the stupid tail of my gotamas. (@alex: you can be relieved, although they now, beeing in andermatt without any snow except a meter of light pow, suffer from several coreshots I didn't retire them ... for now, hehe). here are the pics. I...

so, today I glued the strips together ... http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/3905/img3497ba0.jpg http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/3449/img3498wl1.jpg the next steps will now be planing the up and downside of the woodcores, next I'll cut out a negative core profile out of some larger plank with thi...

Ok, but now for my own skis ... first of all I'll introduce the press. To be honest, I'm really glad I can use all this equipment because it makes everything super smooth and easy. I'm working in the carpenter and joiner factory of my father in law. I usually help him out when there is a lot of work...

So, as my project is finally working out, I thought, I'll post my progress here. But to begin, here are two different völkl skis I cut in half to take a quick look inside. This ski is a usual Völkl P40. The woodstrips are 5mm wide. http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/1738/img2470wa1.jpg The second sk...

I rethought about it ... maybe, as salomon is the only manufacturer still really producing foamcore skis, the solution is a cap construction to keep it all together. Propably the core enclosed in a glasfiber tube - torsion box like. combined with a some kind of binding plate to keep the screws from ...

foam is for shaving


sad to see the project didn't work ... maybe a binding plate really is a solution.

the best, most reliable, solution would be in my opinion to build a torsion box ... but I havent figured out how to construct one, or to be more precisely, how to make one that fits into the amateur pressing process I do. However, I've cut one of my old racing slalom völkls (racing lab, wc ski, p30 ...

i heard of this as well and i heard that it worked quite well ... on the grafsnowboards site they use a fridgepump as far as i remember well.

use a vacuum press ... it pressures with about 8 tons if youre pump manages to suck down to 200 milibars, thats much more than any press that usees the hose/hydraulic system will ever be able to do.

this is incredible great !! thanks a lot endre !! would it be too much work for you to post the rest of the skis? i would be very interrested ...

managed to get 30 meters from the Gurit AG in Ittigen, Switzerland. Call them ... they are very cooperative. +41 (0) 31 925 41 12 (Mrs. Grob handels the sales, I have no idea about her english, but her german is perfect ;-) ) Shipping however is quite expensive if you don't have someone to ship to I...

As there are so many mechanical engineers around here I absolutly have to contribute.
I'm from south Germany and currently studiing sociology, politics and international law, hope to work at the UN someday, hopefully as soon as possible.
Hope to finish my first ride soon ...

this topic can be closed ... managed to get base in less than 100 Meters.