The cat track is actually recessed into the top and bottom rigid mold, its not a cat track as we're familiar with, it's their heating system, those are hot water pipes snaked thru the metal bars.

The bladder is just pushing the bottom of the mold up into the top mold.

I've used those presses when they were at Hayes Brothers. When the board parts were toleranced really well, the end product was awesome.

Looks like they did some mods to those presses to make the heat system better. It runs off a furnace.

knightsofnii

> sir.orange wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAMtFUvIRGg

"Sporten" near prague, cz

great focus on sustainable production process, do contracts work for european ski brands, but also have their own brand "sporten" which is only present on eastern europe market.

wow, for all the $$$ pumped into that, only to watch one of the layup guys wax a mold, then handle the rest of the parts with mold release all over his un-gloved hands

falls

Thanks chrismp.

That apex brand supplies the son of the guys who grind my skis here in Australia. Their son is Alex Pullin, former world boarder cross champion. He gets the boards shipped over here and structures them before going out on the comp season!

chrismp

And another video featuring our workshop. This time we built four snowboards for a university that teaches sports equipment technology here in Vienna.

http://vimeo.com/62776861

Dtrain

Wow, sweet vids. That cnc Machine is a monster. Is that at the school you go to? I think I'll have to try the paper graphic method. Props on those molds. Such a long process to cut all those pieces but once you have them, the options are endless for different cambers I guess.

chrismp

Nope, it's our own private playground

once you have access to a cnc this style of mold is easy to adapt. we always have a couple of mdf sheets ready to cut, but after four different molds we're down to 5-10 new ribs for new molds, sometimes even less.

doing the paper graphics works quite well. the important thing is to seal the underside of the paper well with a few coats of white acrylic paint so the epoxy doesn't seep through. after pressing we apply a coat of clear UV resistant epoxy that has low viscosity and a rather long cure time (24h) to give the paper an initial sealing. after that we apply four more coats of 2k polyurethane varnish. that's it.

dbabicwa

> falls wrote:Thanks chrismp.

Hm, I wonder if Apex are the same guys making kite boards ?

skimann20

I'm not certain if this is where this goes but for me this would be considered "layup"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xn-d392WZ4

You CAD nerds amaze me. This guy cruses through this layup... The only thing I wished this video showed is how to pull the midpoint back to 55% for us 2 plankers.

twizzstyle

I just skimmed the video, looked pretty good. I like to think that I'm lightning fast with Solidworks, it's a great tool once you really get comfortable with it.

As for the 55% thing, you can set equations on your dimensions. So say you have your entire length set as one dimension, then you can set your "midpoint" dimension, from the tip, to be 0.55 times the entire length. When you bring up the dimension input dialog, there is a drop down I think with "add equation". Now if you change the overall length, the midpoint will always be 55% of that.

skimann20

great video. these guys have some techniques that I haven't seen before.

edge connection

core profiling jig(some of you do something similar)

his ski profile jig is great!

lots of fiberglass layers

nice hot box

and... they look like cool people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml5mJhhFJYI

the only question I have is how did she know where to place that "center of ski" image? looks like the right ski didn't quite line up.

ahhhh they are 333 skis. they now have a shop.

falls

https://vimeo.com/70879822

A bit on the dps shop in the usa

gozaimaas

> chrismp wrote:Nope, it's our own private playground

chrismp

Thanks! I feel quite flattered

Jibber

http://vimeo.com/73787088

Cheers, Christoph

szymon

Faction skis - also madein Poland (Nobile factory).

I don't get one thing - he says that ski is made from balsa but they added some fiber to reinforce ski. He shows a blank core so the reinforcment is in the process of making core itself. I wonder what that is...Anyone?

I also spoke year ago with one of the owners, here in Poland and he said that the cores are made from balsa and PET (same as bottles) - maybe that goes to those holes under bingings? Is that to reinforce mounting places as the balsa would not give good support for binding screws?

Dtrain

http://www.bcomp.ch/31-0-BcompCores.html

Here it is man.

szymon

Wow! Great - thanks Dtrain!

That looks very interesting - I'll contact them for sure!

Best!

skimann20

Niche snowboards

haven't seen this one: http://vimeo.com/48132057

LifeisRiding

New Videos of the Trapper Factory in Nelson BC

http://vimeo.com/61773434 Part 1

http://vimeo.com/62191420 Part 2

Time lapse http://vimeo.com/83206201

szymon

Another video from Nobile, Poland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_Nan-Um1qQ

ben_mtl

> LifeisRiding wrote:New Videos of the Trapper Factory in Nelson BC

http://vimeo.com/61773434 Part 1

http://vimeo.com/62191420 Part 2

Time lapse http://vimeo.com/83206201

Aren't Trapper up in Revy ?

Richuk

http://vimeo.com/60270233

falls

that Trapper boards timelpase video is worth a watch!

skimann20

what the heck did he do at 1:10? thats new. I also like how he hangs them after splitting them, not sure why he was pounding the screwdriver in the flashing?

https://vimeo.com/20652839

jeff@shaggys

Base die cut at 1:10, tough to do with pressure that low.

falls

I think from memory he was cracking away excess epoxy so the clamps will fit on (throat depth of the clamp). edit: No thats when he hits it with the mallet.

I think the screwdriver is helping free the skis from the metal upright pins on the cassette that help with allignment.

skimann20

best sidewall profiler I've ever seen!!!

https://vimeo.com/83886195

skidesmond

I think MM uses that method and swears by it.

MontuckyMadman

swearing....

iggyskier

> skimann20 wrote:best sidewall profiler I've ever seen!!!

https://vimeo.com/83886195

That might be the best thing I've seen since 333 profiling cores with a chainsaw.

chrismp

I don't think this one from Nordica has been posted before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6TpYjPQVLc

MadRussian

Don't know if this one was ever posted. Nice video from Idris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=659Z-AXy ... re=related

COsurfer

Here is a new promo video we did for OZ this season. Thx for watching!

http://vimeo.com/104508136

chrismp

Just stumbled over a great video SCC did on their little operation: http://vimeo.com/105086004

Dtrain

Loved that one.

Sotto

SCC had their Phoenix ski in the backcountry gear guide this fall. The Reviews were mixed, but I think thats what you will get testing a touring ski at Powder mountain. I would try it.

Idris

> MadRussian wrote:Don't ;)know if this one was ever posted. Nice video from Idris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=659Z-AXy ... re=related

That's an embarrasing one, was shot in 2 hours, I told the guys they needed 2 days

I will be making a new one soon, but here is a teaser version

http://vimeo.com/82369159

skimann20

i thought i was relatively good at spreading Epoxy... this guy is unreal and he doesn't leave much epoxy for squeeze out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izx2wmPxkEE can anyone compete?

climberman

> skimann20 wrote:i thought i was relatively good at spreading Epoxy... this guy is unreal and he doesn't leave much epoxy for squeeze out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izx2wmPxkEE can anyone compete?

WTF working on that day to day without a fully enclosed respirator? fk that. Nice vid though - he is shmick at it.

pmg

I dont think these have been posted yet. Its 5 videos from a swiss manufacturer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j39-j9 ... SASIJYaC2x

falls

https://vimeo.com/83536909

Ramp

A bit of a different take on production method

falls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TagrMfWPuCs

Black Diamond from Jan 2014

falls

This was a good in depth look at folsom customs from Freeskier magazine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRTk3Id-EGU