salomon widebody mod

[rollerblazed]

first attempt of the left skate
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v169/skippykills/DSC01659.jpg?t=1295899882

you can see how much material had to be taken off
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v169/skippykills/DSC01650.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v169/skippykills/DSC01655.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v169/skippykills/DSC01657.jpg

[al dolega]

Eeesh. Enjoy it while it lasts, I guess.

[rollerblazed]

haha, these are size large so i wanted to get rid of alot of that material, it would catch the ground when i cross step, no good.

[rollerblazed]

any tips al? i still have to do the right foot

[chefkoch]

just take them off

[bobgross]

Seems like a lot of work...is it really worth it?
Probably would've been easier to cut a set of souls out of UHMW and bolt on a Cult or Remz bsp.

[rollerblazed]

well i figured i had these lying around and i can't skate them stock. so i wanted something to put ontop the stock soles + my new bench grinder + half day of work = custom not so wide bodys
the backslide area is pretty thick plastic so i'm excited to have something to grind on besides the boot, and i can pretty much make the groove where i want. i gotta skate them first and see if it's a functional design, if not then i'm back to uhmw for good

[marvinc02]

asthetically it looks funny since you can see the base souls. you could have left more material front and back that wraps around to cover them and add protection. it would also make the BS area look less ginormous. might be the angle of the photo. the slant side top view(last photo) looks ok. im sure they'll skate fine just not the prettiest job.

[DanielBond]

I did the "diet-widebody" thing for a while. I cut them down around the toe and heel bumps like your second photo, but I did a really tidy job of it and looked passable. I grooved the skates as deep as possible and copied the salomon heel-biased groove into them. They skate ok once the edges have been worn off by cess slides and grinding, but then they break before they feel amazing. The Wide-body is a bad platform to start from to make soul plates for salomons, the plate is too thin, too wide, too brittle and totally wrong for a minimalistic style skate like a Salomon.

Go for carbon souls, or skate them without the widebody (stock)

[rollerblazed]

asthetically it looks funny since you can see the base souls. you could have left more material front and back that wraps around to cover them and add protection. it would also make the BS area look less ginormous. might be the angle of the photo. the slant side top view(last photo) looks ok. im sure they'll skate fine just not the prettiest job.

My original idea was to have them wrap up over the stock souls a bit, but because they're so wide it made that impossible. Like danielbond said they're too wide and too thin to be really functional.

[Dr. Zaius]

Take in the backslide area a little more, you thinned the soul part but the backslide area is still just as wide.

No.


Here are mine:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/googleyeyes/IMG_5023.jpg

[salomonskater]

You should have kept them stock. I would have loved some all-black widebodies size large.

[rollerblazed]

You should have kept them stock. I would have loved some all-black widebodies size large.

fuck no buuuuddy. skating them stock turns my 11.5 salos into boats, souls scrape all over the place when you're trying to skate, and the groove is much further away. at least with the mod i can have a protected groove but keep the clean profile of the souls.

[*ROYALwithCHEESE*]

clean your cutting up with a small angle grinder and sanding disc

http://us-forge.com/images/abrasives/00791.jpg

[justinthursday]

Better if you flatten that side of the boot and cut the stock souls. Fit the widebody straight on the boot.