buz thread

SkiTheNortheast · Post by **SkiTheNortheast** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 8:56 am

about how much does it cost to get a mold CNC'd? and a core?

Buz · Post by **Buz** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 10:02 am

[quote="amidnightproject"][quote="Buz"]Thanks for the info. I've been keeping my eye out for any carpenters, cabinet, sign makers, etc in the area who might have a CNC that I could ask, no luck yet.[/quote]

Just call and ask EVERYONE. At some point someone will have some. I found a cabinet maker that does mine now. Very nice guy and always trying to get me to let him cut my cores on his machine haha. Probably will do that at some point.[/quote]

awesome! do you just have him cut a template so you can can route the rest or does he do every rib?

amidnightproject · Post by **amidnightproject** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 10:49 am

I have him do every rib. Everything comes out identical. Even have him cut the 3/8 hole for the threaded rod. I also have him cut the top mold too.

Just makes life easier is all.

Buz · Post by **Buz** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 10:55 am

Sweet deal!

Think I figured out how to post pics, finally...here is our first pair, fresh out of the press (from this past summer):

First two with bindings...both of these are:
173cm - 130/101/115
26m radius
ash+poplar core with ash sidewall
9oz biax below/20oz tri above
burlap under clear topsheet for one, just clear topsheet on the second (with small fabric dots)

Buz · Post by **Buz** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 10:57 am

Correction: 20oz triax fg below core, 9oz bi above

amidnightproject · Post by **amidnightproject** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 11:01 am

Those look great!

amidnightproject · Post by **amidnightproject** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 11:01 am

I'm really liking the burlap too!

twizzstyle · Post by **twizzstyle** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 11:36 am

Did you do the 9oz on top because of the burlap? The skis without burlap, do those also only have 9oz on top? Very interesting combo of fiberglass.

They look great! Did you pigment the epoxy brown? Looks like it in the flashing.

Buz · Post by **Buz** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 11:52 am

Thanks guys, i ordered the glass from raka, at the time they were out of 12oz bi so i went with the 9oz...the skis are still lighter than i expected (core profile is 2-12-2, for both of those pairs). No pigment, might be just against the burlap, although this was using entropy which does have an amber-ish tone to it.

We had the cores shift slightly on both of these and had to fill the gaps with epoxy. On the next two pairs, which i'll post pics of in a bit, we solved this by just making wider cores

Buz · Post by **Buz** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 12:35 pm

These have 2-12-2 hickory and poplar cores, with maple sidewalls.

Love this Grateful Dead topsheet. i blew this image up in photoshop, added the blue gradient, Coda did the rest. Very much like Wagners 'Flow' topsheet, where i got the idea obviously...

another Coda topsheet...

all together now...

hickory + poplar core sans sidewall

skidesmond · Post by **skidesmond** » Sat Feb 11, 2012 4:49 am

Buz nice skis!

Buz · Post by **Buz** » Sun Feb 12, 2012 12:29 pm

Thanks Desmond! Hope to layup another pair next weekend.

WhitePine · Post by **WhitePine** » Sun Feb 12, 2012 12:53 pm

Those Dead skis are beautiful.

Buz · Post by **Buz** » Sun Feb 12, 2012 1:26 pm

Thanks WP, those are my go-to skis right now, psyched the way they came out and ski

OAC · Post by **OAC** » Sun Feb 12, 2012 11:08 pm

Very nice! Sweet and clean!

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