How do you like the solid-wood core approach? What I said was a little bit misleading. My solid wood cores are all one type of wood, with 7 stips of wood about 3/4 inch wide laminated together. The only solid wood cores that I dont laminate are the bamboo cores, like you can see in the bottom of th...

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First three pair out of the press First pair is for mitchell, 192cm, maple core with carbon fiber topsheet Second is for Tia, 170 cm, maple+poplar core with birch topsheet Third is for Ben, 183 cm maple core with maple topsheet http://i571.photobucket.com/albums/ss151/nickmarshall542/Ski%20Building/...

Also, my roomates and I filmed a bunch with go pros this year and dain put this edit together. I am the only skier in the movie, except the double back was my friend jim.

Well, the first pair of skis that I built were pretty fun, but a little bit stiff. Since then I have built 8 more pairs of skis, 3 for myself and 5 for friends. I also built some skis with one stratight edge that can be locked together for downhill riding. I am told this is called splitboarding, but...

I mounted my bindings 2 cm forward of where I usually design them to be. I tested about 25 different pair of retail skis last month and played around with the binding positions on a lot of them. I came to realize that I like them a little more forward now. I have been messing around with this as we...

For gluing edges onto base material, I have had really good luck with 2P-10. It comes in 4 different viscosities, I usually use the Thick or Medium. I have found that it works better than superglue, but I cant figure out what goes into 2P-10 and it could be another cyanoacrylate glue. If you have tw...

I tried to do the recess with a rabbeting bit that has a bearing. Looks like this- http://cdn1.grizzly.com/pics/jpeg288/c/c1558.jpg Imagine it flipped upside down and mounted into a router table. It worked pretty good for the cores that only had wood sidewalls, but when I attempted to route into thi...

Like I was saying above, I am pretty satisfied with how my first pair of skis came out. They have Black p-tex base from ski builders Rubber foil over the edges A layer of 22 oz fiberglass Maple/poplar core with 3/4" strips. The pattern was M-M-P-M-M-P-M-M. Like I said above, I left the core wid...

Excellent work. I noticed you pre-bent the the tip/tail section. Was it difficult to get the core placed on the base? I see you also used dowels to keep the core from shifting. I guess you have been reading the forum :D Way to go! I didn't actually prebend the tip and tail sections, that's how they...

Well done! Nice work! What a nasty core profiler! :) Did it run without difficulties through the planer? I know these DeWalt planers are strong bastards. The core profiler has been working ok, I am building a router bridge to replace it. At first I was having problems with the core not staying on t...

Here are the first ski templates I got cut out. One is a 185 that is 103 mm underfoot and the other is a 191 that is 120 mm underfoot. http://i571.photobucket.com/albums/ss151/nickmarshall542/Ski%20Building/001.jpg The first core I laminated next to some extra core materials. I used maple and poplar...

My first pair of skis came out pretty good. They have a maple/poplar core with maple sidewalls. I didn't actually glue on sidewalls I just made the core wider than the base.

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Before I start, I would like to say thank you to everyone who posts on this forum and those who helped with building the website. It has led me to start this addicting hobby that I will keep working on for a while. I started reading here about 4 or 5 years ago, and have been working on building skis...