Rails and Deburring

Rails are pretty damn hard on your skis edges. After you slide a few, the metal edges can get pushed out of its nice 90 or sharper angle and start to sort of clump up. These clumps, or burrs, need to be removed or else it's going to mess up the ablility to hold a carve. Unless you messed up the tails or tips of your skis, the turn initiation shouldn't be much different so I don't think it would affect you catching an edge at all. If your skis are just going to be used for jibbin, you can round out the edges under your boot so it'll be less likely to catch an edge on a rail. Be warned that this is going to mess up your skis for all around use though, and even after a tune up, a shop still might not be able to get them back to original condidtion. That's my understanding of it, try to get a few more opinions before you decide what to do to your skis.

yeah, well I dont know about filling em down, just ski alot, then all of the edges are equal fillen (if thats a word) down. New SKIS = DONT GRIND. especially demo skis! they sharpen demo skis real good to make you think they have better edges then they actually do, so u buy them!

just get your edges professionally tuned, it's like $10 (american)

i have some crappy skis that i use for grinding and just going down the terrain park run (blue square). Should I round the edges or file them a little near the boots?

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Did you hear about the Chinese couple that had a retarded baby?

They named him Sum Ting Wong.

buy a stone for deburring and buy a gumme stone and use those two yourself to keep your edges nice and flat and smooth but not sharp.

if you take it to a shop we will sharpen them.
u can still use sharp edges on rails just a bit harder.

make sure the rail doesnt have anything sticking off of it too that could have been another problem
There is nothing motherly about mother nature. Except for her big mountainous breasts.

where would i buy those stones?
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Did you hear about the Chinese couple that had a retarded baby?

They named him Sum Ting Wong.

at a ski shop.
-Chris

'you ski? oh wow no one skis anymore.'- my cousin's friend

what about a deep divit in the base?

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-Bum Fights.
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Operation Backyard Blizzard 02-03

get a p-tex stick, also from your ski shop.
-Chris

'you ski? oh wow no one skis anymore.'- my cousin's friend