Painting bases?

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I was wondering if it's possible to custom paint your bases. Like the skis with the plain black or solid color bases. I've never waxed skis or anything so I don't know much about how it works, but could you like, scrape all the wax off down to the base and just airbrush whatever on there? or would that not work?
 
if you strip akll the wax off, you can sharpie them, then wax over it all, and it will work fine.
 
how about u paint em and tell us if it works? ;), or if your skis move on snow. good one. it wont work.
 
well u just said u dont really understand how the waxing and stuff works so lemme just tell u....it wont work.
 
paint wouldn;t stick and it would slow you down so bad, and then peel, on snow or if you do rails, just peel right off
 
You should have no wax on your bases, only in it. Paint will seal the base and no wax will absorb.
 
wax absorbs into bases as the guy ^ said before. this month's skiing (magazine)has a great short how-to on ski waxing that everyone should know how to do. do not mess with your bases. period. you should be waxing them every 5 times skiing at least. more if youre trashing them on rails, ice, etc.

but it would be cool to design your own wouldnt it?
 
painting definitely wont work....however, I'm sure you could use the sharpie advice above without noticing much of a difference in performance.

Just don't do the whole thing!

If you're just gonna tag em or whatever do it before you wax. It'll most likely get buffed off in a professional wax though.
 
you might be able to make some different designs with different color ptex, but that would be really tricky to make it look good and since you have no knowledge about that sorta stuff, dont even try it.
 
why dont you remove the p-tex, paint onto the core then re glue ptex on, that way it will last,

if you ski with paint it will get scraped off because ice or snow is just like a grater it dosnt effect ptex muck because of it's strength
 
hahaha, wow. First of all, its not that easy to remove all the ptex, its not like a sheet u just peel off. Secondly, you dont glue the ptex on haha. And Thirdly, if you painted the core you would mess it up. It would be like getting water on the core but worse because it would mess with the flex pattern too.
 
Well first of all I'm not talking about taking a can of spraypaint to the 'whatever.' I didn't know how it actually worked, i thought there might be a small layer of wax (separate from the base) that is what you skied on. I realize how it works now too, and ya paint would more than likely slow it down. I doubt a very small layer of airbrush paint would do anything to the flex pattern. I'm not going to do it either way, however I might take an old pair and rip them apart to see what their guts look like.
 
it's not that waxing over it helps any because in the end wax is only in the pores, not on top of the base, but sharpie ink probably just doesn't slow you down that much. If you really want to go for it, it probably isn't the worst thing you do to park skis.
 
People are stupid. i didn't read all of this... but SHARPIE markers will work. you can write all over them with it, and wax over it and it should be good. and one time i stenciled my bases and just waxed 'em and it was fine.
 
scrape off alot(like sand) of base material, clear stuffs. paint put clear p-tex ontop. then wax. might work. i dono anythin realy bout bases so ya
 
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