Sneak peak inside the PMG "factory" :-)

i just realized how short telerob (ok, well, all normal people) are

Good God, I think that is the cruelest thing I've ever seen posted. Poor (little) fella is standing there holding that (little) ski all proud like and you go step on his (little) toes. I hope you're (a little) proud of yourself you fricken giant.

hey, i'd love to be shorter than my skis. PMGear ever gonna make a 220?

Kevin's dad here. Still have fond mems of Argentina '04. Kevin is itching to go again. Trying to hook up with Travis for August. Maybe.

Congrats on the press and progress. Rob is the Man. He knows how to break em and make em.

Onward.

If we do make a 220, you can bet Rob will ski it better than anyone.

OldnSlow - good to hear from you. Rob's headed to Ushuaia next week, then coming back in a month to make skis. Looks like we might go back to test protos and hook up with Trav, too. Hope to see you guys down there!

Splat - if you need any help with marketing aspects of the site, help with editing copy for it, etc, I'd be happy to give a hand. It's part of what I do for a living (although, not in retail... yet).

By the way, I recommend against offering equity to people to get stuff done on the site, or indeed any work. Cash - or better yet, barter - is way cheaper, and you get a better pick of people to choose from.

Congrats on getting the ski press. It's awesome to see you guys getting control over production of the skis. I can't wait to see and ski the results!

Splat..Sounds neat. I'll have to "find" a copy of AutoCAD for the home PC first...

Baaah chacca baaaawwooooowaaawwaa.
Congrats. Stoked. Yum.

Good god, a ski press and a tuning machine in Splat's garage.....can you fit anything else in there?

FKNA...I want to make skiis too...

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Splat..Sounds neat. I'll have to "find" a copy of AutoCAD for the home PC first...

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I might have a 'back-up' copy of AutoCad 2002...

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We can do whatever the fuck we want!

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Splat has been waiting a LONG, i repeat LONG time to be able to say that. So stoked for you brother man (and the rest of the PMGear crew)

officially signing up to the the ambassador at the biggest ski school on the east coast, i will flood UVM with bros!

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I feel damn lucky to know TeleRob. Just gotta say it. We go back about 15 years now and he's simply one of the most rock-solid friends I've ever had. When we first decided to make skis, Rob showed up and said "If you're going to make skis, I'm here to make sure you make a good ski." He went to Argentina to test them with me and then made endless trips to Hood with me to correct the mistakes of the nitwits at Slouch Snowboards who screwed up the cores. And then he shows up to rewire my garage and help me get the press running so we can get to making skis a couple days after I get out of the hospital, where I ended up after a wicked stomach infection. Aside from being one of the best tele skiers in the world - The Dude ROCKS. :fm: :yourock: :fm:
Even if he totally kicked my weak ass trying to keep up with him while operating on one cylinder and a ton of oxy.

But it's not like we just start making skis. There's a shitload of prep still to be done on materials still to be obtained. The camber block in the press was designed for 15mm of camber. We have since lowered it to 5mm. We have one minor adjustment of no consequence to make on the top block and it's a go. We're a hair away from getting some additional financing to move into a bigger place, but until then, we'll crank out skis in the PM Gear World Headquarters garage. The fact that I've been in ski-building school for the last two years makes this effort easy and makes having spent the last winter in Northern Quebec totally worth it. Being able to step into a real ski factory and crank out skis was a definite feather in my cap of continuing edjucashun. ;) Now it's time to take control of our destiny and I couldn't be happier. Even after eating it financially with two shitbag manufacturers lying to us and cheating us at every juncture, we perservered, and we will now do what we were always destined to do: make our own skis.

The concept of PM Gear from the beginning was to create a maggot company that would offer those involved a way out of less than desirable jobs and places where they live to be a part of the sport we love and eventually move production and housing close to the snow. That is our dream and we are one step closer. Thanks to everyone here.

We will strive to make you proud of what our little online community can do with all the good energy that resides here.
Again, thanks to all of you.
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HOOOORAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!;) ;) ;) ;) ;)

I can say I've slept at the world headquarters and factory floor of PMGear. Good work gang!! Let me know on the Ambassador gig and keep on rockin'.

It's all way cool, but I must admit I'm a little stunned that splat has a two-car garage.

Thanks to Splat I Skied em in the spring creamed corn down Sign Line and fell in love.

Im a fan for life.

congrats fellas! color me jealous.

splat, did you manage to buy that CNC and get it up and running?

Congrats
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I have mucho AutoCAD... but I am in Ohio... *Sigh* Sick Skis, after I had a chance to ski with Eon at the 'Bird, I realized the full stoke potential of these sticks. He pimped 'em to their full potential.

I don't have ant Cad skills but I know Safety. I am hard at work formulating an OSHA aproved shop safety prorgram for PM gear.
I need to know aproximately how much Hookers and Blow are you guys are going through in a week. So I can figure how much Narcan and condoms your gonna need.

Heh. I knew you'd have a plan, sfb.
wicked - passed up the CNC for now. Too much potential for expensive problems on a used piece of equipment like that. Currently negotiating with a shop to do all our cores and bases, which makes it waaaaay easier to just start pressing.

Good plan, splat. I'm working at a place right now running a CNC machine and it's worth $600,000. It's 3 months old and there have already been two problems that had to be fixed under warranty. Problems that would have cost thousands of dollars to fix otherwise. It'd be enough to put a guy in the poorhouse.

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Good plan, splat. I'm working at a place right now running a CNC machine and it's worth $600,000. It's 3 months old and there have already been two problems that had to be fixed under warranty. Problems that would have cost thousands of dollars to fix otherwise. It'd be enough to put a guy in the poorhouse.

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You doing wood or metal, dude?
We need some work done in both. Your place taking on small jobs?
Good to hear you're doing that now. You will be assimilated.

The place I'm at is doing wood only (MDF) and is so busy there's no time for any custom orders.

I know of two metal places that do custom stuff. One offered me employment, and a buddy manages the other. The first one deals mainly in rescue and climbing equipment, as well as some aircraft stuff, and the other one does pretty much anything.