Custom Builds

Are you ready to try something new?

Each pair of skis I make is tailored to suit your skill and style for maximum fun on the mountain! Getting off the so-called "quiver killer" ski and into a specialized ski meant for the perfect day an amazing way to level up your ski experience. 

Stand out with a pair of skis like no other. 

I've spent the last 6 years designing and building the tools needed to offer a truly unique ski. Built using a construction method like nothing else on the market. Inspired by the tradition of all wood skis, and blended up with the art and craftsmanship of resin art classic surfboard construction. 

All craft, no Graphics:

My topsheets are clear. Letting the construction materials and colored resin doing all the talking. No printed graphics or mass media art marketing. Allowing the carbon strips, fiberglass texture, and wood core be seen is what makes these so unique. 

FULL Core Sandwich Construction:

The most unique part of my ski building technique is the full wood core. Tip to tail, edge to edge, all wood. All one piece of wood. This beautifully exposes the wood on the sidewalls, and offers a more unique flex pattern with ultra smooth energy transfer from tip to tail. Excellent dampening characteristics. With superb strength to weight ratio. Maybe the best performing powder ski you'll find. 

Avoid plastics, wood glue, and fillers:

Industry skis are full of glued wood cores offering cheaper materials at a reduced durability. A ski flexes out after season of riding it as a result. The tips and sidewalls are all plastic. This offers excellent durability at a trade off of weight, delam risk, and dead flex areas where lost flex and pop are found. If you're after a ski you can park lap and beat to crap then plastic is your friend. If you're an experienced skier looking for smoother flex patterns, a more lively feel and pop, smoother energy transmission and a bit more respectful of the nostalgia of riding a truly full wood ski then you're going to love this construction method. 

Wanna get experimental? 

This is my favorite way to play in the shop. I've built dozens of highly experimental surf and ski shapes. Many have worked with amazingly fun results. Some don't pan out. Each one taught me lessons about what aspects, shapes, and materials translate into the foot feel on the snow and water. Advancing parabolic sidecuts, and asymmetrical shapes can add another layer of excitement when skiing. These are shapes that no big box ski manufacturer would, could, or should be making. The type of target specific ski that bows down to the quiver killer and instead specialized in doing one thing the best. If you're after a killer ultra responsive tree line powder ski I've got a shape that delivers. 

Limited Availability:

Because I personally select the wood used, mill the cores, create the shape, and hand finish each ski (or surfboard) there is a capped amount of custom skis and boards that I can produce. If this listing does not show "sold out" I am still taking orders. If "sold out" I will be announcing upcoming availability on my instagram page. I share most builds there as well if you'd like to follow along and watch these cool craft builds come to life. 

Are you ready to level up?

Each board I make is individually hand shaped and tailored to suit your wave/boat and surf style for maximum fun for a truly fun maximizing experience. Riding a board that is uniquely yours also has a way of enriching the surf experience. My aim is to make boards (and skis) that are more art than equipment. 

Stand out with a board like no other. 

Every board tailored to your style. The artwork is inspired by the vintage use of resins and pigments of classic surfboards but blended with modern style, tools, and techniques. IMO when the construction materials can look this good without a graphic, then they should. Classic surf inspired technique and materials blended with a modern style and aesthetic. I focus on letting the beauty of the construction materials shine and avoid printed graphics, fonts, and stickers. 

Boat conscious board design:

Wakesurf boards need to do a lot of things in a small package. Fit in boat tower board holders or storage lockers, excel at catching smaller waves, glide enough to not slip out the back, and tough enough to survive the abuse and bonks of a full boatload will ask of it. 

I focus on shaping and glassing closed-cell EPS foam and prefer to use the less toxic Epoxy based fiberglassing. These materials are more demanding to work with but offer a durable, buoyant, repairable, wake surf friendly feel behind the boat. Don't let the fun stop at the lake. A handful of my shapes shapes work great behind the boat but are also perfect for the PNW summer beach break waves on the coast. 

Wanna get experimental? 

This is my favorite way to play in the shop. I've built dozens of highly experimental surf and ski shapes. Many have worked with amazingly fun results. Some don't pan out. Each one taught me lessons about what aspects, shapes, and materials translate into the foot feel on the water. If you have a surfboard idea and want some help bringing it to life I'd be stoked to help do that! 

Limited Availability:

Because I personally shape, glass, and finish each board (or ski) beginning to end there is a capped amount of custom skis and boards that I can produce. If "sold out" below I will be announcing upcoming availability on my instagram page. I share most builds there as well if you'd like to follow along and watch these boards come to life.