Any idea what custom ski company made these?

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Just picked these 2 pairs for 25 bucks. mounted once, never ridden, sound like they were used as a background prop on some sort of advertising commercial. I thiiiiiink they might be folsoms? just trying to put some feelers out so I can have a better idea of mount point, drill size, etc.

very very rough dimensions are (measured with a tape measure)

170cm - 126/101/126 ish. feels quite stiff.

146cm 108/ 90ish/108
 
Really hard to tell - is there sidewall?

If not - is it possible they are custom community skis out of mammoth? Only sparkcell I can find is in San Diego. There’s a spark mobile in NZ but logo and colors are totally different
 
All cap construction. I bought them from the back of some old guy’s truck in mira Mesa San Diego.

14537448:BradFiAusNzCoCa said:
Really hard to tell - is there sidewall?

If not - is it possible they are custom community skis out of mammoth? Only sparkcell I can find is in San Diego. There’s a spark mobile in NZ but logo and colors are totally different
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These don’t look fucked up enough to be community haha

14537448:BradFiAusNzCoCa said:
Really hard to tell - is there sidewall?

If not - is it possible they are custom community skis out of mammoth? Only sparkcell I can find is in San Diego. There’s a spark mobile in NZ but logo and colors are totally different
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So update:

Heard back from folsom skis, definitely NOT a custom job on their end.

They suggested that these are a 'white label' ski from one of the various chinese factories, which wouldn't really surprise me.

I'm just gonna mount them up and have my brother test them out- can't complain too much for a $12.50 ski on the 170cms
 
Contact spark cell if you really want to know

14538170:lastskier said:
So update:

Heard back from folsom skis, definitely NOT a custom job on their end.

They suggested that these are a 'white label' ski from one of the various chinese factories, which wouldn't really surprise me.

I'm just gonna mount them up and have my brother test them out- can't complain too much for a $12.50 ski on the 170cms
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14538170:lastskier said:
So update:

Heard back from folsom skis, definitely NOT a custom job on their end.

They suggested that these are a 'white label' ski from one of the various chinese factories, which wouldn't really surprise me.

I'm just gonna mount them up and have my brother test them out- can't complain too much for a $12.50 ski on the 170cms
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this made me laugh as I too have had my brother try suspect skis out before
 
14540296:SofaKingSick said:
how's the flex? do they feel cheap? just curious

i'd be thrilled to try a $12.50 ski lol sounds perfect
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The flex on the 170cm one is pretty stiff- feels like they have some metal underfoot. they don't feel too cheap, like they feel a lot nicer than the old CAP atomics (triplets) and Armadas that I've had experience with.
 
14540301:lastskier said:
The flex on the 170cm one is pretty stiff- feels like they have some metal underfoot. they don't feel too cheap, like they feel a lot nicer than the old CAP atomics (triplets) and Armadas that I've had experience with.
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interesting! wouldn't've guessed that
 
14540305:SofaKingSick said:
interesting! wouldn't've guessed that
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I guess I'll find out for sure when i drill into them- just a bit more resistance than i would have expected.

that being said, the triplets I had experience with were CAP and foam core, and those foam cores would break down so so fast
 
14540310:lastskier said:
I guess I'll find out for sure when i drill into them- just a bit more resistance than i would have expected.

that being said, the triplets I had experience with were CAP and foam core, and those foam cores would break down so so fast
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the triplets were such a weird product haha
 
some of those promo skis are just totally fake foam core props. I'd be careful ripping on those.
 
14540361:TWoods said:
some of those promo skis are just totally fake foam core props. I'd be careful ripping on those.
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I know it’s a different foam but Salomon did market ‘foam core’ Teneightys back in the day…
 
Yea those sucked too lol. But they’d last at least for a while before falling apart or breaking. Some Of these prop skis could probably break hand flexing, but you’d know it they were that bad before you skied them

when they were mounted… probably… depending on how competent the shop is.

14541898:RudyGarmisch said:
I know it’s a different foam but Salomon did market ‘foam core’ Teneightys back in the day…
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Thread update- drilled one pair and mounted some old Rossi bindings on them.

they’re definitely wood core, metal underfoot where the bindings are mounted. Feel solid, but I won’t have any performance updates until next season.

in other news, clearing out the garage and found my folks old original pocket rockets. Pretty sure the foam cores are disintegrated, but I might center mount the 185’s for next season.

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