Good looking ski's!
And nice inovation with your edge bender and shop space use!
Nice to see other builders work from here in the valley!
I am based out of kelowna. Would love to get a closer look at your ski's sometime if your ever ripping up at big white.
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- Mon Dec 28, 2009 12:47 pm
- Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
- Topic: Skevik Skis
- Replies: 35
- Views: 47707
- Mon Dec 28, 2009 12:42 pm
- Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
- Topic: first board finally!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5416
- Mon Dec 28, 2009 8:27 am
- Forum: Ski/Snowboard Design and Layup
- Topic: welding wood!!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5253
- Mon Dec 28, 2009 12:18 am
- Forum: Ski/Snowboard Design and Layup
- Topic: welding wood!!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5253
welding wood!!
pretty cool way to make cores, with no additives. Nidecker is supposedly using this technic on some of their cores. looks like is take a pretty expesive and large machine to actually weld the wood, but the idea of a bond formed with only the wood and the chemicals released/created by rubbing wood to...
- Sun Dec 27, 2009 10:15 am
- Forum: Ski/Snowboard Design and Layup
- Topic: attaching sidewalls to the core
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3098
after reading on these forums that happy monkey snowboards was using polyurethane glue to attach his side walls, i decided to do a test piece myself. i could not break the UHMW off of my test core piece with me hands, so i grabed my 22oz framing hammer, and started taping it lightly then harder. i h...
- Sun Dec 27, 2009 10:04 am
- Forum: Ski/Snowboard Design and Layup
- Topic: lightest glass that is safe to build with?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 28746
- Tue Dec 01, 2009 12:46 am
- Forum: Equipment and Tools (e.g., ski press, core profiler, etc)
- Topic: My plan for cheap effective heat
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2640
My plan for cheap effective heat
Flexwatt heat Tape Seems to mostly be sold as a heat source for pets like reptiles online. Will be building a heating system soon and will post so info and pics after i get it all sorted out. http://www.arbreptiles.com/cages/flexwire.shtml seams cheap and easy to use, heats up to 190F build or buy y...
- Fri Nov 13, 2009 7:40 am
- Forum: Equipment and Tools (e.g., ski press, core profiler, etc)
- Topic: wooden press frame claimed to take 145psi?!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3167
flexy
looks like he must get deflection in his press.< probably pretty cheap to build tho!
- Fri Nov 13, 2009 7:34 am
- Forum: Ski/Snowboard Design and Layup
- Topic: Environmentally Friendly Snowboards and Skis
- Replies: 40
- Views: 23168
ordered
i just ordered some of the super sap 100/ 1100
will post the results asap.
will post the results asap.
- Mon Nov 09, 2009 9:50 pm
- Forum: Ski/Snowboard Design and Layup
- Topic: Environmentally Friendly Snowboards and Skis
- Replies: 40
- Views: 23168
Thanks!
Hey Thanks for the information!
I originally posted the video on this thread, as i was so amazed that he was putting the resin in his mouth!
Its awesome what you guys at Entropy are doing. Keep up the good work!
I originally posted the video on this thread, as i was so amazed that he was putting the resin in his mouth!
Its awesome what you guys at Entropy are doing. Keep up the good work!
- Thu Oct 29, 2009 7:39 am
- Forum: Equipment and Tools (e.g., ski press, core profiler, etc)
- Topic: Vacuum V.S. Press
- Replies: 15
- Views: 11244
heating a vacum press
anyone use a heat blanket on their vacum setup?
i was thinking 180f might soften up the bag too much..
i was thinking 180f might soften up the bag too much..
- Mon Oct 19, 2009 6:43 pm
- Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
- Topic: 09-10
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6663
nice looking board!
Nice looking board! How did you profile down the sidewalls to match the pre profiled core?
- Wed Oct 14, 2009 6:17 pm
- Forum: Materials and Supplies
- Topic: spraypaint/airbrush under clear topsheet
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3800
i built a board with a water based stenciled graphic painted straight onto the inside of the base of the board. It covered about 30% of the board and worked without delam until one sidewall let go from doing tree bonks into spins and not using the right epoxy... never had a problem with the graphic ...
- Wed Oct 14, 2009 5:43 pm
- Forum: Aprés Ski Building
- Topic: Discovery Channel -- how to make skis
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2339
wow
crazy how machines can do everything except the layup,
must be nice to have the cash to build those custom beauties
must be nice to have the cash to build those custom beauties
- Tue Oct 13, 2009 9:11 pm
- Forum: Ski/Snowboard Design and Layup
- Topic: Environmentally Friendly Snowboards and Skis
- Replies: 40
- Views: 23168
sweet!
what a great topic! i too have been looking into making my boards have as small of a carbon footprint as possible! check out the pine based resins used by Signal snowboards, you can eat it!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67pGmOxZSvE created by entropy resisns , a pretty sweet company, using natures...