Design questions
Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2016 12:53 am
Hello everyone
I currently profile my cores 2-12-2 and then lay up as per my other posts - mixture of biaxial glass and UD CF.
This, so far has produced the flex patterns that I like - softer tips into a powerful sweet spot and thence into a slightly stiffer tail. widths vary between 88 -100. So far so good.
I was thinking about some powder/off piste skis - say a waist of 112-115 and I was musing about the flex pattern. The skis are likely to be lightly rockered throughout and it struck me that in order to get the best performance from this sort of ski the flex ought to be more even. I had in mind changing the profile to 3-11-3 in order to achieve this. I want to get a smooth even flex.
Can anyone comment on this? The tips would be a bit stiffer than currently and the underfoot area more flexible. I am sure this would even out the flex, but is this even desirable in the sort of ski I am talking about?
All comments/views gratefully recieved
Thanks
Gilo
I currently profile my cores 2-12-2 and then lay up as per my other posts - mixture of biaxial glass and UD CF.
This, so far has produced the flex patterns that I like - softer tips into a powerful sweet spot and thence into a slightly stiffer tail. widths vary between 88 -100. So far so good.
I was thinking about some powder/off piste skis - say a waist of 112-115 and I was musing about the flex pattern. The skis are likely to be lightly rockered throughout and it struck me that in order to get the best performance from this sort of ski the flex ought to be more even. I had in mind changing the profile to 3-11-3 in order to achieve this. I want to get a smooth even flex.
Can anyone comment on this? The tips would be a bit stiffer than currently and the underfoot area more flexible. I am sure this would even out the flex, but is this even desirable in the sort of ski I am talking about?
All comments/views gratefully recieved
Thanks
Gilo