Shaggy’s Skis are custom designed and built just for you. Inside our small factory in Northern Michigan, USA, our team of passionate skiers bring your skis to life using classic craftsmanship and the most modern technology. Our goal is making this winter your best one yet and our promise is that our team is always here for you.
You're in charge, from start to finish.
When it comes to custom skis, your options are nearly endless. From custom artwork to core type, composite layup, damping layers, and shapes, we can build the skis of your dreams.
Our goal is simple: make you happier on the snow than you've ever been. We are on the never ending quest to build the absolute best product possible. Our skis are built by a skilled team of craftsmen led by the Thompson family.
You won't find marketing gimmicks here at Shaggy's, we simply use engineering and real world testing (on the snow) to refine and improve our skis.
Every ski we make starts with a laminated hardwood core - and that core starts with some of the world’s best select cut lumber, grown in Northern Michigan. We use Ash, Poplar, and Aspen, rough cut from the mill a few miles down the street, Matelski Lumber. Each board is then cut into strips, each strip is flex indexed, and then re-laminated into a symmetrical flexing core blank. The core blank is then precisely milled on our CNC router to hold the tightest tolerances.
The hardwood ski cores are wrapped with composite materials optimized to enhance your skiing experience. Every ski we produce uses uni-directional carbon fiber to add pop and stiffness without adding any noticeable weight. Combined with the carbon fiber is triaxial fiberglass, which orients fibers in three directions, one down the length of the ski and two at ±45° for great torsional rigidity and a predictable flex. Pure Carbon construction skis also use an ultra light ±45° biaxial carbon fiber that wraps the core without fiberglass.
At Shaggy's, we combine passionate craftsman with modern equipment to produce the highest quality skis for you, without limitation.
Because we complete every step of production in-house with our own equipment, it offers the flexibility to customize your skis efficiently and develop new products on-the-fly. Our notable equipment includes state of the art Wintersteiger Scout Plus automated stone base and ceramic edge grinder, a belt fed Zünd digital cutter, and a an auto-toolchange CNC Router from NewCNC (a Michigan company).
In order to truly understand what goes into making a great ski, you have to first and foremost be a dedicated skier. Here at Shaggy's, every member of our team is passionate about skiing and can be found on the slopes when not making skis.
Simply put, we live, eat, and breathe skiing!
We even host Shaggy's Family Vacation at Mount Bohemia every year to get everyone on snow together and meet our customers.
We do all of this for one reason: to make your time on the snow more fun!