How to dull / detune your edges and checking to see if they're railed.

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http://media.nscdn.com/uploads/member/videos/126575104720100210010634_1_.wmv

Sanding sponges are usually found in the paint section of hardware stores, Lowes, Home Depot, Etc.

When holding true bar / straight edge on the base of your ski, move it up and down the length of the ski and check in multiple spots. The ski might be flat in one place and railed somewhere else.

Feb 9 2010 4:55PM

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Mr.Huck

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Embed vid:

Courtesy of Newschoolers.com

Feb 9 2010 4:57PM

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BWalmer

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sticky or at least move into the maintenance thread?

Feb 9 2010 4:59PM

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dunkaroos

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very helpful. thanks for the vid

Feb 9 2010 5:03PM

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thread of the month, and sticky material.

nice job!

Feb 9 2010 5:12PM

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Brock.

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Solid video!

This is one of those rare moments where i feel educated on NS.

im thinking sticky or video of the day

Feb 9 2010 5:21PM

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there is a sticky for these type of threads, please move this video there

Feb 9 2010 5:37PM

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Mr.Huck

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Wow! Thanks. That's awesome and glad I could help.

One more thing to add is please support your small independent ski shops. They are kind of a dying breed and the techs usually know tons more than the guys working in the larger sporting goods stores. The 1 degree bevel on the base and 1 degree on the side is a great acid test for a shop. If you say that to a tech at a shop and he looks at you like you just said something in Arabic, go somewhere else. It's worth the gas to find a shop where the techs know their shit.

Feb 9 2010 5:42PM

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T-Nutcracker

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really helpfull, thanks!
i vote sticky

Feb 20 2010 5:53PM

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nice job, sticky vote

Feb 20 2010 6:03PM

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sticky this

great vid man

Feb 20 2010 6:42PM

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Great vid, sticky this

Mar 14 2010 5:08PM

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thanks a ton bro. sticky worthy.

Mar 14 2010 5:14PM

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sticky for sure

Mar 14 2010 6:32PM

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phelps

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Dear Mr.Huck,

You are god.

Sincerley,

Everyone that just saw you're video

Dec 28 2010 2:06PM

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Sticky. Good tutorial

Dec 28 2010 3:47PM

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great vid... sticky please

Dec 29 2010 12:02PM

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robDAbank

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After cracking an edge on my Domains after using them twice! i found this really helpfull, thanks man, k2 hooked me up with a new pair at trade price, i got a sanding spunge today for £1.09 & did what you said, hope this time they hold up!

Dec 29 2010 3:32PM

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phelps

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Whats the quality difference of a railed ski comapared to a normal? like is it a very major impact to hitting jibs if the ski is railed?

Dec 29 2010 4:41PM

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Great tutorial thanks a lot

Dec 29 2010 4:45PM

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phelps

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nevermind dumb question Huck answers it in the vid

Dec 29 2010 4:49PM

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phelps

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Hey, looks pretty railed to me, but just want to check up on the severity of it. If its bad enough that it should be fixed.... +K for answers that help, thanks NS

Jan 10 2011 9:47PM

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Very helpful thread, but why spend 30 minutes with a sanding block on your edge, versus doing 1 pass with a file until it's where you want it. it saves time and effort. as long as you don't go crazy with a file, taking it slow, is a hellll of a lot easier.

Jan 10 2011 9:51PM

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Dreads.

Jan 11 2011 1:14AM

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Those are probable railed, but it could also be that just the center of the base is worn down. Someone PM'd me about racing skis supposedly being railed intentionally. I asked some shop guys that I knew and they thought that it might be this type of tune:

This is different than a truly railed ski. On a true railed ski, the concave would extend all the way out to the edge. Charlie's pic doesn't have light bleeding through all the way to the edge so it may not be truly railed. Ptex is softer than metal so this will naturally happen to skis over time. If you throw a true bar on your ski and it looks like the picture that Charlie posted, I would say that it is worth the time to get them tuned. Again, find a shop with a precision stone grinder and guys who know how to use it without doing irreparable damage to skis. Ask them to put a 1 and 1 on your skis and ask them to detune a little and wax them. If they look at you like you are speaking a foreign language; take your skis somewhere else.

Jan 11 2011 12:30PM

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Thats actually a really good idea haha thx for the vid. i have one question though, will this method with the drywall sander work for detuning under foot to prevent edge cracks? because my old skis got a lot of edge cracks, i didnt detune them, and im buying a new pair for next year and want as little edge crackage and stuff as possible. btw i ski mostly big-ish kickers and stuff and some rails usually just if theyre in the same line as kickers i like, so do you think it would affect how the skis ride on kickers and hardpack very much? (i live in the midwest) thanks man

Mar 20 2011 5:52PM

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threads. mr. huck FTW

Jul 2 2011 3:59PM

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Blake.P

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My skis are railed. Unfortunately last time I took them in the tech was reluctant to grind th because the base was do thin, he thought it would go through. I don't think I can do it again.

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