How to de-tune skis with a de-tuner?
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yungcigsmoker
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My friend went up to a rail that no one was hitting and spent a couple minutes filing down the edges on his OMWs. Keep in mind that it may not be your skis fault, but it could be a problem with you technique. Or it could also be a problem with the feature itself.
histonskiah
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Take a file and gummistone to the edges and round out the edges
freestyler540
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file, concrete, metal...anything to grind the edge off the ski. not too hard to figure out
SofaKingSick
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13359618:freestyler540 said:
okay, well let's go ahead and assume the guy meant he wanted to slightly dull the edges and not destroy them...
freestyler540
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13359633:Titsandwich11 said:
Thats just stupid, either you want your edges to slice your hand or edges that cant cut warm butter. There is no "in between", either you need edges or you dont.
Once you touch a rail with your skis, consider the edges ruined for good. No carving on groomers or control on ice or half pipe, but nothing to catch on takeoff and landings. But if you want to carve groomers and keep your skis for more than just park; never touch a rail, no urban on them and get them tuned in a shop.
The only solution for having best of both world is having 2 pairs; one park, one pipe/all mountain. Ive spent years trying to figure out a way to have one ski for everything. I tried detuning one side of each ski, only doing boxes and re-creating the edge angle...all dont work at all, so dont take an action you will regret later.
SofaKingSick
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13362167:freestyler540 said:
what?
there is definitely grey area between edgeless and sharp, and people have different preferences. it's a lot better for my edges to be dulled a tiny bit and deburred so i can have a little forgiveness on rails but still hold an edge on medium soft snow. it's insane to claim that i might as well have super dull round useless edges that i dulled on CONCRETE at that point
and regardless of how dull your edges are, you don't want big burrs and gouges on them making your skis hooky and catchy, so it absolutely matters how you dull them down and what tool you use
KneeDrop
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13362167:freestyler540 said:
so very painfully wrong. i can lay my hip in the snow carving, and then butter and slide rails..all on my 2 year old park skis.
put a 0(90) degree edge on the side, then base bevel .75 degrees(or more if you want less edge)...enjoy being able to ski again
13362487:Holte said:
Yes! I'll sell you one! PM me. I bought it new for $699 but I'll sell it to you for $150 since this is newschoolers.
fresh_prince
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the best way I find is to naturally de tune them, just ski all mountain for a while and side slip a lot of ice, that way you cannot actually damage your skis compared to hitting them with a rock repeatedly or some shit.
Update: Edge detuner sold. Sorry I didn't post sooner. Appreciate all the pm's of interest. If I find another that I can sell at a similar deal I'll message you back in the the order the pm's came in.
freeskibum82
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honestly. i bet if you took them to your local shop and asked them to knock your edges down and detune them, theyd do it for free.. i use a file to slightly detune underfoot and tip and tail. then a fine gummy ever so slightly down the full length of the edge.