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Out of the press after a bunch of hours, I had the top sheet on this pair printed even though it is quite boring per my wife. I told her she can put anything on the next pair, hoping for some rocket ships.
Top sheet right out of the press
Bases right out of the press
Next step is cutting out the individual skis, pretty much run the jig saw along the edge, just don’t cut the edge. The base is the only thing in the lay up that is the finish shape of the ski, so that is used for cutting the ski to shape.
Cutting out the shape
The final step before mounting and a tune is to bevel the sidewalls, I used the home made router table from a few posts ago with a bottom bearing 7 degree bevel bit. This puts a nice taper on the side walls and helps keep the top sheet from chipping while skiing.
Final shape, I wanted to weigh them but I forgot before I put bindings on them.
Finished [emoji736]They are mounted and tuned with one day on them so far.
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I would argue that Este's has the best pizza in SLC, and they have a Sugarhood location so you should be pretty close. Or go to the downtown shop and order a whole pie, and shoot across the street to Johnny's for a beer while waiting for it.
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On 1/8/2021 at 10:00 PM, Schif said:
Day 2. Snowbird.
On this solo run I hopped off the cat track pretty early and dove down through some fun steeps and wound up in a pretty gnarly and narrow chute that came out of nowhere.
Claimed by shit chute, lol. That damn thing just pops out of nowhere sometimes.
Damn I miss 50-60 day seasons at bird, time for a move!
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Stellar day, fun tour with Jeff to start it off. An early uphill lap always makes me feel like I did something besides drink beers with the boys. The early laps were great, lift lines got a little rowdy but that’s part of skiing Vail East. Let’s do that again before the end of the season, maybe with a few additional friends!
Got to test out the new skis as well, not spot on but much more fun than the last pair. More on that to come.
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Just dropped them off at the shop for a tune, know it all ski tech behind the counter gave me a good laugh while filling out the paper work.
Ski tech: What brand and model skis are they?
Me: ummmm, idk.
Ski tech: most people around here dont know what kind of skis they have..
Me: ...........lol.........
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16 minutes ago, GSSucks said:
Apparently Im to slow at editing so you will have to deal with double the pictures for some text.
16 minutes ago, GSSucks said:The night before I pressed I attached the tip and tail fill to the core, then cleaned everything with rubbing alcohol and flammed the sidewalls. Furthermore I waxed the cassette with a mold release wax so the skis dont bond to the mold and I also use a few small dabs of super glue to attach the bases to the cassette in the correct location so everything lines up during layup. I like to have everything ready before I start mixing epoxy, I have about an hour to get everything in the press before the epoxy flashes and the skis are garbage.
Attaching the tip and tail fill with super glue.
Stacking everything in reverse order of what I will need it after cutting all the glass.
Mid layup, core ready for wetting with epoxy.
Mid layup, carbon stringers and carbon reinforcement on the tip and tail fill.
Press pressure. I was planning on pressing at 50 psi but I over shot that when adjusting the regulator so I just went with it. This is the highest I have ever had the press. It did deflect a bit and I lost a bit of camber out of the ski but I still have enough so it was a worthwhile test for the mold and the press.
Pressing. I press for 8 hours and I put a space heater in the room. At the end of the press it was ~95 degrees in there. The cure time to solid for the epoxy is 6 hours at 72 degrees so I over shoot that a bit for good measure.
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11 hours ago, Johnny Law said:
Absolute titty sparkles ! Your core work is amazing ! A person could make good skis and never rabbet the tips and tails, your getting super high level !!!
If you ever want to make any ski in your head for others I'll gladly commission a pair. Whatever you want to make.
Thanks man! It seems like there is a line forming, Ill add you to the list. Its amazing how many friends you have when you start building skis lol.
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I was mostly ready to press after adding the rabbet to the core, I just needed to cut some glass and carbon so I pulled the press out and pressure tested it to make sure I did not have any leaks. I hit about 30 psi and I could hear air leaking so I knew I had some work to do. I used wood to crimp the ends of the fire hose when I built the press mainly because wood is much easier to work with than steel. I guess it was not quite enough, so I put on my big boy pants and started cutting and drilling steel.
Original crimp to close off the fire hose.
The way it should have been done originally.
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14 hours ago, AtomicSkier said:
Haven’t banned anyone in awhile. That felt good. Carry on.
No need to flex, he can be free.
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1 minute ago, skiincy said:
suppose to snow on Thursday night. We have Bird reservations for Thursday and Friday. (Fingers crossed)
Better get there early.
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This affects about 4 people on this site, and it does not seem like any of said people are really bothered by it. Just more BS posted by GSS to rack up posts.
Rack it, bitch
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So last pair I kind of skipped this step because I was very nervous about doing it, I was also nervous about doing it this time but figured I needed to figure it out eventually. In the tip and tail the sidewall ends up being about 1.5mm thick and it could easily rip off or break adding this rabbet. I built this router table with custom back stop to add a rabbet to the core to keep the bases of the skis flatter when they are pressed. If you scroll up a few posts you can see how the teeth of the edge are on top of the base, thats how they are attached and what keeps them in place. Adding the rabbit takes some of the pressure off the edges and keeps you from pressing edge high. Its kind of hard to explain maybe I will add a picture later.
router table
Router bit with back stop, so the sidewall is run down the backstop and the bit takes about .5mm of material off the bottom of the sidewall and a small portion of the base.
a picture of the rabbet for reference.
The core and sidewall get pretty thin in the tip and tail.
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So life got a little busy, then it snowed and I wanted to ski tour so I took a bit of a break on working on these. They are now out of the press and deflashed. Im pretty sure I am going to have some issues on this pair but time will tell as I ski them I guess. Its a really fun and interesting learning experience for me.
Shaped core, tip and tail fill with sidewalls before attaching anything.
Attaching the sidewalls to the core, just some simple super glue and clamps.
This shows the bottom of the core after the sidewalls have been attached, I used a new method to attach the core blank to the profiling jig and it worked out really well. Tape the bottom of the core, and also tape the jig and use super glue to glue the tape together, it easily comes apart which is critical when the core gets thin.
Core blank glued on the profile jig.
Core after it is profiled, on this pair the core is 8mm thick under foot and tapers to 2mm in the tip and the tail. The tip and tail fill that I buy is also 2mm thick so it all lays up very nicely.
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Sucks that you wont be there for Pie & Beer day....
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How often do they groom HighBoy each day? Does HighBoy have the moguls? Should I rent smaller RTMs for that trail? Sometimes I get nervous skiing a groomed trail with moguls on the side and my intense breathing fogs up my goggles.
High boy is groomed hourly, it’s a popular ski trail.
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Hog wash, go to Alta and ski the High T to gun sight followed by the High T to HighBoy to end the day, then have a beer on the deck. The next day go to Bird and ski the Cirque to elevator then rats nest to hanging bowl on the next lap then go directly to the tram bar and order the local and tell everyone how rad you are.
On second thought, stay in PC you’ll love it on that side of the hill.
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It’s been a bit, all ready for an early morning press.
I’ll fill in the back story of this pair later, I did some new and extra steps, hopefully they turn out.
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Did you google earth new terrain or were you somewhat familiar with the area? Assume more good snow than f@ck/sh@t snow? Impressive day nonetheless
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Just did some research, gotta do the work to get the goods. Snow was awesome, much more good snow than shit snow. Hopefully we get some more bigger storms or a few back to back on that area. Lots of potential!
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Drove right past Hunter today and ended up doing a fun little tour in the Catskills, ended up with about 4k of vert and found a truck that was the drive for a lift in the 60’s
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A bunch of people XC ski at Camp Olympic and at the Emmaus recycling Center on the CX course.
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I got the edges glued on both bases last night, I should be starting on the cores tonight. To get to this point on the first pair I had about 12 hours into the skis, I have about 1.5 hours in total into this pair so far. The second pair is going so much better with all the things I learned from the first pair.
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Got bases cut last night, hoping to get edges on tonight. I’m still planning on having them finished by year end to ski in early 2021 if ski season is still a thing in 2021.
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14 hours ago, saltyant said:
I think Cottonwood Heights is where I'm going to stay. At Winter Park I was getting big bargains on Liftopia, but one day out of 4 the deal wasn't available.
I can give you a phone number to call to pick up passes from the 7-11 at the bottom of BCC. Call said guy the night before, send him the money via Venmo and pick up the pass from the electrical box behind the 7-11 in the morning. You wont find a better deal.
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A great way to waste time and money
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Thanks everyone, glad you are enjoying the content if it ever gets old or boring let me know. I will do one additional post on this pair and then I think it will be on to the next pair. This has been an awesome learning experience and I am really enjoying it a lot. Its fun to get creative!