Where what how to make your own skis

If you think you can make your own skis I have some ocean front property in Ohio to sell you.  Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much money to make anything worthwhile.

http://www.skibuilders.com/
it cost a lot if u dont have any of the materials

WHY WOULD U WANT TO?

skibuilders.com sucks they dont really give that much info

i take it back they have alot of info on how to but they dont have alot on how to make compressors n shit like that

It's cheaper just to buy skis

we are in the process of building skis right now. before you try and do anything, think about this: why are you doing it? are you truely unsatisfied with whats currently avaialbe? that actually happened to be my case. i also have a totally new core design we will be incorperating and hopefully patenting. if you do not have any real reasoning behind going into it, you MAY wanna rethink it.

that being said, this isnt something you should just jump into. the first step is research. LOTS AND LOTS of research. before you touch a thing, you have to know and understand all the fundimentals of how a ski works, how composite materials differ, how composite systems work, why skis are built the way they are, as well as completely understand the process as well as how to correctly use all the tooling required. i know that sounds like alot, but its truely crucial. ive been looking into this for prolly 3-4 years. i tried to do it a few years ago, and it was a horrible failure. this summer, every thing fell into place. we have a HUGE, heated and insulated shop, a free steel I beam press, and hookups on all sorts of tools and shit.

all that being said, if its something you really wanna do, go for it! but the key to a successful opperation is knowledge, and getting shit free, unless your loaded. its alot of work, but its been super fun, and ive learned a ton. definatly a good expierence.

ask *ARMADA* he made some threads on that...but skibuilders.com is pretty useful in my opinion

all of the basics of ski building are there  If the info on that site isnt enough....it probably isnt a project you want to undertake.  check out graf snowboards too, they have lots of info.  do look at the forums too, there is lots of anwsers there.

Ive been working on building my skis for several months now, and if you dont have the tools to do it before hand it is very expensive to even get started (at least several $1000s if you want to get high quality tools).  A press can be made pretty cheaply, but I wanted to go with lots of metal instead of wood, so my press was over $1000 just in steel.  When I am finally done with everything Ill post a big thread about it

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