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Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 1:42 pm
by SleepingAwake
So, cores are milled
In the making:
Tip spacer:
Hardpoint for the binding:
There will be an additional layer of fiberglass in the pocket between hard wood and balsa.
Weight of the core with hardpoints is 530g for 150/124/132 x 1890mm. 580 with tip and tail spacers. How much does one of your cores weight?
Cheers, Reto
Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 12:35 am
by SleepingAwake
Epic fail: printed the wrong version of the design which wasn't mirrored and realized it just now when it is too late to redo the whole story...
... Shit happens... Cheers, Reto
Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 3:30 am
by skidesmond
SleepingAwake wrote:So, cores are milled
There will be an additional layer of fiberglass in the pocket between hard wood and balsa.
Weight of the core with hardpoints is 530g for 150/124/132 x 1890mm. 580 with tip and tail spacers. How much does one of your cores weight?
Cheers, Reto
My current set of cores weigh in at 3330g total with ash stringers and ipe wood sidewalls un-shaped. This set of cores are way heavier than normal.
I like your idea of cutting out a piece for the hardwood insert. Nice touch.
Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 4:37 am
by SleepingAwake
That's how it's recommended by Bcomp. Either mill a pocket and put hard wood or a cotton/phenolic resin plate in there, or just use an additional sheet of titanal.
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 12:52 pm
by SleepingAwake
Ok, finished them this weekend. Need to get the base sanded and mount a binding. I'm pretty happy how they turned out for the second pair.
1800g a ski, just 10g weight difference between the two. flex seems to be pretty good. maybe a little too stiff in torsion for such a powdergun.
Cheers, Reto
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 2:37 pm
by vinman
Looks good, nice work.
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 2:50 pm
by Drew
so dope
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 7:07 pm
by Sotto
looks great!
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 7:19 pm
by MontuckyMadman
Whats the "hardwood" looks like mdf?
Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 11:54 am
by SleepingAwake
Are you referring to the sidewalls? they are made of European beech. works well so far and was used by others before.
some action pics over here:
http://www.skibuilders.com/phpBB2/viewt ... 2712#42712
Cheers, Reto
Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 12:25 pm
by MontuckyMadman
No the binding insert areas you call hardwood it looks like composite wood.
Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 12:38 pm
by SleepingAwake
nope that's 4mm birch plywood. the good quality with the .5mm veneers...
Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 1:51 pm
by falls
They look great
The backwards logo topsheet actually looks really cool. Everyone would think you did it on purpose.
Did you paint the sidewalls blue?
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 3:00 am
by SleepingAwake
Yes, painted the sidewall. I used acrylic paint where I added quite a bit of water. Then I painted everything and whipped it of after a few minutes with a paper towel. So it's blue but the wood grain is still visible.
I like the looks, but I have to say its not very durable. There are already some lighter spots on the sidewall... The wood itself looks still good though!