In your picture of your press... under the mold appears to be some plywood, bridging over some pieces of wood on either side, and it looks like it's getting pushed down? Whats up with that? You're laying up the skis directly on hardwood with mold release, no metal cassette? the plywood is bridging ...

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For the second pair I decided to change some things: 1. MAS epoxy --> 2:1 vs. 5:1 should make for a more robust blending of resiner / hardener. certainly makes it easier to add the right amount by weight or volume. I use a scale accurate to 1 g and the densities are pretty close so i just go by weig...

the first pair went kind of disasterously. I laminated poplar + maple together, used a planer sled to get to roughly 3-13-3 (I was aiming for thinner but got nervous about tear-out) and laid up the ski using base VDS 22 oz triax core 22 oz triax cotton relief map of Crawford Notch NH topsheet using ...

So I just fired my third pair into the press this morning and i thought i'd start documenting my progress. I found this site a year or so ago after checking out Lucid skis website and seeing that the process was fairly straightforward, and, since I have a new love of backcountry skiing, I thought &q...