Should I detune my Wets?

[Woos]

The edges seem pretty gnarly. I'm picking them up from the ski shop once my brakes come in so I haven't gotten to ride them yet but I'm a little paranoid about catching an edge after looking at them.

**This thread was edited on Dec 10th 2018 at 3:57:31pm

 

[f100prerunner]

You should definitely detune them underfoot to the point of edges being more round than sharp

 

[Twig]

Definitely detune them properly, it will help with longevity as well as not catching and dying. My test pair were razor sharp out of the box, I would not even dream of hitting a rail on them like that without a detune.

 

[Woos]

Definitely detune them properly, it will help with longevity as well as not catching and dying. My test pair were razor sharp out of the box, I would not even dream of hitting a rail on them like that without a detune.

Yeah that's what I figured. Holy smokes are the sharp and they stick out pretty far too. I've never detuned skis before. I always rode K2 and Line in the past and never had an issue with them, especially after sliding a few boxes first or whatever.

Do you have a recommended guide to follow or anything?

 

[skiP.E.I.]

An angle grinder works best and quickest. A file will work too. Just carefully put a bevel on the edge underfoot. I've just ground my edges on a convenient rock before when I forgot to detune prior to hitting the park.

 

[Twig]

If I can, I always do my underfoot edges on the wet grind belt in the workshop (shoutout Ski Bartlett for letting me do this). Takes 1/100th of the time of filing and does a smoother job. I start at a shallow angle (say 10 degrees) and do 4-5 passes underfoot gradually increasing the angle towards 90 degrees (angle of the base relative to the belt). Then I run my finger along and check for how rounded I've gone. I'll apply less pressure (less rounding) if it's a more all-mountain ski and go pretty much fully rounded if it's a pure park/street ski. Then I use an edge file to detune the contact points lightly. If a ski has early taper, I'll detune everything past the taper point as well, for smoother butters.

 

[HaydenB]

Just use the edge of the sidewalk at the hill u ski and scrape the hell outta them