Building Skis

TwinTipRider

TwinTipRider

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I am going to build my own skis I have taken lots of time and thought about how I’m going to do this. I have talked to people such as engineers, tech teachers, and I have been reading about carbon fiber and glue adhesives. My plan is to start from scratch and build a ski. I am posting this to tell every one my plan and to get suggestions on what you think I am doing wrong or now I could improve some of my plan … ok so the plan is to maple and mahogany to build the inner core with 50% rashio. I want a 80mm under foot for floating pow and riding decent park/pipe. I am going to steam the wood to bend the tips to the correct height. I have found online dealers in Canada that will sell me carbon fiber just plane white and to put graphics on them the cheapest way is to just get an artist to draw them on with a magic marker. I have been told it will stay on the ski fine and should never come off. The glue I have been told to use is water thin and works with the carbon and the wood to hold together. I can get hold of petex to fill the bottom with my only real concern on what I don’t know what to do it now to build in a steel edge if any one has build either skis or a snowboard pleas contact me and tell me the do’s and don’ts thanks. In a couple months I should have finished and will post pics of my creation. Thanks for your time!

Fight the power Line skis since 1995!!

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oh so thats what you call a getaway well tell me what you got away with cuz i'v seen more spine in a gelly fish i'v seen more guts in an 11 year old kid. have another drink and drive your self home .i hope there is ice on all the roads. so you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt . and again whn you'r head smashes thro the winsheald .

 
all i have to say is good luck idk how you have the patients

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^^ yeah you need lots of patients to build skis, only god knows if they have health insurance cuz you dont want to get sued

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ya seriously youre gonna need ridiculous patience. and dont expect ur first pair to be nice.

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make it a bit fatter, 82mm, thats all I got.

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I'm only building one pair . for my self i dont think any company is going to sue me because a 16 year old kid built 1 pair for him self as a project. lol

Fight the power Line skis since 1995!!

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oh so thats what you call a getaway well tell me what you got away with cuz i'v seen more spine in a gelly fish i'v seen more guts in an 11 year old kid. have another drink and drive your self home .i hope there is ice on all the roads. so you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt . and again whn you'r head smashes thro the winsheald .

 
I'm not expecting any thing from my first pair. and maybe i will go a bit fatter like 85mm .

Fight the power Line skis since 1995!!

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oh so thats what you call a getaway well tell me what you got away with cuz i'v seen more spine in a gelly fish i'v seen more guts in an 11 year old kid. have another drink and drive your self home .i hope there is ice on all the roads. so you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt . and again whn you'r head smashes thro the winsheald .

 
your thinking about building a ski without using real ski materials. honestly, dont even bother. there is SO much that goes into a ski.

If you really want to do this, youll need a press, first and formost. wether it is a vacuum, hydraulic, mechanical, ect. also, carbon fiber is NOT WHITE. your are looking at fiberglass. what kinds of weight and weave patterns do you need? the wood you are planning on useing is also not very desirable. those are solid woods, but they are HEAVY! you need to figure out if you want a sinterred or extruded base, and all that. edges are glued to the die cut base, and the core is then layed up with the fiberglass, and topsheets. oh yeah, your also gonna need sidewalls, because a cap construction requires a ton of prepwork. how about VBS? these are rubber strips layed up above the edges that help issolate vibrations. and graphics with a sharpie are retarded. THey will not last. and building the core itself is a ton of work. trust me pal, i want to build skis, but until i have the resources to manufacture large numbers of them, its not gonna happen. unless your gonna invest a good chunk of money, your gonna end up with one pair of crappy skis, and be about 1-2 grand in the hole. there is SO much that goes into the design of a ski. you cannot do it unless you have a strong base of knowledge with the materials used and how they react with the forces applyied to them.

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oh yeah, let me lay down some basics on what makes a ski work the way it does:

Topsheet: clear plastic, the graphics are silkscreened on the bottom. some times they use white, and subliminate them into the top few molocules of the plastic. these get scratched off and look crappy.

fiberglass: usually, its triaxle, which means the fibers run in 0, 90, and 45 degrees. composites only have strenght in the directions the fibers run, and triaxle provides strenght up and down the ski, and diagonally, toward the edges. biaxle creates a much softer ski torsionally, which could be benificial for a park ski. heavier wghts will have more material, and be stiffer. also, the ski is build with epoxy resin. not some off the shelf glue from DIY. (oh yeah, the less epoxy, the lighter the ski, cause its the heaviest thing in the ski, and thats why a good press is important)

the core:

you want to use good wood. you cannot have knots or imurities in the grain. thats why skis are built with a vertically laminated core; it gives them a plank of solid wood without having to scrap a ton of bad wood. again, the more strips, the more epoxy is used, the heavier the ski. also, the camber and contour of the core is veryimportant. machinging this stuff is not easy either.

theres a layer of glass under the core

the base is cut out in the shape of the ski. the edges are glued on, usually at every three or four tabs, cause when the ski is laid up, the epoxy holds it in. a rubber strip is usually built in abouve the edge and inside the sidewall to minimize vibrations. not all skis have these, but they are reccomended.

sidewalls:

most skis use ABS, but that doesnt take impacts or flexing as well as PTEX, so skis like 4frnts use that. it is also much easier to repair.

anyway, you really dont have much of an idea of what your doing, and i wouldnt recoomend throwning away your money.

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some douche at school told me he makes straigh skis with no sidecut out of pure glass, and he says u fly, he also smokes crack(not lying)

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I will laugh when it costs as much or more to build a shitty pair of skis than it would to buy some really good ones.

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wat a frikkin waste of time!!!

if your making only 1 pair for yourself itd be a lot more economical to jus buy some dont you think?

maybe if your friends wer buying some from you or you were starting a small business, but all that work for 1 pair of skis?

i wouldnt even bother.

 
i know a kid whose schools shop class just bought a snowboard press so im gunna go use it. + they now distributers and are buying abunch of materials so it will be pretty cheap. i want to make some super fatties like a 190cm 168-150-160. now that would be dope.

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ok so ive never built a pair of skis but give the guy a break, it sounds like he knows what hes talking about and some people like to feel like they've accomplished something that makes them feel stoked. I'd make a ski just to say I have and as a project that I would look forward to.

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You can build skis if you really take your time with it. First of all the best way to get the CORRECT materials is to go to a small ski or snowboard company in your area and ask if you can buy some materials. I'm not sure where you're from but I've talked to some manufacturers in Salt Lake and they were pretty cool about selling materials to individual consumers. You should be mainly concerned about getting base and edge materials only. Epoxy can be bought from boat shops and you can actually just use a coat of fiberglass or carbon fiber as your topsheet if you're trying to cut costs. Just make sure you make some test pieces before you blow all your money trying to make a ski on the first try. But your major problem is the press. It's a lot more difficult to make one than it sounds whether it's a vacumm or pneumatic press. I can give you more information if you need it but I won't write an essay here.

 
Ok so i dont know every thing about building skis but thats what happins the first time you do it . and maybe i will end up bying patents if i want to start a small company in time .. i do know people who know what they are doing and i'm getting help iam not just going to start not knowing any think and it might take a year .

Fight the power Line skis since 1995!!

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oh so thats what you call a getaway well tell me what you got away with cuz i'v seen more spine in a gelly fish i'v seen more guts in an 11 year old kid. have another drink and drive your self home .i hope there is ice on all the roads. so you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt . and again whn you'r head smashes thro the winsheald .

 
the substitute for a press is very simple. all you need is some spare wood and several clamps. sandwich your ski inbetween 2 pieces of wood and clamp it every 6' or so. be sure to clamp each tip seperatly. building a homemade ski is possible ive seen it done with low budge materials that you wouldnt even think would be possible to build a ski out of. if u have any questions just msg me man peace out and good luck.

 
kyle lol didnt even know i was responding to your forum lol but ya i saw a guy on the net who made a homemade ski outta crazy materials and it was so sic. i dont know how long it lasted though but im definatly going to try it

 
home made skis are a waste of time, you do need a press, and it does need to be unbelievably hot. you need real edges that come on a roll, and you need base material, not ptex, the base will crack and fall apart if you just melt ptex into it. you could make a really cool wall ornament with what you are describing, but it would fall apart and suck as a functional ski.

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go check this outhttp://students.washington.edu/seanr2/stumpysticks/front.html

its a kid from seattle on here that made his own skis this year.

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dude fuck these hatin bitches and do it there is the guy above and five pages of info on the tgr boards about building you own skis on-line places to buy shit too dude built a pair of carbon fiber fatties for 400$$

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I think that guy who built his own skis got the edges from k2. I'm pretty sure they just gave them to him for free.

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