BARREL STAVE SKIS (Feb, 1929)
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?
Definetly not for cross-country skiinig, as they are concave throughout their length, they’re only good for having fun in backyard downhills.
Convex, I think you mean.
True, now that I checked the definitons. My bad.
Btw, Firebrand, thanks for correcting my errors. By now, you might have realized, that English is not not my first languagae.
Jari: Your English is a LOT better than any foreign language I allegedly know.
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.)
Also see “Peanuts”, July 9, 1957. “What in the world are barrel staves?”
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.
The surface to which the slippers are nailed is concave throughout its length… I’m just an engineer and can see that.
Randy: And the side on the snow is convex. So what?
Point being, everything is relative based on your frame of reference.
Randy: Okay Obi-Wan
Oh, at my age I’m more like Yoda…