Just got my Dynastar Inspired by Nobis 178!!! I am going to pull the AT bindings with a plug and re-drill and slap on some Look turntables. Bases are clear a litle marks but all good we'll get that on the Diamon Peak tuning shop and I'll save mucho dollars. We are getting a train of shots 5-10 inches over days looking good. Excited!
How old school would you like to get? How about making your own skis like Snowshoe Thompson. Actually I didn’t make them, just repurposed them. I made them from a swap sale snowboard without bindings ($30) and I call them junkboards. Friends in VT were doing this to ski 2” of snow over grass and dirt in early early season when they didn’t want to risk good skis. I mounted them with old telemark cable bindings from the early days and used Scarpa T3 boots. It made an amazingly light and amazingly capable setup. I used them many times at Whitegrass in October snow skiffs and a couple of times in spring on the mt. Washington summit snowfields.
THE RECIPE: Cut the snowboard in half lengthwise making a straight cut. C-clamp the halves together then use the metal edge of one half as a guide to make a matching side cut on the unfinished edge, using a jigsaw. Drill clear holes for the bindings which will be secured with T-nuts. Then machine a shallow flat in the holes 2-3 mm deep so that the T-nuts will be flush with the base. I used 10/32 screws and T- nuts. You can get a bit that will do that at any hardware store, just use a T-nut to explain what you want to a staffer. Here’s how the finished product looks. BTW they are great for noodling thru powder in the trees. They parallel just as well as they tele.
Dear Sir,
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Dr. (honorary) E Wackadoo Mosel
@Denis -- I remember the classic split board report - are those still in service ?
Funny, I was thinking the same thing about a report involving the creation of a DIY junk split board and I would have sworn it was Denis who posted it. Maybe we are both thinking about someone else??
pagamony wrote:
@Denis -- I remember the classic split board report - are those still in service ?
I think I did once mention the junkboards and using them on a spring mt. Washington trip, but they are not a splitboard. I’ve never used or even seen a splitboard.
My concern would be the robustness of the clips that put the board together for descent. IMHO they would not stand up well to hard snow and chatttering. In other words pretty much limited to soft snow in the backcountry. In NASA terms the clips are a ‘single point of failure, i.e. if it fails there is no plan B.
Maybe thinking of this thread? Some good discussion about junkboards in there:
https://www.dcski.com/forum/47690
wgo wrote:
Maybe thinking of this thread? Some good discussion about junkboards in there:
https://www.dcski.com/forum/47690
Thanks for finding and posting that. Had no memory of how long and detailed it got with multiple questions and replies. I hope others may find it useful.
Bingo! I think that was the thread. Of course, who knows what was in the even earlier thread!
Denis wrote:
wgo wrote:
Maybe thinking of this thread? Some good discussion about junkboards in there:
https://www.dcski.com/forum/47690Thanks for finding and posting that. Had no memory of how long and detailed it got with multiple questions and replies. I hope others may find it useful.
