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I'm currently building custom skis in South Dakota. Decided to finally post something on newschoolers. Got 4 shapes dialed in along with two different core profiles. Buyers choice of solid base sheet color along with top sheets. My skiing ability is mediocre. My marketing is crap. Product photography is garbage. I here the skis are pretty decent. 40 built and counting.
BradFiAusNzCoCaI did the freeskier Annual survey (gift card raffle entry 🤑) and I told them that I want you in their next season review. Your skis are sick!
Shameless self promotion but here is a documentary my friend Destyn at 605 media and entertainment filmed for me. Watch critique and let us know what you guys think!
cydwhitIt's me, I'll have that out in the next week or so.
How ya liking them?
Bummed I didn't get to try them over winter break. Only hit up terry once for a half day. If terry is still open I'll try to fly my boots back next time I come back. I think I asked this but do you have demo sets?
Bummed I didn't get to try them over winter break. Only hit up terry once for a half day. If terry is still open I'll try to fly my boots back next time I come back. I think I asked this but do you have demo sets?
Yessir! Got demos of the of all the models in my medium flex with the tyrollia demo bindings on em. Hit me up if you drag your boots back, would love to get you romping around on them for a day.
Reviving a long dead thread but I got some updates...
The big one is backcountry ski blades. Pioneered by our very own @cydwhit we worked together to bring his vision to life. After a couple of phone conversations and a few prototyping and design iterations we brought out the first iteration of the blades for $420.69 cents dropping them this past summer on June 9 at 420 pm. They sold and have been selling pretty good. Its been fun hearing the stoke that there is for blades out there which is ridiculously high. Plenty of awesome bladers out there giving some excellent feed back. I have been very thankful for all the customers that took a risk on the blades. As you can see in the pictures I have been having fun doing a couple of different inlay patterns as well.
Also we managed to get the weight savings for the blades down to 928ish grams per blade for all the backcountry blade touring weight weenies out there. Pro tip king pins are not light.
As far as our custom models go we can now do fun geometric inlays for all of our ski models as featured below. All included in the base price of $1000 for the custom models. Figured it was a fun option for people if they were ok with me getting a little creative with there builds. This pair turned out really nice, honestly my favorite pair to date.
Lastly we are on the verge of releasing a dedicated park ski model with the targeted price of $850. Originally I was hoping to hit the $800 mark but unfortunately all my raw material prices have increased about this past year hence the price raise.
The Specs are:
18 meter sidecut radius
176cm length
100mm underfoot
1-2mm of camber
25cm of tip and tail rocker
Fully Symmetrical
A solid medium flex with butterable tips and tails
So far this has been my favorite pair of skis yet. Excellent 50/50 ski for park and the rest of the mountain. Stable enough but still quite playful i.e. I can still manage to half heartedly attempt butters on them pretty easily. The do absolutely rail turns out but still break free when you need them.
We have had quite a few better park skiers then I ride them and we have gotten some great feed back in how they compare to other jib focused skis. The two comparisons I have heard have been the Line Blend and the Vishnu Wide, with my model skiing like a stiffer version of them. Which is good if that's what you are looking for. I'm assuming it probably rides like a softer ON3P magnus if I had to guess. I just really need to buy some ON3Ps at some point.
Definitely feel free to ask any questions, I love talking about the build process!
