If this is still available, I'd be interested. See PM.

Thanks!

Thanks Gav. I think I'll still laminate for consistency sake and that will hopefully minimize waste too, but we'll see. I'm just flat sawing the boards, so the ones from the middle are much nicer grain than the top/bottom ones. I agree that the hole in the panel looks terrible. I'm planning to cut a...

Will this work now?

This spring, a wooded lot near my house got cleared for construction. I obtained permission to take some wood. I now have 8 maple logs, each between 12 & 14 inches in diameter. I have a chainsaw milling attachment, so I'll be preparing these boards for next year's ski building endeavors. In addi...

It was great to run into another ski builder on the slopes--thanks for taking time to share some wisdom! Future pairs won't have a dowel in them, but the first 3 pairs do. Now that I'm hooked, my current project is building a control unit for the press. It will be powered by a RaspberryPi microcontr...

Hello Skibuilders! I've been lurking around and learning lots from this forum for about a year now. Here is an Imgur album that goes through my journey to a first pair of skis. imgur dot com/gallery/2ONzY Sorry for the broken link--I don't have the forum cred to share links yet, but that gallery is ...