BARREL STAVE SKIS (Feb, 1929)
Filed under: DIY, Sports — @ 2:35 pm
Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Feb, 1929
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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Feb, 1929
| Buy on Ebay
BARREL STAVE SKIS
IF ONE of your bunch can scare up a barrel, that barrel will furnish staves for a dozen skis. You will see by the diagram that a piece of board is fastened several inches forward of the center of the stave, and that a house slipper is nailed to this board. If you lack a slipper, cut down an old shoe or overshoe. For a more efficient ski, smooth the sole with sandpaper, then rub in linseed oil and polish with floor wax.
If the skis do not rack straight, cut a groove in the bottom of the skis with a routing chisel. Do not rout out too much. A groove about 1/4-inch wide and 1/4-inch deep will do nicely to pack the snow under the ski and hold the user on his course.
I know ski design has changed over the years but standing forward of the center seems like a good way to fall on your face. Or are these special cross-country skis?
Comment by Eamonn — July 16, 2009 @ 9:54 pm
Definetly not for cross-country skiinig, as they are concave throughout their length, they’re only good for having fun in backyard downhills.
Comment by Jari — August 5, 2009 @ 5:54 pm
Convex, I think you mean.
Comment by Firebrand38 — August 5, 2009 @ 6:55 pm
True, now that I checked the definitons. My bad.
Comment by Jari — August 5, 2009 @ 10:14 pm
Btw, Firebrand, thanks for correcting my errors. By now, you might have realized, that English is not not my first languagae.
Comment by Jari — August 5, 2009 @ 10:16 pm
Jari: Your English is a LOT better than any foreign language I allegedly know.
Comment by Firebrand38 — August 5, 2009 @ 11:28 pm
Piet Hien, a Dane, once wrote:
Everything’s either concave or -vex
So whatever you dream will be something with sex.
(He was a friend of Einstein, and quite possibly one of the more fascinating minds of the mid-twentieth century. Me, I like his gruks.)
Comment by Toronto — August 6, 2009 @ 12:10 am
Also see “Peanuts”, July 9, 1957. “What in the world are barrel staves?”
Comment by Toronto — August 6, 2009 @ 12:12 am
Toronto: “Everything’s either concave or -vex”?
Unless it’s flat.
5000 comedians out of work and a physicist has to crack wise.
And his name was spelled Hein.
Comment by Firebrand38 — August 6, 2009 @ 8:05 am
The surface to which the slippers are nailed is concave throughout its length… I’m just an engineer and can see that.
Comment by Randy — August 6, 2009 @ 2:12 pm
Randy: And the side on the snow is convex. So what?
Comment by Firebrand38 — August 6, 2009 @ 2:59 pm
Point being, everything is relative based on your frame of reference.
Comment by Randy — August 6, 2009 @ 3:56 pm
Randy: Okay Obi-Wan
Comment by Firebrand38 — August 6, 2009 @ 4:03 pm
Oh, at my age I’m more like Yoda…
Comment by Randy — August 6, 2009 @ 4:11 pm