A great way to waste time and money

[GSSucks]

1 hour ago, AtomicSkier said:

Holy shit they look like skis!  Can I hand flex them before @Justo8484 does?

Sure

23 minutes ago, eaf said:

Wow, they look fantastic. I wish I could see the faces of folks where you're gonna be tuning these.

Are the binding pieces from two different sets?

Did I miss the part where you glued the bases? Or is the orange sheet it? What's that black strip in the middle, some sort of carbon?

And the variable thickness, is that due to the wood profile or epoxy alone? How did you even shape it that way?

Just the color way of the bindings. The orange sheet is the base, black strip is a carbon stringer. 

The core is profiled to a thickness, under the bindings it is 11mm in thickness, it tapers down to 3.6mm in the tip and 2.6mm in the tail. It took some magic and a jig for my router to make the profile. 

 

Thanks for the support everyone, already planning the next pair! 

[AtomicSkier]

2 hours ago, GSSucks said:

Thanks for the support everyone, already planning the next pair! 

Can this one be the @AtomicSkier pro model?

[GSSucks]

31 minutes ago, AtomicSkier said:

Can this one be the @AtomicSkier pro model?

Sure, you give me ski dimensions but I design the top sheet. 

[AtomicSkier]

2 hours ago, GSSucks said:

Sure, you give me ski dimensions but I design the top sheet. 

Will it involve pictures of your broken thumb?

[GSSucks]

25 minutes ago, AtomicSkier said:

Will it involve pictures of your broken thumb?

Yup

[Mixilplix]

I was wondering how you profiled the core...Post a pic of the jig if you still have it..Maybe source a band saw to cut the epoxy off of the edge next time....A drill press with a sanding drum would be the tits for getting the rest...Looks like nice work.....I wonder how vinyl wrap would work as a top sheet..Easy to change...

.And it will be the shit when someone asks where you got them and you say "I made em".....

[GSSucks]

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[GSSucks]

13 minutes ago, GSSucks said:

The router sits on the sled and the router has a straight cut bit that is 1" in diameter. Its a plunge router so I can set the initial height and then that stays set to the thickness I want under foot or the thickest part of the ski. The bit goes thru the square hole and can be moved left and right to essentially make a planer out of a router. 

Its kind of hard to see but where the sled is in the above picture the side rails on the jig are about 15mm off the bottom of the jig, at the far end of the jig the side rails are about 6mm off the bottom of the jig. I use double sided tape to attach the core to the bottom of the jig and then take passes back and forth or lengthwise to the core. As the sled follows the profile of the rails the thickness of the core is thinned in the tip and tail. 

 Does any of that make sense? 

 

If this all continues, I will need to tool up with more tools, I was trying to use what I have and not buy additional tools for the first pair. I pretty much used the minimal number of tools possible I would say. I have a router, jig saw, belt sander and a small pancake compressor that were used on this project. A band saw and a drum sander would be a huge help, along with a planer for profiling the cores. All hopefully things to come! 

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[mbike-ski]

that's pretty ingenious, did you engineer that?

[GSSucks]

that's pretty ingenious, did you engineer that?

I guess you could say that, a few years ago I built our dining room table from a slab of sycamore that was 40”x7’. Most planers are not big enough for a slab that size so it is common practice to use something similar to the above to flatten the slab. I borrowed from what I learned there and adapted it to make the core profile.
Rough slab

Flattening the slab
finished table




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[JFskiDan]

53 minutes ago, GSSucks said:

 

 

I guess you could say that, a few years ago I built our dining room table from a slab of sycamore that was 40”x7’. Most planers are not big enough for a slab that size so it is common practice to use something similar to the above to flatten the slab. I borrowed from what I learned there and adapted it to make the core profile.
Rough slab

Flattening the slab
finished table




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Thats pretty sweet.  i have always wanted to make a table out of a slab.  i got bored last year (wasting time and money) and built a kitchen table just out of 2x8 fir that i beat the crap out of with chain, hammer, nails etc.  Turned out pretty good, but i lack alot of tools for finish carpentry.  I think i want to try putting a trail map down on a coffee table i made and doing that clear epoxy over it.  

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Did you make the chairs yourself??

[Shadows]

The router has a 1"bit. So you planed a whole table 1" at a time? 

[GSSucks]

21 minutes ago, Shadows said:

The router has a 1"bit. So you planed a whole table 1" at a time? 

yup

[Shadows]

Wow just wow

[GSSucks]

Got three days on the skis, they are pretty damn fun! First day at Snow Basin they were a bit hooky in spring slush, took a gummy stone to the tips and they are much better now. A pow day at Snow Bird and at Alta and a few face shots with a ski I built was pretty magical. They are definitely stiff and like to be driven. Great benchmark for the next pair, I wanted them to be stiff but they are a bit to stiff. Now I know for the next pair.

Middle bowl at Basin

Rats nest at Bird


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[Shadows]

Hows durability seem? 

[GSSucks]

9 hours ago, Shadows said:

Hows durability seem? 

No delamination yet. 

[GSSucks]

So looking back and double checking the first templates I made for the first set of skis I found a pretty big error, resulting in the ski feeling hooky as described in the TR so I’m in need of new templates. The radius on the tip of the ski somehow ended up being about 14m. I got to drawing and came up with a similar shape but with the correct side cut. I sent this shape out to a shop that has a CNC router table and am hoping to have some pricing back by early this week for templates. This will speed things up a lot as most of my time on the first pair was spent making templates. I’m hoping to be skiing Shape-2 by the end of 2020.



I’m still on the fence but I may go full in on this shape, it seems like it should be a fun shape and if I can get the flex right, will be a quiver killer in my book. My hope is to make three sets of skis in this shape, with varying core thickness but the rest of the layup will be identical. This will help me fine tune the flex to what i am looking for. From there I can make more of the core thickness that I like, and you fools can also have a set to ski.


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[GSSucks]

Templates are in, I guess it’s time to order cores, base and edge



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[Shadows]

That would make a badass charcuterie board

[toast21602]

24 minutes ago, Shadows said:

That would make a badass charcuterie board

I like where your heads at.

[GSSucks]

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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[GSSucks]

 

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. 

Edited December 9, 2020 by GSSucks

[GSSucks]

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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