Colin’s K2s – the works

Colin dropped off a couple of pairs of skis for a makeover. These are proper backcountry skis – long, quite wide with featherweight Dynafit touring bindings and grommets for your skins.

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ratty-edgeThe K2s have seen some life with heavy scoring on the bases and grooved edges:

We can’t file these right down so the edges will have some bumps. However these skis aren’t for winning at slalom so perfect edges shouldn’t be critical.

gouge

 

We can fill the base gouges though.

 

Once the skis are dewaxed it’s time to check the bases for flatness with lamp & true bar. We’re looking for a hair’s breadth of light right across the base:

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Doesn’t get much better than that.  So our job is to fill the gouges, flatten the P-tex and return decent structure to the bases.

k2-p-tex

 

Plastic surgery never looks pretty right after the theatre…

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…but after a lot of P-tex shaving and a few runs with the structure stone it’s looking a lot nicer.

 

 

K2 recommend 1 degree base bevel and 2 degrees edge so that’s what we do this time.

With steel file followed by 200 grit and 600 grit diamond files, the edges take a nice polish but if you look closely below you can see that the serious grooves would need another 0.5 mm off the base to get a perfect edge. That’s too much material lost for a ski that is supposed to be surfing waist deep powder rather than carving hard pistes so we’ll live with it.

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k2-waxed

 

Base wax followed by Zoom all-season universal wax on top

 

 

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Nicely shined up after a good scrape & brush

 

 

Now they’re back in shape they should only need occasional waxing and a light swipe on the edges with a diamond file to last the entire season.

Now onto Colin’s DPS Wailers – will post a few pics of them in a day or two.

2 thoughts on “Colin’s K2s – the works”

  1. A 1st class job has been done on my ski’s. ?
    The attention to detail manifests itself in the final product, this is the best condition the skis have been in since their purchase, thanks John and I look forward to picking up my DPS’s.
    Mancaveservices offering is highly recommended and I will definitely be a returning “very happy” customer.
    ?
    Colin

  2. Thanks Colin.
    Remember next time you’re in La Grave to get the chopper pilot to drop you on snow and not on a pile of granite chuckies 😉

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