Month: May 2014
Yeah, we sell boots in the summer, too!
Another pair of DODGE carbon fiber ski boots is on the way to Sweden after Johan Berg visited our factory and purchased a new pair. Johan heard so many good things about the boots from Ola Oskarsson (who came from Sweden to the factory in December for his Dodge boots) that he scheduled a fitting. Read More…
Pre-trimming parts
Before they can be cut on our laser, DODGE ski boot parts are pre-trimmed on the bandsaw.
Just another mold
Want your nuts crushed?
We have just the guy to do it. Josh Saxe has joined us part-time to help us meet the production demand for DODGE carbon fiber ski boots. We haven’t given him the glamorous jobs yet (yesterday was his first day) so Josh found his initiation working on one of the less-pleasant tasks: Banging T-nuts in Read More…
More production machinery improvements
We continue to make upgrades and improvements to our manufacturing machinery so we can make better DODGE carbon fiber ski boots. Today’s project was an improved cooling plate for our shell molding press. In this photo, DODGE Ski Boots co-founder Dave Dodge is pressing copper cooling tubes into an aluminum cooling plate that will be Read More…
No such thing as too much power!
Long-time readers know we love auto racing and use a lot of auto racing analogies. One that we firmly believe in is: There’s no such thing as too much power. I think it was Sam Posey who once said of the famed 1,000+ horsepower LeMans Porsches that the first lap or two was terrifying, but Read More…