I think that most here have seen the page on graf about using a refrigerator compressor to use vacuum bagging, though it's a little spare on the details. I found this page which has slightly more detail. But an old Scientific American Amateur Scientist article shows how to turn a refrigerator compre...

It might be worth to mention that Igneous skis uses end grain wood sidewalls. This seems to be a good idea to me if only because having the end grain exposed means it'll soak up more epoxy, and the epoxy would penetrate deeper. Though you're going to be glueing shorter lengths together, which means ...

If people want to set up a wiki, pbwiki.com is free and takes just a minute to set up. So easy, I just set one up. http://skibuilders.pbwiki.com You need to enter a password to edit, it's "diyskis"... Useful? One important thing is a word with multiple capiltal letters like "PageAbout...

I also can't wait to see the write up. They sound a little similar to the DP Lotus 138 that were being discussed else where on the forum. Are they any better on hard snow than a regular reverse camber/sidcut ski?

I don't think any one has brought this up yet... and this could be stupid since I've never skied on a negative camber ski Good idea or bad--- a ski with slight negative camber in the front and a normal positive camber in the tail. I was think that this might allow you to have a ski with a normal sid...

Ok, I'm retarded. That last post was me.

I posted this in the general "heated press" thread when I guess I should have put it here. Best of luck and all. To quote myself... You said you were taking the heating element out of an old heater for your press, which seems like a good idea to me. How are you mounting it? I had a kinda c...

Damn it. I keep posting without logging in.

have you got a CAD drawing by any chance, collin? Yeah, no problem. Though I was just kinda guessing on the dimensions since I don't have any inserts, just playing around really. If somebody could tell me the distance between the two flat sides on the bottom of the insert, the diameter of the botto...

That last post, about casting silicone, was me in case anybody wants to throw questions/criticisms my way.

I was playing around with the eMachineshop.com CAD software and a milled 6 inch aluminum track would cost ~$18 (goes down to ~$15 apiece if you order 10+). Not too expensive, but I haven't been able to figure out how you design a part that has cuts on two surfaces. The part I sketched didn't have ta...

I was looking at some of the snowboard pattents they mention at grafsnowboards and though they're horribly hard to read (damn lawyers) some of them are interesting. Like "Patent Number 6,105,991 : Burton Snowboards - Engineered Wood Cores (End Grain Balsa)." (If you're trying to look at pa...

Disclaimer: I haven't tried either of these and they might be very dangerous. #1- How stiff are mold halves made out of MDF? What I was thinking was that it might be possible to to away with the press frame. One inch tubular climbing webbing is rated at ~4k lbs tensile strength, though I think knots...

I just found out about your site, and I have to say it's awesome. I passed the link along to the folks at Make and they posted it on their blog of diy coolness. I was looking at the white plastic cutting board in my kitchen thinking it might be made of noncrappy plastic. By looking around the intern...