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Make skis- PEM BB traditional.wood.skis

BB traditional skills - wood badge
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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEM curriculum.  Completing this BB is part of getting the Wood badge in Traditional Skills.

Traveling in the winter when there isn't a road can be a challenge or an opportunity.  Sliding over the snow is easier than walking through it and skis can make that happen.  Let's try to make a pair!

 
 

Here's one way to do it:


Minimum requirements:
  - Make a traditional set of skis
  - From a hardwood
  - Steam bent
  - Including the binding
  - This bb can only use materials that existed 200 years ago

Provide proof of the following as pictures or video (<2 min):
  - The materials you're starting with
  - Midway through shaping the skis
  - Making the bindings
  - Finished snow skis
 
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