i know i know i didn`t ski them, i didn`t try them. BUT first of all it looks to me like "uh, oh, rocker is so hot right now, we gotta have rockered boards, so lets just kink our regular skis and let`s name it in a fancy way!" - this is more of a general rant, there are quite a lot of comp...

just from the look: i bet those skis kick ass in powder. just add a little tapering in tip and tail for the next pair and they`ll ski better than anything else. really sweet rocker, you got the point

those kinks are just retarded, no matter if 3stage rocker or not. powder is not water. and even water doesn`t flow kinked

i`ve got absolutely no experience with poplar... but why don`t you build a testsection? just take a piece of poplar wood, screw in a screw and try to pull it out and you`ll get a feeling of how much it`s going to hold. or just build the skis as planned, mount the binding, if it holds it`s great, oth...

sweet grafics!
i`m also interested to get a little more info on the topsheet and how it holds up!

i can only second that.
and your shape is really funny

how did you do the grafics on the xperimentas? is it printed ricepaper or something like that? looks pretty cool, also with the overlapping papers/white areas

nice! how high are those tips?

me too! looks really nice.
how do the wooden topsheets hold up? in terms of "topsheet chipping" and other damages due to bashit the sidewalls with the edges of the skis while skiing?

looks good! now this cloth looks pretty similar to mine. so hope it holds up this time

build them flat underfoot and only add a little reverse camber in tip and tail - as the armadas have. maybe 5mm reverse or even more on each side. a little difficult to describe as it depends on the lenght of tip and tail too. of course the stiffness depends on the glass too, but i`d suggest you use...

oh dear....

sent you an email

yes, air leakings are a problem, but i was also afraid my vacuum pump would collapse.
1.8kg per ski? this would be quite good for your dimensions

well hi there. as i`m extremely bored right now and as i can`t go skiing i`m actually fooling around. which brought me to the idea of opening a skibuilders.com - facebook group. it`s just half the fun as i`m the only member.... so if anyone else is registered on facebook, feel free to join. hope you...

i use a pneumatic press. there are advantages and disadvantages of it. if you`re fine with vacuum i would keep using vacuum for the beginning. with vacuum it`s easier to change the mold and play around with different sorts of camber and tip/tail radius etc. i just use a pneumatic pressure because i ...