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dulling tips and tails

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stupid3000
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do people do that anymore? does it help with the edge catching?





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Nov 13 2002 5:18PM
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jizack
Posts: 2486 - Karma: 16
yes i would def recommend doing it.



fuk that
Nov 13 2002 5:41PM
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freerider05
Posts: 164 - Karma: 10
how do you do that? and what would the adantage be?


when hell freezes over, I will ski there too
Nov 13 2002 5:59PM
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jizack
Posts: 2486 - Karma: 16
you take a file and just dull from about the effective edge down to the tip and tail. just leave them sharp as fuck and you will find out what the advantage is. no but it just helps preventing yyou from catching an edge adn what not.



fuk that
Nov 13 2002 7:28PM
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alpentalik
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yes, mine are.


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Nov 13 2002 7:52PM
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rwkobs
Posts: 286 - Karma: 10
Won't that hurt your ability to carve up a pipe?? Seems to me like it would.
Nov 13 2002 8:34PM
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switchcork1080
Posts: 313 - Karma: 9
Filing down your edges is a good idea and while you are at it file down everything. I have found the perfect way to do it that easy. There's a school by my house with 8 flights of 15 stairs so I go on over there whenever it snows and I need a good detuning and ski those a couple times. After that I have no problems and slide wherever I want to without catching an edge.
Nov 13 2002 8:48PM
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shawnm1260
Posts: 3219 - Karma: 66
do not detune the whole edge...... just set a deeper beval(sp) like 2 degrees instead of one that way u dont kill all mountain performance and can still slide rails with ease
Nov 14 2002 2:53AM
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Warren
Posts: 224 - Karma: 10
The new shapes are not intended to be detuned at all - detuning is a holdover from the straight ski legacy. I'd heed shawnm1260's advice.

If you're having problems with edges catching, have a full tune done on your boards to make sure they're flat and not *railed*.

Blame the tools, not the technique... ;)

Nov 14 2002 11:48AM
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shawnm1260
Posts: 3219 - Karma: 66
if they are railed its simple to fix them and when you get them flat, then cut a deeper beval so that the base is prominate to the edge
Nov 14 2002 6:02PM
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