Thanks for the good words guys, I'm super stoked with how they came out. Was prepared for a total failure the on the first go. Cut them apart last night and it looks like the edges held pretty well, and the bases are as flat as I can measure which is sweet. One of the cores did shift about 5mm at the tip, but won't be enough to cause a problem. Right ski will be slightly duck foot, at least it didn't go the other way. Cured exactly to the shape of the mold, no weird camber issues, or loss of tip/tail height so far.
skimann20 wrote:do you wax your cassette?
Ya, but just one coat of mold release wax. Tabs stuck pretty well, I wasn't expecting them to but I thought I'd give it a try. Spray glue held the bases down and skis popped right out with no issue too.
Cornice wrote:
Dont get too eager and flash them too early. Give that stuff a chance to cure.
What were your graphics printed on and what with? They look great!
It also looks like you used tape on your bases?
Good advice. I started trimming them last night and decided pretty quickly to hold off for a few more days. Partly because I need to get a better tool to do the job properly, and partly because they weren't completely set yet. Started tearing fibers near the cut line, but nothing close to the ski. They're now sitting in my living room....because its warm....or at least that's what I told my GF when she gave me the what the dded do you think you're doing with those things look.
Graphics are printed on tissue paper on my shitty old printer. Lots of cursing and arts and crafts time with a glue stick, but wasn't too bad once I figured out what worked. I went out looking for rice paper but couldn't find any. The edge of the tissue paper is very faintly visible but I spent about 10 seconds trimming the graphics out, so I could make that disappear for the next pair. At the last minute I decided to mark the midline of the running length right on the core with a sharpie. Didn't really let it dry and it bled a bit and doesn't look so great, but whatever.
And ya, put a layer of packing tape on the bases. I use it for everything I want to keep epoxy off. Works really well to line simple tooling to make cheap reusable molds for other stuff too, but that's getting off topic.
