From the second season I was quite happy with the results and today I still ski almost all of the skis below today. All are built with wooden sidewalls and with either ash or smoked oak veneer as topsheet.
Currently I am mostly interested in building lightweight touring skis. I started with a full cap construction for the first two builds but had problems with proper core alignment. To solve that problem I went for a semi-cap construction for the next two builds. I made cores with poured sidewalls (6 mm under the bindings and 2 mm for the rest of the ski) and after profiling I handshaped the top of the core (somehow like Fischer or Scott is doing for their touring skis).
All turned out being very lightweight (well, the white skis were too light
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For this season I was fortunate enough to get acces to a proper wood workshop with a CNC machine and a laser cutter. Made the process more complicated in the first place, but once everything is dialed in, I enjoy using these bigger machines.
I built several pairs of touring skis very similiar to Akiwi was recently positng. The core has maple sidewalls under the bindings and tapers towards the tip and tail. In that area I place laser-cut 2.5 mm balsa pieces.
1030 g/ski are so easy on the hike up, while the Fritschi Vipec I mounted doesn't add much more. I don't like the feeling of the full carbon laminate though, especially in harder snow conditions. For the next ski, I want to add some dampening material, maybe flax or go back to a glassfibre laminate.
