All our skis are hand-crafted in our shop right here in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Here's what we put in them:

Full maple core

All our skis are designed around a full-length maple core, CNC-machined to our exact specs.

The wood core gives our skis excellent flex retention over years of abuse.

In addition, we have designed it to maximize the amount of wood, and minimize the amount of plastic at the tip and tail.

Benefits are a lower weight, lower swing weight and less plastic consumed during the production process.

UHMW sidewalls

Our sidewalls are made of UHMW-PE (Ultra High Molecular Weight Poly Ethylene), the industry's golden standard.

UHMW is tough, doesn't crack, doesn't become brittle at low temperatures, is patchable and has excellent mechanical properties. In its untreated form, it is also one of the trickiest materials to bond to epoxy.

All Crown sidewalls are flame-treated for bonding at our supplier's factory, using state of the art machinery, before they get to us. This costs us more than using ABS or doing the flame treatment ourselves, but gives you the assurance of repeatable, industry-leading sidewall bonding.

VDS rubber

We employ specially treated-for-bonding Vibration Dampening rubber Strips (VDS) in our skis to reduce chatter and vibrations, and optimize the bond between dissimilar internal materials.

Fiberglass / carbon sandwich construction

All our skis feature a sandwich construction: the wood core is sandwiched between a combination of epoxy-impregnated fiberglass and carbon fiber.

We are able to accurately control the flex pattern of our skis, and offer several flex indexes for each model by varying the characteristics (weight and fiber orientation) of each composite layer.

Sublimation-printed nylon topsheet

We use sublimation-printed nylon material exclusively for our topsheets. Unlike screen printing, the sublimation process doesn't use toxic inks. And the nylon material is much more scratch resistant than PBT - to keep your skis looking great for a long time.

Available 75% pine-based epoxy option

New for 2011, we are offering the option to replace our traditional epoxy by a 75% pine-based formulation. After extensive prototype testing last season we have decided to bring this option to our production skis as it met our expectations of quality, performance and durability.