Ski Offerings

     I passed out a number of business cards at our final race wednesday night 3/7 and at the PSIA event. Below is my current list of ski offerings. If you're interested in a ski contact me at the email address below for a current price list. Allow 2-4 weeks for delivery:

DesmonD Custom Skis

Hand Made in the USA

Crafting hand made skis one pair at a time.

Currently I’m offering 3 lines of skis and a “green line”. If you don’t see something you like below contact me about a design you have in mind.

Northeast Series -  Ski Lengths               Ski Dimension             Radius

168cm                     124-72-108                   12.5m

174cm                     124-72-108                   13.5m

180cm                     124-72-108                   14.5m

Master Series –    Ski Lengths                   Ski Dimension            Radius

166cm                     125-82-108                   15.5m

172cm                     125-82-108                   16.8m

178cm                     125-82-108                   18.1m

GSComp Series – Ski Lengths                  Ski Dimension            Radius

170cm                     114-68-100                   14.4m

175cm                     114-68-100                   15.4m

180cm                     114-68-100                   16.5m

All wood cores are a blend of vertically laminated ash/maple/douglas fir. For a ski that's a bit firmer I can make a thicker core. For an extra firm ski all maple or ash is used. After all this is a custom ski made to your liking.

Green Line Series – A Green Line ski is primarily an all wood ski. No fiber glass here. The wood core is the same as above, then it’s horizontally laminated using poplar veneer topped off with a top sheet of your choice. Base is P-Tex Durasurf 4001 and metal edges.


Custom Top Sheets


Make your ski one of a kind by choosing a top sheet of your choice.


Top sheets are either light weight cotton fabric of your choice or a wood veneer. For cotton fabrics the sky the limit. See the  "Ski review 2011-2012"  for a great example of how cotton fabric makes for an outstanding one of a kind ski.


Current sample of wood veneer top sheets. There are many more types I can order and I'll be adding to the list. See the "Ski review 2011-2012" for samples of wood veneer.


In the future I'll be offering original art work by Missy Ashton as top sheets as well.


Olive Ash Burl 

Sapele 

Man Made Teak

skidesmond@gmail.com

PSIA Level I Examine

3/9/2012


A slight diversion from ski building... 



     I passed my PSIA Level I (Professional Ski Instructors of America) test yesterday 3/8. Spent wednesday and thursday skiing at Wachusett Mtn. Learned an incredible amount about skiing techniques, learning techniques, visual ques, and coaching. Brain was full by thursday afternoon. WE SKIED A LOT!, from simple wedge turns (volcanoes!), "pizza delivery", to demystifying mogul fields AKA "spread the peanut butter"! All great ideas, which by the way I'm stealing and bringing back to Blandford :-)


Met some great folks from Wachusetts Mtn and Yawgoo Mtn in RI, hey Mike and MaryBeth congrats as well! Who knew RI had a ski area? 


Skied with Wachusett instructors (hi Monica send me an email and I'll send some pics of the penguin skis), Riley, Laura, Adian, Olivia from Wachusetts  who were also taking the test/passed and they had some great games and ideas for teaching. Mark from Blandford also got his hardware and certificate. It was a lot of fun skiing with the group!


I have some great take aways to bring back to our local hill.


Kudos to Harold Smith our PSIA examiner for keeping us relaxed during our test and making the examine fun and inventive.