realskiers

Perry,

I will not argue with Dawg but here's my thinking. A ski base is either saturated with wax or it's not. I put a heavy coat of wax on my bases and just keep hot waxing, letting it melt in, then harden and repeat several times. Add wax where needed. Scrape and the base coat is done. I'm thinking this is probably what Dawg's shop does in the initial prep. Assuming you have wax and an iron, try it and see how much additional wax is absorbed.

There is a Epic thread debating traditional thinking about waxing based on a technical paper that concluded science does not support some waxing maxims.

http://www.epicski.com/forum/thread/99979/the-myth-of-ski-wax/30#post_1293844

My opinion is that because we ski more on edges than on flat skis, the actual on-snow skiing benefit of wax is minimal to the recreational skier, at least, in the east on hard man-made winter snow. But, I would make sure new skis are saturated.