Cornice skis... uhhh because the lady thinks i need a name for these shenanigans. so there. taken yet?
What was i thinking?!!!!
I hope i can add something to the forum as it has been crucial so far. The workmanship and dedication that some folks put into this hobby, business, whatever amazes the hell out of me the more i read and i can only hope to come anywhere near duplicating it.
The goal is to build skis! Still no skis at this point but i am learning wood working and ski tooling building. They should rename this site skitoolers not skibuilders. When do i get to build skis already?
I started this madness January 2012. No time for skibuilding this summer but i just started up again last week. Muhaha sick days... Maybe this winter will suck but in Anchorage, Alaska the winters really never suck.
I dont really know where this is all going. I have yet to press a ski. Will post some pictures soon.
hehe.... another one got sucked in. This is like a big therapy group, we're here for ya. But honestly good luck, looking forward to seeing your progress. Everything you need to know is here, some where.
And you're absolutely right, probably 50% of the time is spent just building tooling, gathering materials, and planning things. 5% is spent doing the layup. 35% is spent fixing your mistakes, questioning why you got into this, gasping at the amount of money you've spent, and crying in the corner.
hey i Lived in anchorage for the past 15 years i just moved to reno but if you want i may know some people that would be happy to help you out for your first pair.
twizzstyle wrote:And you're absolutely right, probably 50% of the time is spent just building tooling, gathering materials, and planning things. 5% is spent doing the layup. 35% is spent fixing your mistakes, questioning why you got into this, gasping at the amount of money you've spent, and crying in the corner.
... and then you still have 10% for reading the skibuilders forum. :-)
ACE- Are there others building skis in the area? Its too late for help now they should have talked me out of it in about January when i started. MUHAHA
Will post pictures as soon as the admin no longer thinks im an spamer.
ACE- Are there others building skis in the area? Its too late for help now they should have talked me out of it in about January when i started. MUHAHA
Will post pictures as soon as the admin no longer thinks im an spamer.
oh thought this was a new post my bad but yes i know a few send me a pm if your interested
skibuilding is like brewing beer.
Cleanliness is close to godliness and 90% is prep.
Actually assembling the ski and pressing it is drinking time for fun and enjoyment.
Icing on the cake basically.
To start i had to buy wood working tools. I did not even have tools to build a bench. Wow table saws, routers, and planers are dangerous. If i can get through the first pair of skis with all my fingers i will be amazed. Building cores seamed like the eas
Lowes was a convenient place to buy Poplar but expensive. I also had to visit the two stores and sift through everything to find some decent ski lumber.
I only had a few pipe clamps and a load of quick clamps. I have since purchased more of the pipe clamps. The pipes keep everything square and get WAY tighter.
I poly glued the whole mess and wet one side pre glue up. It is worth wetting both sides?
Re sawing cores was not very easy. I cut all the way through the second pass and did not end up with very flat cuts. I ended up with three good cores. I planed on sacrificing the first two for test setup anyways.
After building cores i gave up on that process. Profiling the cores seemed very difficult. I didn't own a router or planer yet, so i moved on to the press build.
Wow, after reading you say things like you've never used wood tools before, I was expecting a pretty dodgy press. But quite to the contrary, that's one of the cleanest and most well built presses I've seen! Nice work!
And perhaps more importantly... You have snow already?????
Thanks twiz!! Yeah don't know jack about wood but work on aircraft full time so know a bit about building metal stuffs.
No snow yet. I started the press in February 2012 and finished it in April 2012. I am just now getting to document this all.
