Folsom Skis & the New Blister Pro 104

GEAR:30

BLISTER

Arts, Design, Skiing, Snow, Snowboarding, Sports, Outdoors, Bike, Technology, Gear

4.9 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

We’ve been working on a special project with Folsom Custom Skis, and it’s finally time to discuss the details about the new Blister Pro 104 with Folsom’s Mike McCabe.

We also talk about Folsom’s (insane?) new plan to build and deliver custom skis in 2-3 days; go over some highlights from the 19/20 Folsom lineup; and we ask Mike how much of a nightmare it was to work with us on this project.

TOPICS & TIMES:

Folsom’s new pop-up store in Aspen (2:05)
2-3 Days: custom skis built & delivered?? (5:20)
19/20 Folsom lineup highlights (10:52)
Backstory of the BLISTER Pro 104 (13:05)
The prototypes: good & bad surprises (18:25)
Final product design details (29:00)
BLISTER Pro 104 vs other Folsom skis? (35:46)
D.E.V. Tech ! ! ! (42:16)
Was working with us a nightmare? (43:34)

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network. I'm Jonathan Ellsworth,
0:12.6	the founder of Blister, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at
0:17.6	blisterreview.com.
0:26.9	So for the past nine or ten months, we've been working on a special project with Folsom Custom Skies.
0:28.8	You've maybe seen a glimpse or two of this project on our Instagram account.
0:32.8	And we are finally ready to share more details about this project.
0:37.3	So today we are talking with Folsom's Mike McCabe about this new Blister Pro 104.
0:43.9	And in addition to diving deep into the backstory and the progression of this Blister Pro 104,
0:50.0	we also talk with Mike about Folsom's new shop in Aspen.
0:54.4	Mike's insane, perhaps, new plan to build and deliver custom skis in two to three days.
1:01.6	Here's to the crazy ones, right, Mike?
1:03.7	We also go over a few highlights from the 1920 Folsom lineup.
1:08.3	And perhaps most importantly, we ask Mike exactly how much of a nightmare it was
1:13.4	to work with us on this Blister Pro 104 project. And so here it is. My conversation with Luke
1:20.7	Kappa and Fulsome's Mike McCabe about all of the above. Mike McCabe, how you doing today?
1:30.0	I'm doing great. I've actually left the shop a little bit early for once to get myself in a
1:35.9	nice quiet place so that we could have this conversation. That's not possible at my
1:41.2	facility. There's a little bit of noise being made in the background.
1:45.3	Yeah, between phones ringing, CNC machines buzzing, finish machines buzzing.
1:50.1	It's just not going to happen.
1:51.9	So I had a good excuse to get back into my nice air-conditioned home and kick my feet up for a while here.
1:59.2	Well, we're glad we could get you away from the, you know,
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