On the subject of base grinds... I am one who would rarely get my bases ground. I have had too many bad ones and often the skis never ski the same. When I started skiing with Thor a few years ago he would ski my skis and insist that I get the bases ground. I explained my past issues with bad grinds and he took my skis to guys he knew would do it right. Now I am only using Willi Wiltz (WC Tuner for Darren Rahlves, Bode and Tommy Moe to name a few) for base grinds and they are actually better than what comes off the factory machine. Now as soon as I feel my skis start to get base high, I get them ground and they ski great again. I will also say that having Willi grind them is not always that easy. Sometimes I ship him the skis, and sometimes if I am headed up to Tahoe I will bring the skis up. It's a bit of a pain lugging them from MT, but well worth the effort. I set Willi up at the ski shop in MT and he is going out to give them a clinic on how to properly grind and tune skis. Hopefully this means that there will be someone in MT that I can trust to do base grinds.
This is all a long winded way of saying everyone needs someone good to do base grinds. And.. sometimes you have to go out of your way to use them. It is well worth the effort and the cost. There is nothing worse than base high skis!!!
I will a say that I had some pretty beat up skis that Willi worked on and after a base grind and his edge work, they look brand new. I can't do work anywhere close to this quality.
Best for everyone to find someone really good and use them when the skis need it. Just my $0.02.
Ron of course has figured out how to never need a base grind. He sells his skis before he comes close to getting them base high. That also works!!
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