Early last year I decided to get into manufacturing my own skis and about a month ago I managed to finish all the equipment and successfully make my first pair of skis. Needless to say they were very unpolished, but surprisingly very fun and skied well! Since then I’ve managed to make two more prototypes, both drastically more refined, and all performed very well even considering these are the first 3 pairs of skis I have made.
If your wondering about the quality of these skis they are of the same construction, process, and use the same if not better materials as any other manufactured ski. I have found out that “high performance” skis have very minimal differences in materials and you pay a premium for these from the big guys. We torture tested the prototype skis through all kinds of moguls, exposed rocks, and off cliffs and they held up no problem.