Messages posted by : midfielder
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Nice thread guys. I live and ski in central NH and spend a lot of time on hard snow and ice. I like to ski always in a carve - can't stand the feel of skidding, so really true edges have become important to me. I have also done some woodworking and have sharpened a lot of edge tools other than skis. I have adapted a common techinique from chisel and plane blade sharpening to ski edges. I ski Fischer race stock SL and GS skis. I bevel the sides to 3 degrees (87) and leave the bases flat. After filing, I have diamond hones rigged to put a .25 degree bevel on the base edge surface. It's so slight that it amounts to merely taking the burr down and only imparts a bevel to the base surface of the edge over the life of the ski. On the sides I have a jig for the hones to create the same .25 degree bevel. In woodworking these are known as mico bevels. I first work the base after filing, then the side, then the base and so forth with hones of increasing fineness until I get and edge that pleases me. I get a couple good restores between filings with hones alone. It's a system that I have evolved over the last 8 years or so and gives me excellent results on both my skis and my son's race skis.
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