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Here's my latest builds both have 1 coat of sprayed spar urethane will add another coat tonight and maybe another on Turkey day.

those look great! i like the graphics on the veneers and the 2 color tip fills

Those are beautiful, but how thick are the cores? They look massive at the tips!

twizzstyle wrote:Those are beautiful, but how thick are the cores? They look massive at the tips!

Ya I was wondering about that as well, in the pics they look to be 5-6mm overall?

sam

Tip/core intersection measures 2.8mm, they dont seem to thick might be the way they look in the pic. I cpied these from another pair I built 3 years ago and they seemed soft in the tip theyre rockered 20cm so instead of 2.4mm tip fill I had, I wanted to stiffen these up slightly so I used 2 pieces of base and it seemed to do an awesome job.

Did you abrade the base material or was it already abraded on both sides?

The black had both sides abaded pink onyl one side. So I sanded the one pink side and flamed it all.

Nice builds NRG! I like your graphics style, on the skis especially.

I found your thread... I'm the same frare bear from silverfish.

Welcome to the asylum. Thanks

Another pair built for a buddy for his birthday 3 yrs ago finished next week lmao still need a bunch of spray coats.

182cm rockered tips 125-93-115 sublimated pbt topsheets smooth-on 380 sidewalls 22oz triax 8 strands carbon tow 12k top heat only QCM epoxy

Here's my most recent build 163cm 125-93-115 22oz triax, pbt subbed topsheets I do myself, QCM epoxy. They were for a woman who owns a resturant called the Broken Yolk.

Look great. Please explain more about your sublimation process?

I have an Epson 1400 printer with a sublimation cis ink system I print with onto sublimation paper. I take the top and bottom ski molds out of my press along with heat blankets and cattrack. Then the board stack and the 2 metal plates go into the press cavity, I put 1 heat blanket between one plate and top Ibeam on the press, and air bladder between bottom plate and board stack. I slide paper and pbt and a piece of parchment paper(under pbt so dirt grease etc. doesnt get onto pbt) into the slot between plates press at 60psi and turn heat on till it reaches 275*f turn heat off let it cool then release pressure and pull topsheet out.

I think I follow! How thick are those metal plates? They look very thick and heavy