Wa-hoo hose-man!! Great vid and tele skiing. Are you givin' away the location of that ski day? Looked very nice. Pretty cool looking down at your boards and realizing, "Wow, I made these... and they work!", eh? What's the plan for the next pair?.. better hurry, that snow is going to be mel...

Hey Hose-man, great first go'round. It's all about learning things from our latest attempts. My first pair were quite soft also, but they turned out to be the best skis I've ever skied. The soft flex is just great for the deep corn snow this time of year. I did end up with about 12mm of camber, thou...

I'm having simular issues. It's pretty diffucult having to be totally reliant on just one source for an item as important as the metal edges. I don't know at this time what it would take, but count me in on a team effort to find another source, even a European manufacturer, so that we can have a mor...

I built 16mm of camber into my mold, figuring that I'd lose about 1/2 of that in the end product. I over compensated simularly in the curves of the tip and tail blocks, as well. I decided to go with a heated press, and so, also went with the heat cure resin system. After pressing, my skis have exact...

Norton, Yep, I had a mill very simular to that one... 5 foot bar, two big ol' powerheads, same .404 chain. But, I finally built a VW powered mill on a trailer... or I should say almost built one. Just about the time I finished it up (a two year long 'free time' project), a friend of mine bought a ve...

Hey guys, Thanks for the feedback and suggestions. Yes, using UHMW for side walls certainly does add to the cost of a pair of skis... about fifteen dollars... and using it takes a lot more time and sweat to get them finished. So, why use it? Okay, here's the deal... or at least a good part of it. I ...

Hey Idris... not a trivial little tool at all in my book. I use the "bearing-over-bit' straight cutters for a lot of different operations. I just ordered some myself from woodworker.com. They have about 50 varieties of the bit that you're looking for, but #'s 50-102 and 110-177 will get you to ...

It's taking me forever to belt sand even very small amounts of UHMW side wall after initial trimming on the bandsaw. The literature says that UHMW is more wear resistant than steel, and believe me, it's true. Steel is much easier to belt sand than UHMW. It's got me wondering why I go to all of the b...

I also think that pretty much everyone is using epoxy resin for ski lamination. I have done a lot of testing on the epoxy that I use (from QCM... see the links page on this site) and have been amazed at how strong and flexible it is... if mixed and processed properly. I use the heat cure hardener an...

I also think that pretty much everyone is using epoxy resin for ski lamination. I have done a lot of testing on the epoxy that I use (from QCM... see the links page on this site) and have been amazed at how strong and flexible it is... if mixed and processed properly. I use the heat cure hardener an...

Great ponderings here. It got me thinking, also. I really don't know much about physics, but I do enjoy trying to figure out why physical properties behave the way that they do. So, here goes. Any object in motion represents a certain amount of energy. A pair of skis moving down a hill with a skier ...

It's a good theory. Like many other of us fledgling ski builders, you must lay awake at night and run these things over and over in your head. My sense regarding the approach that you describe and illistrate is that given the relatively small 'sealing' surface of the metal edge (really just the 2mm ...

Hi Schuss, I route a .025 inch deep x 7/16 inch wide groove into the perimeter of the core base (into the bottom surface of the UHMW side wall strips in my construction). For this, I use a 3/4 inch router bushing in my router base and run a 7/16 inch straight router bit with it (a plunge router work...