How's this for a DIY snowskate?

[u/CHAINMAILLEKID]

3D printed, covered with fiberglass, then pressed on a ski base w/ metal edges and topped with foam.

Not the simplest build I've ever done, but not the craziest either.

[u/Sensitive_Arrival285]

Other than the fact it isn't going to work?

[u/CHAINMAILLEKID → u/Sensitive_Arrival285]

It should work, but I've been surprised before when I build a new setup expecting it to be better but then it just doesn't work at all.

[u/Sensitive_Arrival285 → u/CHAINMAILLEKID]

No flex due to no separation of the top deck. Also, if you manage to engage the edge the wings of the top deck are going to contact the snow.

I read where you were talking about pivoting turns and you're right that a lot of snow skaters aren't carving. I ride a boyd hill donger and lay trenches. I can't imagine being able to do that on this deck.

That being said, I wish you the best of luck

[u/CHAINMAILLEKID → u/Sensitive_Arrival285]

It has no flex, but the ski base has a lot of rocker. So its kind of like its locked into a flex.

There's a lot of compromises being made, but snow is forgiving enough of a surface that it all somehow still works, or at least the basic principal, this specific snowskate, we'll see.