Thread: PowderJet Snowboards made in VT!!!!

Repost from ECRC.... My boys at PowderJet snowboards have launched a Kickstarter campaign, check it out here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...more-with-less I personally love their boards so much that I am trying to help them anyway I can, grassroots style. VT Represent! Hopefully they will be at the Burlington, VT premier of JJ's Further: http://higherground.frontgatetickets...3739&eid=83244 You can sign up for the PowderJet mailing list here, if you want to demo one this year: http://eepurl.com/qIsFf Sorry for the SPAM, but please check out this roots VT snowboard company! www.powderjets.com

1ST Generation DemoJet It worked pretty good I've ridden the edgeless demoJet everywhere, it rules on anything but ice Jesse is working on an version with edges and a ptex, base, check out the kickstarter project to learn more.

Return of the 8 track tape!

I love that they're treating this like it's a new thing.

^ Ha! I don't know any other companies that sell edgeless boards. +Retro is in right? The tech is actually modern powboard design, rocker and shiz. Don't hate until you try one. Just trying to help a friend out here, would way rather see PJ sell a few boards than Burton. It's a soul riding thing... I'm spamming left and right here and I apologize

What I don't get is how he can be delusional enough to charge what he is charging. The material that costs the most in snowboards isn't there. Throw $500 away on a hope this thing performs? Naw.

Originally Posted by VTColdSmoke

^ Ha! I don't know any other companies that sell edgeless boards.

Check out Mark Fawcett's woodie models, he's got some with reverse sidecut too.

http://fawcettboards.com/snowboards.html

I'm hoping to get a tryout on one of these this season.

you've also got

Grassroots out of Utah http://www.powsurf.com/About.html

The awesome and crazy Spring Break project http://springbreaksnowboards.com/snowboards.html

Wolle Nywelt has been making some too although they're not commercially available http://www.powdersurfing.net/powder-...ve-gruber.html

Next project: duct tape your boots to a Radio Flyer.
Profit!

Seriously. 650 bucks for a couple laminated sheets of maple?

I can do that for 20 and a couple hours. Plus you want us to fund your whole project, so you can spend the couple bucks and a couple hours on it? Nah Ill pass.

While cool in concept, Kickstarter has become a place where morons fund other people hobbies.

Originally Posted by AdironRider

Seriously. 650 bucks for a couple laminated sheets of maple?

I can do that for 20 and a couple hours. Plus you want us to fund your whole project, so you can spend the couple bucks and a couple hours on it? Nah Ill pass.

While cool in concept, Kickstarter has become a place where morons fund other people hobbies.

$650 gets you plastic base + edges in the kick starter project... Yeah it's pricey, but some people will spend that, more power to them. Standard PJets are $500, + if you sign up for the mailing list you get a coupon. I'm not trying to sell anyone on anything, just spreading the word here that's all. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions too!

I'm also repping for Grassroot Powsurf on the East Coast, so PM me if you want a demo... They are also low tech (no bindings!)....

Both PJ and Grassroots are all about having fun! Email from Jesse today:

"Based in a tiny workshop in Vermont, Jesse started hand building wooden snowboards in late 2008. The plan was, and still is, to make the simplest, most eco conscious snowboard possible. Drawing on the history of snowboarding from the deep past to the present, the PowderJet shape is an amalgamation of all the best powder snowboard designs. Jesse has been involved with snowboarding for 25 years, spending time at Burton Snowboards and Transworld Snowboarding magazine in the 1990s, before moving back to VT and starting a family. PowderJet is a micro-business with one employee (the owner) and a bunch of good friends who are great riders."

Originally Posted by systemoverblow'd

What I don't get is how he can be delusional enough to charge what he is charging. The material that costs the most in snowboards isn't there. Throw $500 away on a hope this thing performs? Naw.

Oh, they perform dude, demo one! Do you snowboard? Personally I would rather spend a little more dough to support a company with SOUL than ride a board that was made in China.

Originally Posted by VTColdSmoke

Oh, they perform dude, demo one! Do you snowboard? Personally I would rather spend a little more dough to support a company with SOUL than ride a board that was made in China.

This will be my 19th season snowboarding. I haven't rode a board that wasn't made in the USA since 2005.

Here is my demoJet board: http://powderjets.corecommerce.com/P...ype-A-p22.html



$450 - no edges (dont need em') %10 off if you sign the mailing list, not bad IMO. This board used to be $650.. we told Jesse he was nuts.

I don't think I've mentioned that I don't get paid to help PJ, just doing it out of love of the boards.. I basically stole one of his demos and won't give it back
(It's going back soon tho...)

Originally Posted by systemoverblow'd

This will be my 19th season snowboarding. I haven't rode a board that wasn't made in the USA since 2005.

Right on man. Not trying to be a dick, although a lot of the skiers on this Forum can be.. This thread should probably be in tech/gear talk huh

Yeah I am a JONG!

no offense, it was the same thing with Mot when he started making boards out of the igneous factory. He was working out the kinks and asked if I wanted to order a custom board from him. Think he quoted me the low price of $650 or something to that effect. I'm not going to pay to be someones guinea pig. I bet I would have loved what he came up with but I was just no willing to gamble that money on something that hasn't been tested.

He's been making them since 2009 and he needs kickstarter to help him make 25 boards. So... does that mean he has made at most 75 boards? how many people have actually been out on them in all types of terrain? Not very aggressive riding in his videos. You think he'd get someone real good to strap one on and bust some gnar to prove the validity of his product.

Good for him, hope he does well for himself and makes sick boards. Living the dream. Just giving my $.02

Originally Posted by systemoverblow'd

He's been making them since 2009 and he needs kickstarter to help him make 25 boards. So... does that mean he has made at most 75 boards? how many people have actually been out on them in all types of terrain? Not very aggressive riding in his videos. You think he'd get someone real good to strap one on and bust some gnar to prove the validity of his product.

I guess the kick starter will help with some new mold for the new base or something? He's has made over 200 boards, not sure the exact #, but I know each one takes a few days to make.

Pretty mellow here in VT..



Last year sucked.. here's one of the decent days..



Watch this one, VT gravel pit GNAR! Not epic terrain, but big for Vermont!



I know they have some sick footage from Japan not released yet... Webisodes are soming, here is a link to the pilot...
http://snowboarding.transworld.net/1...-snowboarding/

Enjoy!

http://snowboarding.transworld.net/1...al-innovation/

^^ some PowderJet stoke!

Good on anything but ice, made on the East coast. Hmmm

Originally Posted by BackCountryNC

Good on anything but ice, made on the East coast. Hmmm

<-- You just gotta poke around a bit, or ride them on powder days...

I have ridden the Powder Jet... at Retallack. The Board is way fast, felt like I was on a rocketship.

Shape reminds me of those black powder or whatever they were called plastic snowboards (also with no edges) from Toys R Us when I was a kid. He'll probably do well, the people on Kickstarter seem to fund anything.

Black snow. Rocked one with my sorel's on the abandoned ski hill across the street from my house when I was a little guy. Think mine came from Caldor or Bradlee's.