...sounds like a cool idea about prebending the wood core. I had a huge problem today while doing a layup with my stiff core not wanting to lay down into the mold too well. I ended up having to karate kick my mold into the press. :? Pre-bening the cores makes pressing much easier. Now I have a nice...

endre wrote:if you ever tryed putting your tele bindings on the wrong way (left ski on right foot etc), you have tryed duck on tele.

No, you haven't.
Shifting left with right does not move the forefoot closer to the edges. Duck stance does.

I could finally test them. Last summer I built a pair of reverse camber-sidecut skis (105-108-96) and I mounted the binding with duck stance: 3.7 degrees, rotation point is 10 cm from the 3 pin line. I tested the skis 10 days ago on hard snow (Macugnaga), and few days ago in powder (Myoko Kogen and ...

... because you don't have a wooden core, steel edges, rubber, base and all those other materials which should fit perfectly together, ... Plain vacuume in short: Great for the soft stuff, not quite enough power and too precise for the stiff stuff. Vacuum is no problem for skis. Just pre-bend the c...

I suppose that every tree, if grown in an intense way, will have negative effect on the enviroment. In any Country it is possible to find local woods with great properties for ski-building, without looking for exotic woods. Balsa is the only one that has no equivalent in the Northern emisphere. Am I...

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.... duckstance i mounted the bindings 3° duck on each side, shifted around the centermark. i did several "experiments" trying to elaborate how duck i stand. so i stood for maybe 2h back at home in my skiing boots, walked, stood still, measured the angle and such stuff. the angles ranged ...

What is this bone glue you used? Where did you find this stuff? Is it easy to use? I'm disappointed, because the guy with the basalt fabric do not ship overseas. I found another adress in Europe (Georgia), but not sure they will sell few meters of it. Bamboo fabric seems to be time consuming and pr...

In the park skis, you can use biax glass (300 or 400 g/m2 over the whole length): they will be easier to turn. UD glass is stronger in compression than UD carbon, so you should use carbon UD tape only between base and core in the park pair. In the giant pair, you could put only one layer (either upp...

Ah, I fogot... This summer I did a small test. I glued a piece of wood core (15cm X 5cm), juta fabric (plain 600g/m2), edge and base (polietilene, not yet found an eco alternative) using bone glue. It looks quite solid. Not easy to delaminate. Just have to find a substitute for the plastic base (may...

I think it will be not easy for me to come, unless you will choose Muikamachi Hakkai-san, Nozawa Onsen or Kusatsu as location. I will be in Europe from the 23rd of December till the 1st of January. In my opinion a small place is perfect for this kind of happening; it will not be very much about powd...

mark wrote:Is glass not "eco-friendly"?

Well, making glass fiber (and balsat fibers as well) requires a lot of energy (high temperature processing), and thus a lot of CO2 emissions.
Vegetale fibers have a negative CO2 balance and much less energy is required in the processing.

plywood wrote:you`re bringing the whole thing onto the next level! sadly whistler is a bit far away for me

You should organise the European one, in Hoch-Ybrig.
Anyway both places are too far for me.

This are my lightest ones. 110-80-99 mm, length 178 cm, weight: 1.1Kg (per ski). Super soft flex, 10mm camber. Ash woodcore (by Ludovic Lacroix) 3 mm thick at tip and 11 mm thick in the center. Reinforcement: bottom layer: carbon UD 200g/m2 and biax (38.5°) 250 g/m2; top layer: carbon biax (45°) 250...

David, how do you say "racaille" in Züridüütsch?