ON3P skis // Handmade in Portland, Oregon

Presale Ends Saturday!!

Scott Andrus — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:47:47 +0000

Last week of the presale. If you want to save $150, make sure you order by Saturday!

We are making final shop tweaks and getting ready to really start cruising through production.

We pressed our first pair of the 2010-2011 season today. Of course it had to be a pair of GrizzlyCorns. Everything is looking good!

New Layup Bench

Ready for Layup

Oh God....

First pair of the 2010-2011 season

191cm Wrenegades with the GrizzlyCorn Topsheet

Now on to finishing

Presale ends on July 31st!! Also Shop Rebuild and Base Graphics.

Scott Andrus — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:35:38 +0000

Our 2010-2011 Presale will end on July 31st. That is the last day you can purchase skis with the $150 discount for this season. If you have any questions about any of our 2010-2011 skis, shoot Rowen or me an email or give the factory a call.

Our shop rebuild is almost done and we should be pressing skis soon. We completely deconstructed the entire shop, reworked our whole space to provide better flow and storage, and brought in a few new machines to help with efficiency. A few more days of tweaking here and there and we should start to get into ski production.

Photos always show things best…

Empty shop during our first shop build last year.

Shop at the end of production last year.

Starting the break everything down and reposition the shop.

Starting to work on our new "hot bench" - last year our hotbox seemed like a huge waste of space. So this year we decided to put two different hot boxes built underneath two of our finishing stations.

Two sides almost done.

"Hot bench" looking good.

Finishing breaking down the back and repositioning the ski presses.

Framing up our sidewall bench/storage rack.

Starting to attach shelves.

Starting to frame our core & mold rack. We had a huge shortage of storage last year, so needed to make sure we didn't run into storage issues again.

Welding up some new storage racks.

Mold racking finished. Now onto the core racks.

Painting some of our new storage racks. Sticking with the Swedish theme.

Start of the new dust collection line. We took everything down and redesigned the line. Luckily we had far few drops this year than last, so the system was a bit easier to put together.

Even with good dust collection, cutting out skis can be a pretty nasty process. To help keep the rest of the shop free of fiberglass/epoxy dust, we closed off a space for the band saw/jig saw stations.

Another issue we had last year was little curly-q's of base material. They get everywhere. This year we built the base/edge stations their own room to help contain them.

We added some windows so the space was a bit more friendly to work in.

Finished space with two new edging stations.

Finishesd (albeit messy) Core and Mold Rack.

We added two new wet grinders - one for tips and another for bases.

Space starting to come together.

A couple people have asked about the Vicik's tip rocker and tails...so here you go.

Very minor twin.

One of the simple things we changed this year was pulling the presses a few inches off the walls. I cannot tell you how much easier they are to work on.

Adding a floor drop and dust collection for the band saw.

New topsheet and base storage rack. And yes, it is tall.

Storage rack/sidewall bench. Space to store tons of materials and attach sidewalls and tipspacers before layup.

Two new base/edging stations.

Bamboo waiting to go to the CNC.

New cassette rack.

Base/side edge and tip shaping station.

New layup bench.

Room of death - as I've now named the flash trimming room.

2 of the 4 finishing stations and hot bench.

Planer and Router drops.

Looking down from above.

A few more things to finish up and clean up, and we should be ready to go.

Lastly, base graphics. We apologize for how long these took to finalize; it was a long process to get something we really liked.

Blue Steele Base.

Vicik Base.

Caylor Base.

Cease & Desist Base.

Jeronimo Base.

Wrenegade Base.

Lastly, the Billy Goat. Due to the overwhelming amount of positive feedback we got on this base last year, we decided to bring the it back for a second year. To mesh better with the new BG topsheet, we darkened the blue background.

Billy Goat Base.

Thanks!

2010-2011 Skis Available for Presale

Scott Andrus — Fri, 28 May 2010 03:34:05 +0000

Finally here. All 2010-2011 skis are available for presale. We’ve been busy these past few weeks finishing next years skis and graphics, breaking down parts of our shop to streamline our process and make room for more equipment, and going through what has proved to be an extremely intensive hiring process.

Considering how things went last year, we definitely have a lot to prove and are determined to make sure all skis ordered for the presale are delivered before the snow starts falling. As such, we are limiting the number of skis we are selling on presale (also ensuring we have skis in stock once the season rolls around) and expect this to only run for a limited time. As of now, I expect it to run a few weeks at a minimum, but that will all depend on how close we are to reaching our set presale goal.

All pre-sale skis will be delivered before the middle of October, but we expect them to start shipping out much sooner than that.

CUSTOMERS FROM LAST SEASON – If you plan on ordering skis this season, wait just a bit. We have something in the mail for you.

Once the new factory is completely finished, we will post it up since we have some cool new tools and everything will run much more efficiently.

I will keep the wordiness to a minimum and just show off the graphics we’ve been working on these past few weeks. Very excited to say the least and I hope everyone enjoys them as much as I do. Thanks!

Billy Goat - 186cm/176cm - 140/116/125

Wrenegade - 191cm/181cm - 141/113/128

Vicik - 186cm/176cm - 134/104/124

Cease & Desist - 191cm - 145/126/130

Caylor - 191cm/181cm/171cm - 148/120/140

Jeronimo - 181cm/171cm - 126/96/120

Blue Steele - 181cm/171cm - 113/85/113