Member of the Month

partyandBS
December, 2024

Online

Welcome to the Newschoolers forums! You may read the forums as a guest, however you must be a registered member to post. Register to become a member today!

Make a twintip ski

profile picture
easson19
Posts: 430 - Karma: 10
is it possible to make a normal ski into a twintip ski. if anyones tryed it could u tell me how to do it.

thanks
Jan 17 2006 8:00PM
0 0
profile picture
JockinJLoads
Posts: 3480 - Karma: 6
torch the end of a reg ski and bend it up.....mad ill....
Jan 17 2006 8:01PM
0 0
profile picture
Grimace.
Posts: 8345 - Karma: 25
or just buy one
Jan 17 2006 8:03PM
0 0
profile picture
Snowcase
Posts: 11456 - Karma: 634
good luck
Jan 17 2006 8:03PM
0 0
profile picture
imotion
Posts: 1343 - Karma: 11
i heard you can boil the end
Jan 17 2006 8:05PM
0 0
profile picture
easson19
Posts: 430 - Karma: 10
ive been thinking about a torch. i have twintip skis but i have like 1975 rossis and i want to make um twintip for urban riding
Jan 17 2006 8:13PM
0 0
profile picture
1-pippin
Posts: 1741 - Karma: -2
my friend did it with a torch
Jan 17 2006 8:23PM
0 0
profile picture
617jibber
Posts: 2391 - Karma: 28
i want to make some straight skis into twin tips
Jan 17 2006 8:23PM
0 0
profile picture
Elife
Posts: 2829 - Karma: 44
thats a pretty sweet idea
Jan 17 2006 8:35PM
0 0
profile picture
iridefattwins
Posts: 1126 - Karma: 16
ya and then u put under a door and bent it then rivet the end
Jan 17 2006 8:49PM
0 0
profile picture
Chicken_P
Posts: 885 - Karma: 21
pretty good idea...i might try it with old skis
Jan 17 2006 8:52PM
0 0
profile picture
542East
Posts: 105 - Karma: 9
or you could get a ski press and create a new ski company from scratch
Jan 18 2006 12:42AM
0 0
profile picture
easson19
Posts: 430 - Karma: 10
people do that everyday^^^^
Jan 18 2006 5:39PM
0 0
profile picture
johanblaze
Posts: 4987 - Karma: 345
boil the tip in a pot of water for like 20 minutes. then shove the tip underneath a door and pry it up.
Jan 18 2006 6:19PM
0 0
profile picture
skier24
Posts: 1216 - Karma: 11
^^ haha yea sean. good idea. i might try that w/ some old skis.
Jan 18 2006 6:26PM
0 0
profile picture
snoopy
Posts: 5240 - Karma: 30
could that actually work?
Jan 18 2006 7:00PM
0 0
profile picture
eastchris
Posts: 674 - Karma: 16
all this bending of skis sound pretty wack but I may try with an old pair
Jan 18 2006 7:50PM
0 0
profile picture
R.Fahey
Posts: 8602 - Karma: 539
The older Newschoolers.com gets, the more clueless its members become. This isn't new people... I'm pretty sure Jon started skiing on regular skis that he turned the tail up on. A lot of people have done it. And it works alright. sometimes the base bubbles if you use a torch, and delam in inevitable. so yeah, do like they said and rivet them.
Jan 18 2006 9:33PM
0 0
profile picture
kj_hud
Posts: 667 - Karma: 17
let me know how it actually works, id love to try it with my rossi bandit Xs (first generation)
Jan 19 2006 11:44AM
0 0
profile picture
Lineskiah11
Posts: 2029 - Karma: 21
theres some web site that i saw on here once that showed how to do it with like fiberglass and then u put like slits in the tails with a hack saw like 1/2 an inch apart to help it bend
Jan 19 2006 3:41PM
0 0
profile picture
easson19
Posts: 430 - Karma: 10
i did it. i had some old rossi bandit B1s that had the crap beating out of them. i did it with a torch and it worked fine. the base is fine too. i held a torch back from it a bit for a while then put it uder a door and slowly bent it up. then i held it there and it worked great
Jan 19 2006 4:00PM
0 0
profile picture
JQ89
Posts: 432 - Karma: 10
while youre at it maybe you could try to make straight skis shaped
Jan 19 2006 6:18PM
0 0
profile picture
jp14
Posts: 223 - Karma: 10
Yeah, I'd rather just buy twin tips.
Jan 22 2006 6:15PM
0 0
profile picture
easson19
Posts: 430 - Karma: 10
^^^ dude, people that are doing this already have a twin tip skis but want a pair to completly ruin or ride urban on.
Jan 22 2006 7:40PM
0 0
profile picture
542East
Posts: 105 - Karma: 9
dudee what exactly do you mean by making rivets in them
Jan 25 2006 1:10AM
0 0
profile picture
KeegLove
Posts: 10166 - Karma: 55
thats what turpin did wayy back in the day when he had jsut started skiing a pair of blow-torched rentals is how he rolled.
Jan 25 2006 1:20AM
0 0
profile picture
cool_catskier
Posts: 715 - Karma: 12
torch torch torch bend bend bend
Jan 25 2006 1:52AM
0 0
profile picture
JoakimHayland
Posts: 1053 - Karma: 43
yea, a torch works fine, just keep it away from the ski. i have a pair at home, so the next step is to try and build a twintip ski from scratch
Jan 25 2006 4:59AM
0 0
All times are Eastern (-5)