It is important to detune your edges, especially directly under the bindings, if you plan on hitting park features, to reduce the risk of edge cracks and catching, resulting in a fall.
#Detune skis crack
Seems you have done that sort of before, but maybe not enough.Įdges will crack at some point no matter what you do if you hit rails, etc. Talk to the ski tuner about your skill level, abilities and what terrain you’re planning to ski in, this will help them tune your skis perfectly for you. Here, I will link you to the part about a long base bevel. Make the most of your new equipment Includes: Edge tip and tail detune Base Brushing using several grades of brushes to remove. Only de-tune the tips and tails after the widest part. What you want to do is a very long base bevel. Do you guys change the edge degree or do anything else like that? Just exploring more ways to detune new skis, Im a bigger guy (180lbs and 5'10) so edge cracks happen to me a lot.įor the best performance you should not de-tune at all. In the past I have also given the edge a bevel to raise it a little above the base. However, I am wondering if there are any other ways you guys detune. Detuning is usually done by attacking the edge with a file and then maybe a gum stone for the small burs. Doing this can help prevent edge cracks and catching your sharp edges on a rail. ***side note: some tuners mistakenly use detune to mean deburr, but several good beatings should cure this.SupersquidSo everybody knows that park skis should be detune before taking them to rails. Now if the industry could just beat any tuners (professional or not) that use detuning (including the word detuning) in their course of tuning skis or talking to their customers. I wouldn’t as I find the extreme side base combinations more than enough, without any of the potential negative drawbacks of doing this. BTW some extreme skiers play with intentional burrs to achieve even better ice hold, this sort of falls into true extreme as it can be a bit hit and miss depending on how and by whom it’s done. This said, deburring is something different, this depending on how you sharpen is required to remove random razor blade edges caused during sharpening, which will/can cause the ski to be unskiable. Now how bad is detuning on your skis, if it been done aggressively, I’d be insisting on new skis as the life has been shorten excessively and you didn’t ask for it, if it’s minor getting them retuned at a proper ski shop and never darken the first shop again (after a refund has been given), if its very minor ski them till a tune is required and visit a different shop that has a tuner that knows not to detune. Side/base angles are as follows:ģ/1 most common good all around set up (what set for almost everyone else)Ĥ/0.5 for very aggressive setups (what I ski every day),Ģ/2 (generally park riders) as the edge gets rounded anyway riding rails so who cares.
This allowed razor edges, great ice hold and skis that allow some skier error without trying to kill you. Smart skiers the a better solution was the start of the Base Bevel. Yikes Detuning refers to the subtle massaging of an edges sharpness or base bevel near tips and tails to intentionally adjust performance of a ski or board. The advent of shaped ski caused detuning to surface again but with the same negative aspects. Additionally on straight skis not detuning was ok. When it started, side bevels had just started 30’ish years ago and I unfortunately tried it, quickly discovering that any benefit of the side bevel was negated by the detune on ice. We will also detune your skis in selected areas of the tip and tail so that the ski or snowboard is less grabby. Edging skis will also remove rust and burrs. It should make it easier to ski ice and hard packed snow. Do a search on this site and you will see several threads on this, unfortunately.ĭetuning was introduced many years ago on straight skis to soften turn initiation (make skis less hooky. Sharp skis give you a sharp edge to dig into the mountain while controlling speed, parallel skiing and stopping.
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