Blog Posts for March, 2007

I spent a few days in Telluride last week and stopped in to see Pete Wagner’s new shop in Placerville. They’ve already made several pairs of skis there but still had some trick new machines to install. The place is pretty undistinguished on the outside—not to say run-down and funky. It’s the shack with the massive solar thermal array on top, just a few yards north of To-Hell-You-Ride Motorcycles. Inside is sanitary, with some slick equipment including a 21st century CNC milling machine they use for shaping the cores, tops and bases. Stacks of gorgeous laminated maple and oak cores—you could make fine furniture out of this stuff and in fact I’d like to use a hunk to carve a new neck for my Mastertone banjo. Went out a followed Pete through the woods off Lift 9 and for a couple of powder-bump runs. Congratulations on the grand opening!