hydrant71 wrote:wow, those umpa lumpas are really cranking out those skis. nice work.

jason

hey, bigKam, there is a name for your skis....

^ I've missed that one! Very interesting, thanks!

^ exactly....that was my thoughts, just a marketing hype...but very interesting though...
They were not that heavy, the difference from full wood-core skis was about 200 grams.
And there is one advantage for us - it shows us that there are literally NO limits when choosing ski materials!

So, I have been to ISPO at Munchen yesterday, very cool, so many new fat and really fat skis...but the true eyecatcher were skis with granite core ! Yes, you are reading it right. There is a small manufacturer of expensive custom made skis in Switzerland called ZAI and they have incorporated aprox. ...

wow, what a monster!!!!

...nice, indeed... I like the name of this beast...

Oh yes, about "rounded" wood core. I think it is not so difficult to get this with a router. For the final assembly, I would prefer a vaccum bagging process, but with also a nightmare to keep all the stuff perfectly aligned during curing. Okay. My question was more: "will the fibergl...

If the powder acts like water, I wonder how skis modeled after waterskis would work. Waterskis have a narrow tip, wide waist, concave bottom (tunnel) and narrow squared off tail. If I ever skiied on powder (I'm in the NE) or if I was even set up to press skis, I'd try something like this. I could b...

rockaukum wrote:G-man,
Seems like a private conversation here.....

....not private at all....Big Brother is watching you...

so cool vid! and nice looking skis too...

i have read somewhere (TGR forum ?) that the camber is regular in the front half and slightly reverse at the end... don't know if its true...Anyway, very, very interisting ski... lets build it!! :D Any info about sriffness? edit> sorry, wrong info...whole ski has reverse camber... http://media.newsc...

Hi endre, well, I would really like to go, but I am not sure yet... Are you gonna be there for the entire time? I will let you know...

i've planed to order 200m of white topsheet (sublimationable) price is 7,5€/m (first i said 6,5€ but the its expensiver then i expected) interested? Hey, that sounds nice...I am trying to get my hands on the topsheet material as well :) When you are saying white topsheet, you mean just white or tra...

What do you think? How to treat a thin (0,5 mm or less) sheet of ss steel to bond with epoxy? Any ideas? I was thinking about something similar to Volant skis... very durable topsheet, right?

Wow! That IS a good deal.... What a pity that I live oversea....

Yep, topsheet....