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by lucacasty
Wed Feb 02, 2011 10:45 am
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: Leaf Skis
Replies: 71
Views: 56906

Hi everybody We did some changes on the Woodbones in order to reduce the weight. With the standard bamboo woodcore the weight was 2400 grams per single ski. We made a test ski with a red cedar woodcore with bamboo sidewalls and we reduced the weight to 1850 grams. This means more than half a kilo. T...
by lucacasty
Mon Dec 13, 2010 3:30 am
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: Leaf Skis
Replies: 71
Views: 56906

Hi Luca, You mentioned testing more natural finishes in an early post. What option did you go for in the end? Rich Hi Rich Last year the cycle we used was the following: sanding+sealer+sanding+PU base+light sanding+PU finish. The finish was great but not so natural. We changed and now the cycle is ...
by lucacasty
Sun Nov 28, 2010 9:56 am
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: Leaf Skis
Replies: 71
Views: 56906

That is awesome!! One question: what are you using for mold release and how are you going with not getting epoxy stuck to your cassette with the two parts fixed together idea. Again awesome press and skis! Actually two questions: You guys have "day jobs" in the woodworking industry as I r...
by lucacasty
Sun Nov 28, 2010 9:51 am
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: Leaf Skis
Replies: 71
Views: 56906

Wow, great looking skis! can you elaborate on your water heating system? How are you holding down your wood on the CNC machine, vacuum? Thanks! For the heating system we used an aluminium bar that has 8 longitudinal holes. In 4 of the I have water going in and on the other I have water going out. T...
by lucacasty
Sun Nov 28, 2010 9:38 am
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: Leaf Skis
Replies: 71
Views: 56906

Having been lucky enough to see these skis in person. I can only say they are of the highest quality - finish - attention to detail, etc. that I have seen anywhere. Absolutely flawless ;) Hi Idris It was a pleasure to meet you yesterday in Camonix. I hope to see your skis with the new finish posted...
by lucacasty
Fri Nov 26, 2010 2:37 pm
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: Leaf Skis
Replies: 71
Views: 56906

Excellent! Are you in production now? Yes, we are making around 20 pairs per type (actually two) to see if there might be a small market ready for this sort of skis. The wood finish is really natural and simple, let's see how it goes. We even set up a small web site because we would like to do dire...
by lucacasty
Fri Nov 26, 2010 9:06 am
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: Leaf Skis
Replies: 71
Views: 56906

Hi here are somo picture of the new press. The press and the stell mould work great and results are definitely much better than vacuum pressing. The mould is made by a 3mm stell plate and an other layer of 2mm laser cut bolted to the 3mm one. Using this system eliminated any problem with edges and d...
by lucacasty
Wed Nov 03, 2010 8:21 am
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: OAC 2010/11
Replies: 229
Views: 114144

Ciao everybody This is a video from Boheme skis and as you can see they a re using a vacuum press similar to ours. http://www.youtube.com/user/ArnaudB100#p/u/0/3tEinQwbUGc After my experience with vacuum now we are building a big standard press. As soon we will be able to press the first skis I'll r...
by lucacasty
Sun Oct 31, 2010 3:43 am
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: Leaf Skis
Replies: 71
Views: 56906

The thing is, I really dopn't understand how a mechnical pressure is better than vaccum. It should be all about pressure by surface...and vaccum is unbeatable (unless you have a bad vaccuum system). I'm not good at physics, but I understand that if you reach 0bars in absolute, or -1 bar in relative...
by lucacasty
Sun Oct 31, 2010 3:37 am
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: Leaf Skis
Replies: 71
Views: 56906

How toll it is? Footprint looks narrow. In metal fabrication (I was told) height equals wight or at least 3/4 of it. 1200 lb not bad, mine probably over 1ton and can be wheeled around by one person. The press is 2 meter tall by 1 meter wide. Actually I'm not an engineer but I tried to push it to se...
by lucacasty
Fri Oct 29, 2010 4:41 am
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: Leaf Skis
Replies: 71
Views: 56906

Hi, I understand your concerna about pressure, but did you manage to make links between the skis you made and the fact that you were using vaccuum ? In one word, does vaccuum make worse skis ? add : one of my friend combined vaccuum and mechanical press, awesome results :idea: Well, I think that va...
by lucacasty
Fri Oct 29, 2010 1:21 am
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: Leaf Skis
Replies: 71
Views: 56906

Btw, can you recommend a brand of varnish to a fellow european ;) Definitely yes, I use Sayerlack products. For the base I use TU160 + it's hardener For the finish TZ 9010/00 + it's hardener The base is not a big problem if you want you can even use an epoxy base and the cover with the PU finish. A...
by lucacasty
Fri Oct 29, 2010 12:21 am
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: Leaf Skis
Replies: 71
Views: 56906

Here we are back with some big news. And when I say big I really mean BIG. Last year we produced our skis using a membrane press with vacuum technology. This worked pretty well but the pressure you can reach is only one bar. For this reason we started a new project for building a standard air press....
by lucacasty
Fri May 07, 2010 6:44 am
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: Leaf Skis
Replies: 71
Views: 56906

Mmm...what could I say....let me think... WAOW !!!!! :D :D :D amazing skis, simple process, nice graphics and awesome finish... I'm a fan :D Thanks. By the way I always go to ski to LaThuile in Valle d'Aoste. If by any chance you come to La Rosiere/La Thuile you can try them. This is a video made l...
by lucacasty
Tue Apr 06, 2010 6:40 am
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: anti divorce skis
Replies: 2
Views: 3879

Great job kelvin.
Pleased to have inspired you.
Did you use natural veneer or engineered one?
If you used engineered veneer of which brand (actually there a re very few producers in the world)?