Painting your skis

Ragman · Oct 23, 2014

Has anyone ever done this?

I mean with all the crazy graphics the big name brands put on their skis every year I was wondering if anyone ever tried it on their own?

I know my son would go crazy over a pair of skis with CALL OF DUTY: GHOSTS on them in simple black and white.

If you have, please show us.

Cannonball · Oct 23, 2014

I've painted mine flat black with a can of spray paint. Nothing arsty.

Domeskier · Oct 23, 2014

I guess this is a thing:

Puck it · Oct 23, 2014

Plastidip. If you don't like it. It peels off.

wa-loaf · Oct 23, 2014

You used to be able to buy plastic skins to stick to the top of your skis.

Puck it · Oct 23, 2014

wa-loaf said:
You used to be able to buy plastic skins to stick to the top of your skis.

http://www.epicboardskins.com/index.php?p=1_2_12_0_Catalogue-Skins

RustyGroomer · Oct 23, 2014

When I bought these beauties they were painted all black. I basically bought them to "restore" them to their original awesome rad topsheet.

Puck it · Oct 23, 2014

RustyGroomer said:
When I bought these beauties they were painted all black. I basically bought them to "restore" them to their original awesome rad topsheet.

You might like this shop.

http://retroskishop.com/

Ragman · Oct 23, 2014

Domeskier said:
I guess this is a thing:

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Those are pretty freekin cool looking!!

Ragman · Oct 23, 2014

Puck it said:
You might like this shop.

http://retroskishop.com/

LOL the outfits in there look like what I saw RUDY wearing in the HotDog clip in another thread. Awesome.

dlague · Oct 23, 2014

Puck it said:
http://www.epicboardskins.com/index.php?p=1_2_12_0_Catalogue-Skins

One of my sons actually did this. It worked pretty good until the surface scratches would break through the vinyl.

Abubob · Oct 23, 2014

You could do this: http://cgraybeal.blogspot.com/2013/02/custom-skisnowboard-topsheet.html

BenedictGomez · Oct 23, 2014

Cannonball said:
I've painted mine flat black with a can of spray paint.

Hideous graphics?

Cannonball · Oct 23, 2014

BenedictGomez said:
Hideous graphics?

Exactly

Hawkshot99 · Oct 23, 2014

I painted a pair of skis this summer. But it was because I was making shot sk is and wanted to decorate them.
It was done with spray paint, and works fine for a shot ski but looks like it wiuld chip off and look horrinle very fast.

moresnow · Oct 23, 2014

Hawkshot99 said:
I painted a pair of skis this summer. But it was because I was making shot sk is and wanted to decorate them.
It was done with spray paint, and works fine for a shot ski but looks like it wiuld chip off and look horrinle very fast.

Chipped spray paint may look bad, but depending on the original graphics it might still be an improvement.

makimono · Oct 23, 2014

Last year I painted up the Mach 5 Mono:

Used krylon Fusion for the white base and the red M...made a stick on stencil for the M and sprayed it...the 5 and Spritle & Chim Chim in the trunk are stickers done on an ink-jet printer with clear shipping tape over them, pretty lo-tech and those obviously didn't last past the second day. But the painted part is still perfect and I abused this ski all spring.

Cannonball · Oct 23, 2014

makimono said:
Last year I painted up the Mach 5 Mono:

Used krylon Fusion for the white base and the red M...made a stick on stencil for the M and sprayed it...the 5 and Spritle & Chim Chim in the trunk are stickers done on an ink-jet printer with clear shipping tape over them, pretty lo-tech and those obviously didn't last past the second day. But the painted part is still perfect and I abused this ski all spring.

The obvious advantage being that you never scratch the topsheet with a cross-up.

skiNEwhere · Oct 23, 2014

makimono said:
Last year I painted up the Mach 5 Mono:

Used krylon Fusion for the white base and the red M...made a stick on stencil for the M and sprayed it...the 5 and Spritle & Chim Chim in the trunk are stickers done on an ink-jet printer with clear shipping tape over them, pretty lo-tech and those obviously didn't last past the second day. But the painted part is still perfect and I abused this ski all spring.

Thread jack. You ever taken that board to mad River glen? Since mono boarders are so few and far in between I've wondered if they hassle monoboarders about being on a "snowboard"

Not Sure · Oct 23, 2014

Painted some old skis to look like the Blue ski , messed with my freinds for a few hours.

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