If one mounts a pair of useable wood skis to a wall, I hope it is done in a manner that allows said skis to be used again in the future! (no drilling of holes for bolts)
As far as oiling the skis if one decides not to varnish...
Boiled Linseed Oil mixed with Turpentine, I think a 2:1 ratio, would work. Teak Oil, as Mike mentioned, good too. Straight up Boiled Linseed Oil will take many coats over time, and should be redone yearly... pretty much all oiling of wood should be done like that. There are a lot of different recipes out there.
The Wood Ski Thread
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I have some old skis on the wall... But yeah, I would never drill them...!
The thing about the Rotte ST with thingies is that it doesn't seem very old... I would say the late 80s / early nineties according to the design... It's exactly like today's model. I mean, Riva, Voile, Rainey and other cable bindings were all around then, why produce a model with side thingies? Were people still using old-school, front-locking bindings in the 80's? I can't tell, I was a young aggressive alpine skier back then... Did I miss something?
The thing about the Rotte ST with thingies is that it doesn't seem very old... I would say the late 80s / early nineties according to the design... It's exactly like today's model. I mean, Riva, Voile, Rainey and other cable bindings were all around then, why produce a model with side thingies? Were people still using old-school, front-locking bindings in the 80's? I can't tell, I was a young aggressive alpine skier back then... Did I miss something?
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My tele friends in the 90's were mostly using cable bindings without pins like the picture below, I never saw those super tele's with cables, they must have been around though. I guess with plastic boots people migrated toward the beefier cartridge-type cable bindings.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Asnes-Norwegi ... SwEK9ULQRh
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Asnes-Norwegi ... SwEK9ULQRh
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Re: The Wood Ski Thread
I made these big pow skis. No edges or bases skied once so far in deep blower and rocked. Just pine and automotive polyurethane clear.
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Nice looking skis and I bet they are real light w/o metal edges. What kind of binding did you put on them?
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Wow. More construction details please
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x2Woodserson wrote:Wow. More construction details please
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Boiled them for an hour on the BBQ then used my old heavy Suburban and a homade form to shape the tips. Just pine boards shaped with bandsaw and a planer.
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I was thinking of making some shorter ones like Hoks and doing a climbing skin insert on the base. I just waxed up the polyurethanes bottoms and they skied really well with Targas.I don't think I'd want to do any drops on them though.
Re: The Wood Ski Thread
If interested, woodenskis.com posted their new inventory for sale earlier today.