Detune

I can but, you really won’t be able to see it. So here’s what you do.

- Buy a “gummy stone”

- Run it back and forth on each edge (underfoot only) 10-15 times

- Take a lap

- Repeat until you’re satisfied

- It’s nothing to be afraid, you won’t fuck your shit up. It’s like making a sharp knife dull basically.

This is what my local ski shop tech had me do. I ended up doing about 45 passes on each edge in total. Now they’re dialed, I can still carve if I need to, but otherwise makes for a nice drifty feeling ride, and super smooth grinds. If for some reason you aren’t happy with it or feel you took too much off, you can always get them sharpened again and start over.
 
I have a gummy stone, by pass do you lean up and down or just one way? Also how hard should I be pressing

14412136:KilaTsunami said:
I can but, you really won’t be able to see it. So here’s what you do.

- Buy a “gummy stone”

- Run it back and forth on each edge (underfoot only) 10-15 times

- Take a lap

- Repeat until you’re satisfied

- It’s nothing to be afraid, you won’t fuck your shit up. It’s like making a sharp knife dull basically.

This is what my local ski shop tech had me do. I ended up doing about 45 passes on each edge in total. Now they’re dialed, I can still carve if I need to, but otherwise makes for a nice drifty feeling ride, and super smooth grinds. If for some reason you aren’t happy with it or feel you took too much off, you can always get them sharpened again and start over.
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14412139:SchizoSkier said:
I have a gummy stone, by pass do you lean up and down or just one way? Also how hard should I be pressing
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Both ways, Up and Down 10 times count each stroke. Stay within the bindings, you don’t want to detune anywhere else besides underfoot for a park detune. Press the stone somewhere between light and firm. You don’t wanna kill it, but you need to create some friction to get any results.
 
Easiest way to tell is run the back of the hand across the edges (ie if the ski is flat, your hand goes up and down so the edge is grazing your hand rather than slicing)

you can feel from that whether it’s sharp or smooth, doesn’t need to get much more precise than that with a park ski tbh (as in it should feel smooth between the bindings)
 
If you over-detune the tips and tails, do you just need to have them sharpened again and then re-detune but less? This sounds like a dumb question now that I type it out. But after I detuned my tips and tails, my skis feel just a little too "greasy" if that makes sense.
 
Gummy stones alone don’t cut it at all and you’ll still get edge cracks quick. A file if you only have that at bare minimum, but I use a dremel, then file, then a gummy to make sure they’re completely even. A good detune is done heavily under foot, a bit lighter for an inch or two above and below toe and heel. Sharp through the majority of the sidecut, then dull again at the tips and tails to prevent hooking up on butters.

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(It’s Snapchat it’s not perfect but just a general idea)
 
^ also if you only land on rails directly under foot every time then good for you. But in most cases you want a slight detune over a short area above and below bindings to allow for better pedals to initiate spins and give urself a little more peace of mind when ur landing on rails either a little nose or tail heavy
 
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