Sneak Peak: A couple of new skis

[kelvin]

I made a couple of new skis this weekend with the help of the CNC and a couple of friends. I used the CNC to cut the bases and profile the core. It is much more accurate than doing it by hand and the bases come out super smooth.

I didn't have time to make the core blanks, so I went to Home Depot and got a piece of 1"x12"x6' board of poplar. The wide boards at HD are not one piece of solid wood, but made out of 2" laminations. I ripped the board in half which gave me 2 cores. It worked pretty well and is a quick and easy way of getting core blanks. The poplar is pretty light, compared to maple or birch.

The Spacepants:


Assymetrical sidecut: 32m inside, 22m outside radius
cnc cut the circles on the bases. It took a little sanding to get them to fit perfectly, but I'm pretty happy at the way they turned out.
poplar core, uhmw tipspacers, poplar sidewalls

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poplar core, uhmw tipspacers, poplar sidewalls.

a few more pics here:
http://www.skibuilders.com/cpg/thumbnails.php?album=13

[iggyskier]

Looks great. Glad to hear the CNC worked so well.

How long did it take you to profile each core?

[kelvin]

Once setup, it took about 20 minutes to profile a core. I'm pretty sure I can shave off quite a bit of time by optimizing the cuts though.

[G-man]

Very nice, as usual. Very exciting times on the CNC, I'm sure.

G-man

[RoboGeek]

well now get testing so we can hear how they worked!!