Boston globe aritcle

[Getpoolside]

For my highschool senior project i made my own homebuilts. At the end of the year everyone has to present their project to a panel and to fellow students. A boston globe representative sat in on my presentation and one other students. here's the article

http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2008/05/11/students_soar_with_essential_questions/?p1=email_to_a_friend

my skis were 182cm 115-82-115 fully symetrical with 15mm of camber and a 19m turning radius. core is 1" laminated poplar.

layup:

p-tex base with edges

VDS rubber strips

22 oz. triaxial fiberglass

poplar core

22 oz. triaxial fiberglass

cloth graphic

clear topsheet

here are the skis right out of the press befor all of the excess materials were trimmed off

 

[Klick_2_klaim]

cool, but you didnt make rockers... are you a narc?

 

[fsscott]

Props on makin your own skis, Make like a superlight park ski haha

 

[jimmer]

nice work. keep that up.

 

[bigwhite.steeze]

sick job dude, how long did that take ya?

 

[pag]

nicejob

 

[meggers]

thats sooo awesome! congrats dude! is that pic of you??

 

[Grube]

thats tight

 

[Getpoolside]

After all of the research was done it probably took about 2 months. It would have taken longer if i wasn't able to use a CNC router to profile the core.
And yes that is me in the picture, pretty embarrassing. They caught me mid sentence.

 

[Obsessedwski]

sweet man props

could you post pics of the finished product?

 

[ForestryIs8nice]

nice shirt brah- nah jus clownin. kudos

 

[BravoWhiskey5280]

Props..I wish I knew how to do that

 

[anthony_B]

Very ambitious... Congrats on building your own skis. Are you gonna post any pics up of the finished product. I would love to see how they turned out.

 

[skodeo7]

Sweeet dude, nice job!

 

[sugarloaf]

caleb! get out thats ILLL!!!

 

[Getpoolside]

Here's some pictures of the final product. i'll try and get some better ones up soon

 

[skiEER]

damn those look very good for your first pair