They just need a base grind and a mount!
Full specs for this set of Playpus:
126/97/123 @ 172.
2/9.5/2 core
3 layers 22oz triax. One top, one bottom, one 20" strip in the binding area.
3/4" core blocks with a layout like: Maple, Aspen, Aspen, Maple, Aspen, Aspen, Maple.
Pics:
Notes:
-Soft flex and core profile was dialed opposed to first pair.
-VDS and Labels aren't lined up.
-Four air bubbles trapped in edge teeth, potentially a spot to propagate a delamination.
-Some epoxy leaked on to the base, fixable with a base grind, but an issue nonetheless.
-Even with no wrinkles in the packing tape, the tape's overlapped cause topsheet depressions.
-Rocker and camber profile looks pretty dialed.
-Refined tip and tail shape on template translated into a higher quality final tip and tail shape.
-Using only two alignment pegs per ski makes for an easier layup opposed to the three used in the first pair.
-Still using too much epoxy in a layup.
Pretty stoked on them. Unhappy with a few things, but I'm going to try to make a second set here soon in an attempt to work out some of those issues. Then I'm going to be ordering materials for my next 5 pairs of skis, and while I'm waiting I'm going to make a few adjustments to the press to set it up for a 185 length ski. Then I'll probably build some more templates in that time to. Probably for some 110+ waisted skis.
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And to anyone looking closely at the labels. Aha, the name on them is 'No Coast Concepts'. Just a name to run under that the locals can associate with. I chose the name because I wanted a coasty/beachy feel to it. I like that vibe. Ironically I live in the dead center of Canada, right between the East and the West. So No Coast it was. And no, I'm not looking to sell a damn ski under the name. Like I said it's just for people to associated to, for me to build rep on, etc...
A little side note regarding the name and logo. It took me months and months of thinking up suitable and pleasing name. Then to even draw some text... Took forever to get something I liked. Something like 20 different text logos alone... Props to marketing and media guys out there like Trevor Woods and Gavin Rudy. How they can create some aesthetically pleasing logos, names, texts, it's all beyond me, and I wish I had that talent. I'm satisfied with what I finally got though, and plan to build on it!
I'll have a few other skiing related projects being released under that name to hopefully. None of them skis either. Just a bunch of 'ghetto products' much like my plastic conduit ski poles or plastic conduit snow rake if you haven't seen either of them:
https://www.newschoolers.com/ns/forums/readthread/thread_id/723093/
https://www.newschoolers.com/ns/forums/readthread/thread_id/733678/
See what kind of things we can make, innovate, and create on a budget!
Thanks again for all the stoke and support guys. Loving it. Glad to see you guys are getting after it to. I swear that one of us is going to come up with a banger idea, have it go to industry, and have it be a mainstream ski technology one day. Calling it now!