Ahhhh not to fast there! actually I ordered the top sheets to be made at 187cm (skis are at 183) so something ether went wrong with the photo layup or the printing process. I didn't figure it out until I was doing my pre-layup... arghhhh so i just went for it. if i scale my ski down to a 178 these would just make it.twizzstyle wrote:I see someone didn't do a very good job lining up their graphics on the tails in the layup... tsk tsk (I've done that plenty of times)
Shift: I really like your router bridge. great idea! I remember your ski with the wood sidewalls from "back in the day" I think those look so good. It's on my bucket list to try. very classy.
Jekul, Vinman, Skidesmond: thank you for the very useful information. I ended up taking a mix of all your info and came up with a hybrid. I drove down to Rocker (25% off on router bits today) and picked up the Rockler version of this:
then picked up one of these:
http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?page ... te=ROCKLER
I ended up sanding the height of the guide bushing down to the height of the edge . I then put the router bit slightly higher than the the top of the edge and routed with the base up. They turned out great.
Right now by babies are at the ski shop getting tuned and mounted. okay I'm getting raped and need to figure out how to base grid these skis on my own. (by bases were very flat, i was happy with that)
Skidesmond, I'll get more photos on Weds when I pick them up.
I do have one more story. When I walked into the ski shop with my skis the guy that works there is a "self proclaimed guru" when it comes to skis. He looks at my skis and says "who makes those. now I know my skis and I've never seen those. made in the usa, not made in china! Apocalypse, those are bad ass." okay so the shit eating grin on my face could not be held. "Well I did" it was total awesomeness!
thanks to all of you for the all the help!