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With most bases, the more you wax them, the better. They will keep taking in wax.
It sounds like your bases need to be properly set up. There are two ways to go about this.
First - if you can find a shop that offers a hotbox service, drop them off and get them to do that. Basically a hotbox is a temperature controlled box that will open up the ski bases pores and take in a ton of wax. It is equal to like 10-20 waxes. This will help keep your bases from drying out a ton.
I think they work so well that every pair of ON3Ps made will come already having been hotboxed.
Second - you could go out and get the stuff you need to correctly set up your bases. As basic as you could go would be a iron (any cheap kid works, without holes it better but with is ok), some base conditioner (this is key and will help you set up a base layer to start building off of), scarper, all temp wax, and if you really want to, a nylon brush.
What you should do is clean your bases off well (and then, if you want to spend a bit more money, brush them with a steel structure brush which will help open up the pores), then using the base conditioner (you can do this with normal wax, too, but I prefer base conditioner) drip and wax in a layer of wax. Leave it for awhile (minimum one hour), then scrap it off.
The use a softer brush, like nylon and horse hair, to brush the ski.
The put on another coat, and repeat the process 3-5 times. It takes awhile, so it can be a pain, but it helps a lot.
Once you have 3-6 coats of base conditioner in the ski, get some all temp wax, and repeat the process. Give it a minimum of two coats.
After this, you should be set. I do this to all of my skis and I am very fast for 4-5 days and don't get to the point of wanting to wax them until like day 8-9. And I hate slow skis, so I bet a wax way more than a lot of people (I don't give a shit about base gouges that are not core shots as well. Each fix for those is to just drip some cold weather wax in them. it will hold for a few days and is easier/cheaper than trying to get a deep gouge to correctly filled).
There is lots of info online about this. Obviously the easiest is a hotbox, which will help a lot, but if you cannot find one, you can definitely do it yourself with a little bit of cash invested.