Lurch

There was a guy here selling a 178 Spearhead for a good price ....no, wait

Are you out of your Vulcan mind @pow4ever?!

@RCrobar nice concept! I particularly like the 'core stillness' aspect. I thought your logo might have a link to a euler (a constantly varying curve).

Euler spiral perhaps

Sold! Donation sent to ASB on behalf of @Rusty Edges and moi.

@Rusty Edges they go over the liner.

Ha! Careful RJ, @barryj might buy you sight unseen, slap on a boiler plate and ride you like a man who has been long starved of the carve!

Sold. 2 X Medium (M25-27). Never used. How about $20 delivered conus and I will donate $10 to ASB.

I have been kicking around around the idea of a split board for a while now, so when I saw a tent set up at the base with a split stuck in the snow out front, I wandered over for a quick look. Turned out it was a small Salt Lake company, Cardiff Snowcraft running demos. They were not too keen to mount up the TD3s, so once the groom was thrashed I fetched my softies and went back for a chat and ride. Bjorn started by filling me in on their split construction: multiple woods in core, titanal layer, full carbon layup + stringers, 5 angle sidecut and camber. Now I am interested. Bonus for my sasquatchness was the width - their 166 Goat was 28.1 at the front inserts and 27.5 at the rear. 11.5m vsr. He went on to say that although they do split and solids, their philosophy is that boards are first designed and tested as splits, then the solids are tuned to a more resort style application. Finish is top notch and the topsheets graphics are classy - choice of solid gloss or no-nonsense textured which is opaque and shows the core detail. In particular, the surf shaped Swell is beautiful and could hang on my wall any day. I rode the Goat split and carbon solid back-to-back and I could not tell the difference. Except for the noise - the carbon split is loud! It is also insanely light - felt like a toothpick under foot. Almost scarey.... Flex was a little soft for my 190 on groomers, but welcome in the bumps. Lively feel. I ran a few decent turns into it on the afternoon 'groomtatoes' without drama. Don't ask me about the split aspects, I wouldn't know one end of a skin from another (yet). Phantom joining hardware. Perhaps more experienced splitters could help fill in this part. Anyway, if you are in the market for a split maybe give these guys a thought & support local. From little things, big things grow.

Dan suspect it's more likely the burrs come from the lever 'flopping' against the edge of the board?

All good pics, but that last one of Marvin(?) with his trench on show is great.

@barryj you got a hankering for a tall, dark and hansome Japanese outlaw?!

Thanks @slapos. Your reports are always well written and informative. And your english is 100 times better than my Polish :) Na zadrowie!

Sorry @slapos I should have been clearer. I was asking about the shell lug where the lower end of the spring attaches.

@slapos the lower spring attach lug looks a little flimsy in the pictures - is it beefier than it appears ?

@Kijima that bookmatched woodie is beautiful!

Forward lean position seem ok @Mr.E

Maybe, maybe not...

Err, that is only a small part of what I read ^ - may be worth a re-read @1xsculler

Sir David would be proud @bigwavedave. You will probably have to draw the line at the The Secret Life of the Spirit Carver documentary though!

19 m sidecut?

100 last; now we are getting somewhere. Link lever spring mod next thanks @Mr.E

Has anyone used these on boots bigger than M27?Website quotes max BSL as 300mm, just wondering if there is some wiggle room.

@pokkis is that a snowboard strapped to that paraglider?

Thanks @Beckmann AG. I came across a large variation between 2 different sets of skis (on which every other parameter is set the same) which gave me cause to wonder if that 'usual' business card dimension may be different for Knee bindings (one was as advertised, the other akin to a sausage in a shirt sleeve). Unable to find any OEM adjustment info. Bad day at the workshop maybe.