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Need help dulling edges!

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Craze
Posts: 1132 - Karma: 423
Tell me if I am completely retarded but I have been told to rub an eraser on the edges of my new skis so I stop catching on rails and boxes. What other ways could i ware in my new edges?
Feb 9 2010 9:56AM
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meerkat
Posts: 225 - Karma: 524
use a file
Feb 9 2010 9:59AM
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steeCETzzee159
Posts: 422 - Karma: 20
i always file mine down
Feb 9 2010 9:59AM
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axebiker
Posts: 142 - Karma: 13
No, no files. Get a stone that is made for this purpose. File cut edges ans leave grooves. A stone just dulls & rounds.
Feb 9 2010 10:15AM
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blong131
Posts: 2193 - Karma: 59
hit rails.
Feb 9 2010 10:18AM
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Craze
Posts: 1132 - Karma: 423
Shops dont sell that rock do they?
Feb 9 2010 10:25AM
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GreenStezz
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Feb 9 2010 10:25AM
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fragglemuffin
Posts: 3312 - Karma: 444
either get the special stone from a shop/online, or just ski for a few days and they will be dull enough to hit rails with.
Feb 9 2010 10:27AM
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Craze
Posts: 1132 - Karma: 423
I hit rails everyday, but still catch on the double barrel when i lean in for a blindside out. Only reason im asking how to dull them faster is were about to urban this epic rail by a damn thats like 150ft and kind of steep. Id rather know i wont catch an edge before i go then just guessing.
Feb 9 2010 10:33AM
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Native
Posts: 191 - Karma: 18
If you're gunna hit urban just file those things. Just make sure to file them the right way. Go perpendicularly and don't press that hard. Just roll the file over the edges and do it evenly throughout the edge

Feb 9 2010 10:54AM
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Big_Spence
Posts: 16177 - Karma: 4,352
a lot of the time using just a gummy stone isn't enough.
Feb 9 2010 10:57AM
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Jesus-FlwrSubaru
Posts: 1077 - Karma: 53
Gummy stones, files are your enemy
Feb 9 2010 11:14AM
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i.ski.troll.
Posts: 4692 - Karma: 247

Last year  I was so fed up with using a file, I took the skis to my garage and pulled out the grinder and took em nearly off.  Was I happy with my choice?  Yes.  But use a file.

Feb 9 2010 12:08PM
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Sharpbrick
Posts: 133 - Karma: 20
use a gummy stone that should work well and not mess your edges up
Feb 9 2010 1:16PM
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axebiker
Posts: 142 - Karma: 13
Well hell...file away then! 
Feb 10 2010 12:40AM
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axebiker
Posts: 142 - Karma: 13
Yeah - it's basically a whet stone, similar to what you sharpen knives, chisels, etc. with.
Feb 10 2010 12:41AM
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alex.bgk.
Posts: 607 - Karma: 74
there was just a post about detuning with this rag stone thing you can find in the painting sections of hardware stores

but yeah dont trip over it, whatever you do to your edges the jibs will even out anyway
Feb 10 2010 1:25AM
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alex.bgk.
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https://www.newschoolers.com/web/forums/readthread/thread_id/520693/
Feb 10 2010 1:27AM
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Leafman
Posts: 2178 - Karma: 251
gummy stone
Feb 10 2010 1:50AM
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EVAN_SKIS
Posts: 318 - Karma: 37
u can just take off ur ski and rub  the edges on a rail
Feb 10 2010 10:11AM
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Dustin.
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Feb 10 2010 12:23PM
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a2freeski
Posts: 73 - Karma: 10
gummi stone. took one to my new chronics. hit a rainbow the first day and didnt wash out. gummi stones are stellar
Feb 10 2010 1:40PM
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IRockLizzys
Posts: 391 - Karma: 11
No offense but why in the hell would you use new skis for urban?
Feb 10 2010 3:13PM
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Craze
Posts: 1132 - Karma: 423
Because thats all i have.
Feb 11 2010 2:19PM
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PaleCelery
Posts: 7228 - Karma: 609
Just take a pair of pliers and rip them sumbitches out
Feb 11 2010 2:22PM
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Craze
Posts: 1132 - Karma: 423
+k for making me laugh Best advise yet hahahahaha
Feb 11 2010 4:12PM
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ScuffDUFF
Posts: 2027 - Karma: 143
ya files are fine.  i have always used a file and then a gummy stone and i have never had a problem.   You arent racing so who gives a fuck if your edges have a few tiny grooves from a file.   And like someone said, rails will fuck your shit up way more then a file. Unless you are retarded and dont know how to use a file.
Feb 11 2010 4:31PM
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