Hey Rob, You going to be on campus this summer? I'm planning to make a few pairs myself as an Independent Design Project. Making a new mold out here is going to be cheaper then driving a truck from Maine, maybe we can figure out a press. I am not going to be on campus this summer. I will actually b...

Your skis look great! Well done! Any idea why you have so much wrinkling in the top sheet? It doesn't look like you have any breather cloth between the top sheet and the bag material, why is that? You will get more even and complete pressure if you have a breather cloth, and it might help to distri...

Well my first pair is complete and trimmed out. I mounted the bindings last night. http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c2/corvettecrazy/Ski_Building/IMG_5156.jpg http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c2/corvettecrazy/Ski_Building/IMG_5161.jpg http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c2/corvettecrazy/Ski_Building...

Well, made another ski this past friday. The difference this time is that I made a tunnel so I could heat the air inside hoping for a better epoxy cure. So far it seems to have worked alright. I am not exactly sure what temperatures it got up to as I had no thermometer but It was fun. http://i24.pho...

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Btw odin, you shop set up looks great!

Looks like a great first ski! What are you using to seal your vacuum bag? Looks like caulking or something, looks messy. You can get vacuum bagging tape pretty cheap, its a sticky rubber/clay kinda material. (I don't vacuum bag my skis, I have a firehose press, but I do a lot of vacuum bagging with...

Well I figured I would make a post in the log section to share where my group has come in our ski making process. To start from the beginning, my high school shop teacher agreed to work with me and CNC the pieces for our mold. (Yes the high school's in the district I went to have CNC routers, among ...

What are the graphics on those board? Tie-dyed rice paper??

Looks awesome!

You should be able to do a lot of creative stuff on that.

The high school I went to had(still has) a CNC router and we did so many cool projects on it. I am actually going back because they agreed to CNC a bottom mold for me.

I figured I would introduce myself as I have been avidly reading everything I can on the forum and other websites surrounding ski building. I have always wondered what it would take to build skis but it wasn't until I enrolled in a composites class this quarter that this pondering will turn into rea...