dulling tips and tails

[stupid3000]

do people do that anymore? does it help with the edge catching?

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[jizack]

yes i would def recommend doing it.

fuk that

 

[freerider05]

how do you do that? and what would the adantage be?

when hell freezes over, I will ski there too

 

[jizack]

you take a file and just dull from about the effective edge down to the tip and tail. just leave them sharp as fuck and you will find out what the advantage is. no but it just helps preventing yyou from catching an edge adn what not.

fuk that

 

[alpentalik]

yes, mine are.

''Shut up! We are waiting here untill she comes out...I want to make sure that she knows I had an abortion and cooked the fetus.''

 

[rwkobs]

Won't that hurt your ability to carve up a pipe?? Seems to me like it would.

 

[switchcork1080]

Filing down your edges is a good idea and while you are at it file down everything. I have found the perfect way to do it that easy. There's a school by my house with 8 flights of 15 stairs so I go on over there whenever it snows and I need a good detuning and ski those a couple times. After that I have no problems and slide wherever I want to without catching an edge.

 

[shawnm1260]

do not detune the whole edge...... just set a deeper beval(sp) like 2 degrees instead of one that way u dont kill all mountain performance and can still slide rails with ease

 

[Warren]

The new shapes are not intended to be detuned at all - detuning is a holdover from the straight ski legacy. I'd heed shawnm1260's advice.

If you're having problems with edges catching, have a full tune done on your boards to make sure they're flat and not *railed*.

Blame the tools, not the technique...

 

[shawnm1260]

if they are railed its simple to fix them and when you get them flat, then cut a deeper beval so that the base is prominate to the edge