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by mattym
Tue Apr 15, 2008 7:41 am
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: attila
Replies: 18
Views: 17490

haha stoked to see your still loving the rocker buddy!!!

skis are coming out awesome as usual!!!!
by mattym
Thu May 31, 2007 1:57 am
Forum: Aprés Ski Building
Topic: Duckfooted binding mount
Replies: 3
Views: 5670

Wow, its been too long since posting on here. The duckfoot stance is a debatable issue for sure. If any of you have seen the Volkl Sanouk, they have a diagram on the top sheet for you to use to mount them duckfoot - like different angles etc. As plywood kind of mentioned, the idea is it is supposed ...
by mattym
Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:02 am
Forum: Test and Trip Reports: How Did They Work?
Topic: testride, babe!
Replies: 59
Views: 48819

haha dude you need to finish the new boards!! They will be killing those conditions!!!

Oh and yeh - sick vid as always
by mattym
Fri Mar 09, 2007 4:11 pm
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: the best things come in threes
Replies: 15
Views: 17022

just to clarify, as far as park skiing goes with fat skis, here how i have found it. Fat skis = bigger platform = easy to stomp landings, great stability on rails. As long as they aren't too heavy, they still spin the same and everything. Then with a rocker - easy butters, no catching of tips or tai...
by mattym
Tue Mar 06, 2007 9:22 am
Forum: Ski/Snowboard Design and Layup
Topic: rockered skis
Replies: 71
Views: 68307

0 camber skis I don't think would work quite as well. I think the real compromise is a little camber underfoot and a rocker in the tips and tails. I don't believe a skis with 0 camber would serve quite the same purpose... especially park wise. Something like the EHP would work great, but once again ...
by mattym
Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:18 pm
Forum: Ski/Snowboard Design and Layup
Topic: rockered skis
Replies: 71
Views: 68307

so i finally rode the hellbents and the seths today!!!!! Soooo epic, they are both amazing skis!! We had fresh pow to ski in, some good natural hits on the way down, and a rail park - so i got to try them in all diff ways. The Hellbents are just mental, they tear through pow and chop, and butter soo...
by mattym
Mon Feb 19, 2007 8:52 am
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: Geoff's Build
Replies: 30
Views: 29525

wow dude - some great looking skis!!!

on your pontoon style ski did you use any rocker or reverse camber? Or normal camber?
by mattym
Tue Feb 13, 2007 4:33 pm
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: plywood`s ride - the beginning
Replies: 46
Views: 47727

yeh right cool - thats more what i wanted to know - if there was any better way, cheers for that. Might consider wrapping twice or something but looks like maybe not necessary. Now the hunt is on to find some good cloth... Guess i could always use bed linen
by mattym
Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:52 am
Forum: Aprés Ski Building
Topic: Everyone's backgrounds
Replies: 49
Views: 46089

So it's probably time for me too... I finished school and went straight to university to study commerce, with a double major in accounting and marketing. After my first year in uni in Australia I decided to go do a season somewhere - I ended up in Vail/Beaver Creek. After that season I realised i ne...
by mattym
Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:28 am
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: plywood`s ride - the beginning
Replies: 46
Views: 47727

haha yeh I kinda thought that may be a little extreme - but if you could find it for a decent price it could perhaps hold more pressure than say bed linen....

Id like to find a different way to join the cloth other than stitching, athough this seems to work. Do you think there are better ways?
by mattym
Mon Feb 12, 2007 12:51 pm
Forum: Ski/Snowboard Design and Layup
Topic: rockered skis
Replies: 71
Views: 68307

I have a couple of friends that ride for liberty and also help in design so ill hit them up and see what info i can get on them. Are you sure the buttplug is not removable? What sense is it having a swallow tail then, if it is just plugged? The swallow tail could never be used as a swallow tail?!?! ...
by mattym
Mon Feb 12, 2007 10:45 am
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: plywood`s ride - the beginning
Replies: 46
Views: 47727

alright, well i think i might have found the cloth you speak of! http://www.schoeller-textiles.com/default.asp?cat1ID=128&cat2ID=130&pageID=79&emotionstate=0&emotionID=8&langID=2 It looks like it would make an awesome 'pressframe' - 5 times stronger than steel gram for gram!! Cli...
by mattym
Mon Feb 12, 2007 10:14 am
Forum: Ski/Snowboard Design and Layup
Topic: rockered skis
Replies: 71
Views: 68307

Quick update - that powder channel i was talking about on the volkl Katana is the "butplug" concept endre was talking about in the fischer/salomon/hellbent thread. Its basically a removable piece that fits into the swallow tail to make it switch rideable! Also liberty skis are using bamboo...
by mattym
Mon Feb 12, 2007 9:21 am
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: New workshop = new skis...The Chronicles of
Replies: 19
Views: 27437

nice dude, they are looking sweet - what are the dimensions?
by mattym
Mon Feb 12, 2007 9:19 am
Forum: Equipment and Tools (e.g., ski press, core profiler, etc)
Topic: alternatives to a peunamic press
Replies: 34
Views: 26759

Ok wow, this has kind of confused me. I have been working in ski shops for a few years now, and I have always been told/under the impression that skis with full sidewall were more durable, stiffer, but yet slightly heavier and more expensive to produce. Cap construction has always been associated wi...