Snowchasers
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 4:08 pm
Hey Fellows,
So here I am, making my first pair of skis! Got all my material and now figuring out the last details... I thought about posting my CAD drawing out here, just in case I did a pretty obvious mistake! Please let me know!
So it is a 150-125-130 ski... Pintail design, kind of an hybrid between the BD Megawatt and the DPS Lotus 120. As you can see the minimum width of the ski is not exactly right at cord center, but about 20cm lower... I think this is how you come up with a pintail design and from the pictures of the Megawatt and the Lotus that seems to make sense.
They the layup... nothing fancy for the first time! The core will be 10.5-11mm at CC, extending 10cm in from of CC and 25 cm behind, tapering down to 2mm at the tip and tail. I will put a bunch of inserts in there, I had problems last year with my O1 pulling out of the ski...
Flat camber... 27cm rocker (maybe longer... like 40cm). Is 55mm enough in the front?
I laminated my core (half of it so that I can cut it on the table saw) this weekend and just plane the laminate this afternoon. Now I need to slice it, and join the two half before profiling them... looking good!
Thanks for any advices!
Alexis
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http://snowchasers.blogspot.com/
So here I am, making my first pair of skis! Got all my material and now figuring out the last details... I thought about posting my CAD drawing out here, just in case I did a pretty obvious mistake! Please let me know!
So it is a 150-125-130 ski... Pintail design, kind of an hybrid between the BD Megawatt and the DPS Lotus 120. As you can see the minimum width of the ski is not exactly right at cord center, but about 20cm lower... I think this is how you come up with a pintail design and from the pictures of the Megawatt and the Lotus that seems to make sense.
They the layup... nothing fancy for the first time! The core will be 10.5-11mm at CC, extending 10cm in from of CC and 25 cm behind, tapering down to 2mm at the tip and tail. I will put a bunch of inserts in there, I had problems last year with my O1 pulling out of the ski...
Flat camber... 27cm rocker (maybe longer... like 40cm). Is 55mm enough in the front?
I laminated my core (half of it so that I can cut it on the table saw) this weekend and just plane the laminate this afternoon. Now I need to slice it, and join the two half before profiling them... looking good!
Thanks for any advices!
Alexis
--
http://snowchasers.blogspot.com/