Message #13219

[Gary]

Just a thought...since woods skiing or off piste skiing requires less edge due to pow or softer snow, having those edges honed to the purest edge is probaby not as critical and maybe too sharp an edge in pow can make a pow ski certainly more sensitive. Files can quickly take off alot of metal and the tuner must be very aware of how to use the guides unless you have a machine line J.Botti....

My carving skis.....After the base sees the file, I try only to use the stones to clean them up. If they are really hardened in any part...rather than me going canibal, on the base edge, it heads to the shop...I don't trust myself enough. I do however put the stones on the edges at the end of a hard snow day just to deburr and freshen up the side and base bevels. Not so much on a pow day....they be still silky smooth!

I think it's alwasy wise to be careful with the files, especially course ones.

G