Mounting skis on a wall as art?

[BCR]

Those Olins! Wish I kept mine

Hanging on the wall is cool but most of my display skis are still skiable. I guess there are ways to hang them up high enough to display proudly and still be able to take them out to play.. But for now it's the corner of the living room behind the coat rack by the front door.

[soul_skier]

This turned out to be a lot more difficult, and also a lot easier than I expected. Anything that involves putting a screw into the base of a ski was a complete non-starter. Maybe it was the skis I was mounting and my desire to have the mount be closer to the tip than the thicker middle, but between metal layers and the super thin construction towards the tip that path was not going to work. Solution turned out to be a large piece of gorilla tape in approx the right location on the base of the ski with a picture hanger JB welded to the tape. A screw left a bit proud on the mounting board serves as the attachment point to the wall.

As promised:


Spatulas have been swiss cheesed and one of the stainless steel topsheets completely delamed a few years back skiing heart chute at Kirkwood on a day that I probably should not have sent that line. Wizards are actually in great shape and were my daily low tide groomer zoomer ski this season, those are the ones I wanted to be sure remained skiable in the future. I'll take them off the wall for their 30th anniversary in 2035.

Now that I know this works, I have some old corvid iggy FFFs and 1st gen lotus 138s to put up next.

[EWG]

This turned out to be a lot more difficult, and also a lot easier than I expected. Anything that involves putting a screw into the base of a ski was a complete non-starter. Maybe it was the skis I was mounting and my desire to have the mount be closer to the tip than the thicker middle, but between metal layers and the super thin construction towards the tip that path was not going to work. Solution turned out to be a large piece of gorilla tape in approx the right location on the base of the ski with a picture hanger JB welded to the tape. A screw left a bit proud on the mounting board serves as the attachment point to the wall.

As promised:


Spatulas have been swiss cheesed and one of the stainless steel topsheets completely delamed a few years back skiing heart chute at Kirkwood on a day that I probably should not have sent that line. Wizards are actually in great shape and were my daily low tide groomer zoomer ski this season, those are the ones I wanted to be sure remained skiable in the future. I'll take them off the wall for their 30th anniversary in 2035.

Yeah, that looks awesome. Well done.

[rfconroy]

Those Spats need binders bro...