Ski design points and concepts
Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 6:29 pm
We don't a have a lot of discussion here on the various types of ski design concepts.
I want start a thread on the various design concepts and now to manipulate them into a workable ski design.
Concepts like tip shape, taper, pin tail, rocker, camber, various sidecuts and radius...how to combine these to come up with a purposeful design.
One of the first things I want to talk about first is tip design on reverse sidecut-rockered tip sections. I really like a shark nose/bullet shaped tip for pow/crust/mank but they can feel twitchy on hard snow and some folks feel like even in soft conditions they can feel this way. Much of this can be changed with proper tuning ....but that is another topic all together.
Have any of you experimented with striaght sections in this kind of tip? So something like a shark nose tip with a flatter sidecut section at the wide point that transitions into traditional sidecut? I'm think that this would feel less hooky/twitchy but still give the feeling of cutting though cut up snow well, which the shark nose/ reverse sidecut tip does well. This might also perform better on harder snow than a full reverse sidecut tip...???
Please discuss and share ideas, this is now that aspect of building skis that intrigues me the most these days.
I want start a thread on the various design concepts and now to manipulate them into a workable ski design.
Concepts like tip shape, taper, pin tail, rocker, camber, various sidecuts and radius...how to combine these to come up with a purposeful design.
One of the first things I want to talk about first is tip design on reverse sidecut-rockered tip sections. I really like a shark nose/bullet shaped tip for pow/crust/mank but they can feel twitchy on hard snow and some folks feel like even in soft conditions they can feel this way. Much of this can be changed with proper tuning ....but that is another topic all together.
Have any of you experimented with striaght sections in this kind of tip? So something like a shark nose tip with a flatter sidecut section at the wide point that transitions into traditional sidecut? I'm think that this would feel less hooky/twitchy but still give the feeling of cutting though cut up snow well, which the shark nose/ reverse sidecut tip does well. This might also perform better on harder snow than a full reverse sidecut tip...???
Please discuss and share ideas, this is now that aspect of building skis that intrigues me the most these days.