Downhill ski

Hi,

here are some impressions from a student project. They made a pair of downhill skis using the LR4 for the template for cutting the ski base and bending the steel ski edge. The core is made of ash and the LR4 was used to taper the thickness towards the tip and tail. And also the press mold was milled.

Can’t wait for the snow to arrive :slight_smile:

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Very nice! I am also planning to make my own skateboard, I need a mold for it as well! Nice to see it works well. :slight_smile:

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WOW, that is too cool. I love to see new uses like this. Thank you so much for sharing!

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What an epic project. I hope he gets a lot of compliments on the slopes.

It looks really nice! Is it wood, steel and glass fiber?

the ski base ist pa6 or pe, then a triax glasfibre fabric, ash core, triax fabric and at the top a printed pa12 top sheet for the design

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Oh yes!

Very very nice ski!

But for me a splitboard please :wink:

Christian

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What do you use for the edges?

After the lamination both ski were together in one part. They were cut out by jigsaw and the edges were smothened by belt sander. to protect the ash against moisture, the sides were painted. In the future i want to build in a proper sidewall, probably out of epoxy resin

I meant, do the skis have metal edges, or are they all wood/fibreglass?

steel edges. you can buy them as strip stock. then you bend them according to your ski contour an superglue them provisionally to the ski base, as shown in the sixth picture. they have these little wings and when you laminate on top of the ski base with the steel edges they are proper fixed to the ski.

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