First full carbon layup and first time on the new press. What could go wrong?!?
Ski cores start out as slabs usually about 12mm thick. To impart different flex characteristics they must be profiled and tapered to very specific thicknesses. Here I use a router on precision engineered rails to take the tip from 2mm up to full thickness under the boot.
3/4” steel tubing cat track provides the even squeeze beneath the pneumatic press. Here’s me threading the bungee cord through over 130 bars. These are the things I think about when people ask how long it takes to make a pair of skis.
Made this board as a wedding gift. It has a quilted Bubinga veneer topsheet, longitudinal and torsional carbon stringers.
Made this board for a trip to BC. It performed better than amazing on untracked powder and about as bad as I expected on hardpack. A good trade-off if you ask me. It has minimal sidecut and a single concave off the tail.
Split version of a powder board I made for BC
Here’s me cutting out core blanks. I routed the sidewall trench to 30mm so I could cut each slice to 15mm and have some wiggle room to plane them flat at 12mm. (3mm is not enough wiggle room if you want this to be a fun process).
I need a router table. This is a router clamped upside down to a workbench. It does the job but the end result has been pretty wobbly. I’m just glad I didn’t get my hair caught in it. Have you noticed I’m wearing the same shirt in all these videos? strange.