Workshop
A sandwich construction
Next comes the sandwich assembly: we coat, adjust and stack the wood, metal and resin. No giant press or heavy tooling: lamination is done under vacuum, sealed in a technical bag and then placed in a curing oven to polymerise the materials, set the camber and give the ski its snap.
Endless refinement
This mastery of the craft rests on surgical precision. From the digital drawing of the sidecut to the thickness profile of the core, every dimension meets an engineer’s standard to fine-tune flex and mechanical rebound. Christian Alary doesn’t sign off this formula behind a screen: it has to prove itself on the slopes, tested, pushed and corrected over outing after outing on snow. There’s no race for new model years here, no artificial “V2” label. Each model lives on and keeps being refined, season after season.
Our workshop, our factory
As soon as you push open the workshop door, the smell hits you: freshly cut sawdust and epoxy resin, mixed at the bottom of a bucket with a precise hand before it sets.
Here, the ski takes shape to the clean sound of the band saw and the clatter of the workshop. Two Titanal sheets cross the room at arm’s length, with that distinctive heavy suppleness. Around the workbenches, the curved edges and fibreglass wait their turn, hanging up, pre-cut to the millimetre for each sidecut.
The demands of the craft
Out of the vacuum bag, the hand takes over again. On the water-cooled grinding wheel, the abrasive belt sharpens the edge and levels the base to a tenth of a millimetre. We don’t dress anything up: raw straight sidewalls, visible layers and exposed wood core, with no needless varnish or shiny plastic. Just the pure density of the materials and the grain beneath your fingers. An honest ski, with a story behind it before it has even met its first snowflake.
We know which ski is yours
Our workshop isn’t just for testing ideas: we make all our skis here, without exception. From the first cut to the packing of your pair, everything is done in France.
Because we reject anonymous production and hidden messages, we know exactly which pair is yours. Producing locally isn’t a commercial calculation, it’s a matter of consistency and values: doing things ourselves, doing them well, and keeping that direct link between the craftsman who shapes and the skier who carves.
