Carpani Skis: the wolf of Appennino mountains
Carpani Skiing is a very well known name in the Apennines, but unknown to most of the Alps. Carpani Philip is one of the most interesting small ski manufacturers semi craft on our territory as well as a brilliant innovator of our tools, it is worth a deeper understanding of its brand .
The site is near Ski Carpani Vidiciatico a small town in the Apennines at 810 meters above sea level near the ski resort Horn of the stairs, that many fans will remember as the site of the favorite workouts of Alberto Tomba, given the proximity to Bologna. The adventure begins by Filippo Carpani well before 2006, year of foundation of the ski Carpani, already long before this they had experimented on the adventure of Blade Ski and earlier in the creation of some plates and increases in the early days of skiing Slender, under the Guicarflex brand, coming to serve the most important houses in the world.
Under the brand name is Blade Filippo Carpani plurimedagliato the Paralympics in Turin in 2006, thanks to Silvia and Lorenzo Parente Miglirari who won 3 gold and 1 bronze.
But we are talking about Carpani Cross, founded just after those successes. Philip began to buy some equipment such as presses, shaping, gluing and other manufactured it with the help of his father, an expert blacksmith, from scratch.The following year came the first skis and within three years from the factory craft has evolved into technology, however, providing a degree of customization in the development of skiing in Italy and one in the world.
Carpani offers a vast catalog that leaves rounder (which you see on the right, in the model F6 with silkscreen "original"), passes for Salome and race carver carver, you deidica the snow with the all-mountain twin tips, and up to get to the flower of production: cross-country race. All skis are made with great care and all wood with several metal reinforcements.
Much of the range is then produced with the inverted side-cut. This is the idea that Philip has developed since the days of Blades Ski, build a ski with a spatula narrower than the tail, to change the trajectories of cornering and output: for a different skiing in open field and a different line between the posts.
But the side is not only innovative Carpani his famous reverse sidecut, which wins many other perplexing, but the degree of customization of the ski.
You can customize the tool both visually and internally.
Carpani contacting the company is in fact possible to make a ski called "My Carpani."
For the aesthetic you can opt for a graphic made by the method of sublimation of various plastic materials, or personalization by the method 810 above sea level. In the first case you can send an image file with the desired design that will be applied instead of screen printing is standard on the model chosen.
In the second case, with the series 810slm (which is nothing more than the height of Vidiciatico), you can choose to place the silkscreen but not on living wood skis. You can choose between various types of wood and how to compose and customize them. Since last season is also a method was developed and it is even more exclusive project 1945which represents the maximum exclusivity and luxury. Each custom ski slopes will be delivered in a wooden box that takes the shape and appearance of the cross, and it can be decorated with various techniques taken from the arts: a technique of gold leaf, carving, painting . Will also be engraved with the name of the owner who is buying one of these jewels will ensure maximum exclusivity and the pleasure of skiing with real works of art at the foot (as you can see in the picture below).
What is striking is that the customization of Carpani may also be structural. After trying a preferred model of ski you can harden or soften the structure with a choice of different materials such as wood or metal structures, allowing them to build "their skis." A very useful treatment for those who wish to race in open field or a ski or rather softer, like the World Cup athletes. Do not forget that Filippo Carpani is also a ski instructor and coach:is able to understand perfectly what you are asking in relation to your skiing.
But we come to the point ... many of you are thinking about how much everything would cost: craftsmanship, service and direct contact with the customer (in the implementation phase we speak directly to the telephone Carpani), driven customization presage a cost out of business, amateur .
Instead, the very positive side of the above is that the change in screen printing and minor operations on the structure, no fee charge by the base price of the chosen model. And the base price is usually less than a ski in this same category in supermarkets!
For the exclusivity of the 810 projects above sea level and 1945 but are expected to work longer due premiums and the finest materials.
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