plywood wrote:you can take 46kg of luggage incl. ski

Are you moving to NZ?
46 Kg is enough to bring press, tools and materials to make skis.

I did many flights with my gear: Canada, Norway, Japan, Sicily. Skis is no problem at all. I have a snowboard bag, and I can put two pairs of skis, boots, clothes and gear (I did when I flyed to Japan and Norway). I admit my skis are light, and telelmark bidings are much lighter than alpine ones so ...

I visited a ski test laboratory months ago. They had few downhill worldcup skis, with an alluminium plate glued about 20 cm from the tip. The guy told me it is for dampening: just cut a 3X20 cm plate (3 mm thick) and glue it on the ski with a double side tape. The plate should be located around the ...

... is a waxless base material availible anywhere? ... Yes, it is. It is fiberglass. I was in Moena (Italy) few days ago, during the "Scufoneda" telemark festival. I met some guys from Slovenia: one of them had a pair of home made skis. Ash woodcore, shaped following a 100 years old norwe...

Endre, that's super cool! Was it plastically deformed? I have no car, so I can't test it that way. I did few testing on the material I cut away while trimming the skis: as long the ski, about 1 or 2 cm wide. Indeed, it deforms plastically (like the ski tested by bigKam), but it is quite hard to brea...

It would be cool to make a pair only with hand tools. Probably it takes too look with a handplaner; I think a "ziehmesser" is more suited for this work.
Then you can use a cardboard profile template to check the thickness while working.
Have a look on www.dick.biz (in German) for hand tools.

Probably they have troubles while pressing the Fischer 207...

It is quite funny: the less it snows in the Alps, the more the companies are working to make powder only skis.
They make fun of skiers.

Yours parents will be quite happy to have a new epoxy floor...

Cores made with narrower strips are probably more stiffer in torsion, but for a fat powder ski, it will not be really important. Vynil glue, or poliurethane wood glue is perfect for glueing the core. In case you are interested, I have some cores to sell, just let me know as soon as possible (PM). ht...

PB wrote:You lucky........ lucky........... b*rstard (for living in Cham)

Are you sure?

I do not think that light is more prone to vibraction. Acutally carbon is damper than glass, so it a light honeycomb carbon ski can be damper than a heavy glass one.

Probably it is sufficient to fill few honeycomb cells with resin to keep the screws.

Nice, you have finally managed to finish them. Will the 30 cm of new snow be enought?
It seems it was a good idea to come to Japan.

www. teleleysin.ch

Now I am in Nozawa Onsen, Nagano-ken, Japan.
Next week in Hakuba area.

I have the Babacool (viewtopic.php?t=322) and these new ones.

Finally I could try non-waxed skis on Saturday: PTEX 900, one side treated and the other is smooth. After pressing I polished the base slightly with sand paper, grinded the edges to the base level, and used a sharp metal scraper to shave the base. Then I went skiing. Without waxing. Well, they were ...

Even if the snow is an optional this season in the Alps, I decided to go skiing to test the sksi I built 2 months ago. They are 108-80-104, 178 cm lon, 3 Kg. Tips and tail (on 15 cm) are made with a Ptex-vibrachoc-Ptex sandwich, jointed to the woodcore. The real special thing is the base: PTEX 900, ...