ON3P Skis

Mine too. If they were mounted with orange and black dildo heel rossi bindings those would be mine. Rode them today and jumped off pretty much everything I could find, these things are fucking serious. You know when people say "These have a ton of pop"? These skis redefine pop, I was trying to ollie onto things and completely overshooting them. If Scott does the same with the park skis then holy shit.
 
This is still one of the best threads i've ever read.

Stoked i just went through all the pics and info again - Scott, I hope you get to make some $ out of this one day
 
sorry if it was mentioned earlier, but i didnt have time to read through the whole thread

Your stuff is sick, i am so impressed. I do have a ton of questions though. How much does one pair of skis actually cost to make? how much did all the equiptment cost all together (saws, press, all that good stuff). How realistic is this dream? i've always wanted to make my own skis, i had seen someone else do it (not nearly as sick as yours) and it didnt seem that crazy, he had access to lots of equiptment being an engineer major, but your project seems like it took a ton of time and effort.

once again, tons of props to you, you guys really imspired me
 
You could make a pair for as little as about $100 I would think, but if you are doing small quantity with good/unique materials, it will cost 2-3 times that easily.

There is the press, which was a couple grand, plus the tools, also a couple grand. You could do it smaller and get everything for maybe 2-3k though. We were way over that....

How realistic is it to build skis? anyone with the time, money, and commitment can do it. Take it past that? Hard to say.

It takes a lot of time and effort. it is paying off though.
 
Depends on tons of stuff. The way we were doing it....I dunno....15-20

hours/pair? Something like that. It will be a lot faster when we get out our new

shop up and running though.
 
dude, that is the coolest thing ever. you should make shorter lengths though, like down to 160ish. i would so buy a pair of fat, center mounted, rockered twins in like a 170. or park skis or whatever in a 160. that is the coolest thing ever though
 
there is going to be a number of shorter skis next year. Not sure with the small volume we will probably sell if we can afford to go down to 160, but there will be....

171/181cm blue steele - symmetrical park - 85 underfoot

171/181cm jeronimo - rockered park/all mountain ski - 96 underfoot

171/181/191cm caylor - rockered pow ski - 120 underfoot

Possibly 166/176/186cm billy goat - tapered all mountain/pow ski - 115 underfoot

Possibly a 176/186cm JBS - all mountain directional -104 underfoot

191cm Great Scott - baby killer pow ski - 126 underfoot

181cm/191cm wrenegade - variable snow, comp ski - 113 underfoot
 
Still working out the fine-tuning on the flex for each, that's what testing is for. Which ski are you wondering about?
 
New Jeronimo will be medium flex. I think that is a bit relative to me, since I like stiff stuff. It will just be a nice round, medium flex, soft enough to butter, but stiff enough to cruise with no issue.

Caylor will be similar. It will be a bit size dependent, as the 191 will be a bit beefier than the 181. I would put it at medium-stiff. WAY stiffer than EP and stiffer than hellbent.

Great Scott is for killing babies, so expect it to be stiff, but not super super stff. Stiff nonetheless.
 
Great Scott is fucking beeeeefy, quite stiff. Jeronimo is on the softer side. I have the caylor. They are currently a medium flex which is what gives them this amazing springyness, they are somewhat stiffer than Hellbents and don't feel as damp. That will get a LITTLE softer to make them somewhat lighter, changing the layup, but not a ton, so they won't lose the pop they have.
 
To date, I have skied ON3P more days than not, and these rockered, nearly centered twin tips have yet to chatter on groomers or fail me in the park or riding BC.

I love them.

So very much.
 
It's so exciting to see the whole process that you used. My threads so I can remember to show this to other people later on.
 
i threw my dad's billygoats sideways on a banked wall, and they seriously sprung back with such a huge pop that took me airborne - which i was not expecting. it blew me away. super crazy feeling most likely due to the bamboo core and the shape of those skis. but he don't let me ride them no more.
 
agreed and agreed.

after skiing on these for a season, i never want to have to go back to other skis. the caylor, is the most amazing ski i've ever ridden. it's exponentially better than the hellbent in terms of pop, weight, swing weight...

it's pretty much a light, rockered, charging ski that won't chatter and won't squirrel out on you if want to hit a 20+ footer at unreasonable speeds and still be able to pop and frolic around in pow fields.
 
I ride the 185 Jeronimos in the park, and on lighter soft snow days. They are so fun.
super poppy, but they don't feel uncomfortable and jumpy when I'm charging shitty snow on them. It's really amazing to have a ski that is super damp and at the same time super lively and poppy, I don't know how it works.
Skied the Caylors, and they are amazing. A more solid, poppier, lighter version of the hellbent.
 
hi i am looking into making my own skis as well but probably not on the same scale as you. I was just wondering what the simplest type of ski press i could build is?
 
you've taken over a small eastern european country with localized militia and a hoard of nuclear warheads that you've stockpiled over the past 14 years?
 
dude these are so sick my friend cal makes skis. the first couple pairs were pretty noodle-y park skis (but still sick) and now he and his roomate are making awesome fat skis. I dont think he has made as many pairs as you. Props man these skis are so sick. how long does it take to make one pair? How many skis can you press at once?
 
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