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Base Burn

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715.
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The bases of my skis look really dry. I wax them atleast every two or three times I go. When I wax them they look nice and shiny. I never notice much of a performance change when they are waxed and every box/rail I hit my skis seem to catch on a certain area and I lose my balance. It feels like the box is really rough but It isn't. When I get done skiing one day the bases look white and scraped up especially right around the middle of the ski. Could this be base burn? If so, how can I fix it? I might take them into my local ski shop and ask them. These aren't my skis but this is exactly what it looks like

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snowpocalypse
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Looks like it to me as well. Two things you can and should do. First get a good base grind. This will take off the layer that is really dry and clean the base for a new wax. Then do several hot waxes and really let the wax soak into the base.
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rozboon
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What temperature wax are you using? Describe your waxing methodology... it looks like you're not getting a lot of wax in there and your bases are really dry.

Last but not least, you're not skiing dryslope are you?

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715.
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Thanks. ^ When I wax I usually use somewhere between 15 - 30 degrees. I basically wax like everyone else. Clean, hot wax, scape. 1 or 2 times. Could my local ski shop do the grinding?
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715.
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No I do not ski dry slope
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RudyGarmisch
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Check your base flatness.
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CDdesign
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sounds like a lot of man made snow, aka sandpaper for skis.  3 steps, belt grind, stone grind, iron on wax

up your waxing regimen.  do it more often
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Matthew-
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you could also have really shitty bases on your skis because my first pair of park skis where really shitty and only held wax in for half a day of skiing or so then the next pair I got was fine for weeks before i needed to wax them again
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LC.
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Ditch the "clean" step if you mean you use wax remover on the bases.
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snakerton
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yeah usually its part of a tune.
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onenerdykid
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This. Nothing will prematurely dry out your base like "Base Cleaner". It eats up all of the bad stuff in your base, but also all of the waxing you are doing too. Don't use it, just stick with hot scraping.
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Matthew-
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if you are cleaning your bases use a ski wax brush made for brushing wax off your skis before you wax like this and not some wax remover
http://www.backcountry.com/toko-oval-base-brush-with-strap
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715.
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So I took them to my local ski shop and they did a base grind and a hot wax. I skied on them yesterday and they didn't feel any different. I got home and of course they've got white patches all over them AGAIN. Is it just my skis? Every box I hit is catchy, but everything else like rails and jumps are perfectly fine.
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RudyGarmisch
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Are those your skis in the photo? Take a pic if not
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715.
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I'm just too damn lazy to take my own pictures. But it looks exactly like in the picture, you can scrape the white stuff off. If it helps they are 2012 Line StepUps
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snakerton
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It either was a shitty tune or you need new skis or they used the wrong kind of wax
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715.
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I pretty sure it's the skis. I have tried everything else. The problem is that they are my first skis that I bought this year and I spent around $400 for skis and bindings thinking I would get atleast two seasons out of them
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