The Co-Founder’s Guide to How a Ski Is Made | 1000skis

Douglas Källsbo and Alex Hackel showcase the handcrafted precision of 1000skis straight from the Åre Skidfabrik in Sweden. Co-founder Peyben breaks down the manufacturing process inside the facility, tracking nineteen hand-assembled pieces from wood-core shaping to the heated press. Finished with robotically tuned steel edges and pre-preg fibreglass, these signature red planks are engineered for heavy park laps and all-mountain freestyle sessions.

This is how a ski is made, start to finish, by hand, at the Åre Ski Factory in Sweden. Peyben, our co-founder, takes you inside for the whole thing.

CHAPTERS
0:00 [Intro: Peyben at the 1000skis Office]
0:20 [The wood core]
0:31 [Cutting the materials + the fibreglass fridge]
0:56 [Assembly: 19 pieces by hand]
1:10 [The press]
1:40 [Made in Sweden: built the careful way]
1:53 [Trimming + tuning]
2:07 [Quality check + shipped worldwide]

We build our skis at Åre Skidfabrik, the skiing capital of Sweden, a stone's throw from Åreskutan, where a small crew of skiers has been building skis and snowboards by hand since 1981. This isn't a stock-footage montage or some anonymous production line on the other side of the world. It's the actual place our skis get built, by the actual people who build them, with Peyben walking you through every step: the wood core that gets checked by eye before a machine ever touches it, the fibreglass that lives in a fridge so the resin doesn't cure before we're ready, the roughly nineteen separate pieces, sometimes more, stacked by hand into a mould shaped like the ski you'll end up standing on.

Then the press. Heat and pressure, up to a hundred and twenty degrees, and twenty minutes later a stack of parts comes out as one ski, with its camber, its rocker, the bend in the nose and tail already in it. That's the part that still feels like magic even after you've watched it a thousand times.

We're stoked about how these get built. The fibreglass is pre-preg. The resin's already in there, in the exact amount, mixed in by machine. So nobody's hand-brushing liquid epoxy around the way a lot of the ski world still does, and there's barely any waste to start with. Even the heat the presses throw off gets pulled back in to warm the building instead of venting off into the sky. We're not going to sit here and tell you a ski saves the planet. We just reckon building them this carefully, in a place like this, is the right way to do it.

After the press, the rough edges come off, the tops get trimmed to their final shape, and robots tune the base and edges better than any hand could. A structure ground in so it glides, the steel set sharp so the ski turns when you tell it to. Every pair gets cleaned and checked before it's boxed and sent out to skiers all over the world.

A block of wood goes in one end. A ski you'd actually ride comes out the other. That's the whole thing.

It's red, obviously.

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Your guide: Peyben, co-founder of 1000skis
Filmed at the Åre Ski Factory, Åre, Sweden
Skiing: Douglas Källsbo, Alex Hackel

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