The all aspen core with white ash sidewalls.
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Hwy. 22 Redux and The Gunship compared against my Volkl Explosiv's
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The Hwy. 22 Redux is 190 cm and 125-103-115.
The Gunship is 190 cm and 154-164-156-139-154 pontoon style.
--Geoff
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The grey areas in the tip and tail are trigger fabric just to cover up the tipspacers and the VDS from pre-attacheng the ABS. White ash is a hardwood with a higher density so it will be good as sidewalls for taking impacts. I recently gouged a big chunk (about 3/8" or 1 cm high by 1" long) out of the plastic sidewall of my Volkl Explosiv, but have had no problems with damage to the white ash I have been using. It bonds really well, but I still rough it up with sandpaper first, and gives good stiffness to the edge of the ski for better torsional properties.plywood wrote:a nice looking pair!
what are these grey areas in tip and tail? did you cover the tipspacers with a special grafic layer?
did you do the ash-sidewalls (as shown on the pic in the post at the top) again? what`s the advantage of this? is ash harder or why did you made them out of other wood?
As can be seen in the pic below (kind of hard to see), I have 6mm of rocker to each tip starting at the widest point of the reverse sidecut in the front. From there, I have 8mm regular camber for the remainder of the ski. No tail Rocker.mattym wrote: on your pontoon style ski did you use any rocker or reverse camber? Or normal camber?
I pressed these skis at 30psi opposed to the 40psi I was using on my previous pairs. The decreased pressure didn't affect the press quality of the ski, and prevented the fiberglass from imprinting up through the topsheet.G-man wrote:Top sheets look very smooth.
No deflection when pressing, camber came out where I wanted it. I pressed at 180 deg F top and bottom for 20 min with 10 minutes of cool down under pressure. I put a post up giving the rundown of when I did my deflection testing in college in ben_mtl's press build thread (http://www.skibuilders.com/phpBB2/viewt ... 7&start=45). I will re-link the old pictures when I get on days off from work.shopvac wrote:skis look clean. Nice work as usual. Do you get any deflection when pressing? A lot of your earlier photos don't work any more. If I ever build another press, it will be very similar to your design.