Building your own skis

ok. It didn't give me any information. All i was asking is for people who have experience to help me out
 
Ok, this is going to come over as quite negative, but I'd rather tell this straight than let you find out for yourself in a while.

You need to realise that building your own pair of skis is an immensely difficult challenge that should never be taken lightly. That is not me saying that I don't think you already do, it's just that if you do you'll give it the time and respect that it deserves.

You should:

Read (slowly, don't skim it, every single tiny detail is important) through all of skibuilders.com;

Read (slowly as well) through the whole ski building thread.

There's also a few good threads about presses etc on tgr that you should read.

Then reread all of it, take notes of what is important (clue: everything).

Unless you happen to be an engineer, I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that until you stumbled across skibuilders.com you didn't have a clue how you would go about building skis.

You should always spend (much) more time planning through every single aspect of a project like this than actually doing it. Meticulous attention to detail is required.

Also, someone who could actually do this (such as NSers NinetyFour, Logan Imlach etc who have) should have the initiative to answer most of their questions without asking a forum. See how far you can get on your own, and know as much as there is to know, before coming back with questions. You should then know specific questions, such as 'what epoxy should I use?; or 'should I use bi or tri axial fiberglass?;'.

Another note - home building skis is not something you can do to get cheap skis. You'll probably have to make several pairs before you have a pair that you like for reasons other than sentiment.

Good luck.
 
Thank you for the feedback! i am in the very early stages of it. I just talked to my teacher today so i just starting to take notes etc. +k

 
I'm happy to help if you have questions, I personally loved the project, but there are a few things that you need to know. It is not cheap, and it is not easy. If you want to build skis to get a cheap pair this season (not saying you do), this is not the project for you. This is not a weekend project. Also, be prepared to spend a lot of money. materials are roughly $250 per pair, plus you need a mold and press. When I did it, I think it took roughly 100 man hours to make the first pair. This gets reduced greatly for the second pair, because you know what you are doings, and a lot of the time for the first ones is creating templates.
 
Ski building is typically way out of the scope of something for a school project. Unless you are set on it already and have successfully built a pair before, it will take at least four times the time you think it will take you, if you don't half ass it. Half assign it definitely affects the quality of the ski, to the point that it may not be recognizable or rideable as a ski.
 
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