re: #108 allegro

You lost me at “tuning skis”. My piano got tuned. My violin got tuned. Skis get tuned?

I tune skis. I sharpen the edges and grind the bases with a stonegrinder.

Some ski tuning 101. You can bevel the edges to make them razor sharp. Imagine a ski edge, a 90° strip of metal on the edge of the ski.

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Beveling involves shaving the vertical line above down a few degrees.
Like this:

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Racers go big, on downhill skis (the ones that go 70+ mph) they angle that vertical line, sometimes up to 8°!

The stonegrind? That’s a whole other post, where I talk about base heights and base structures.

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