Friday saw a set of Rossignols and a pair of Burton boards dropped off.
Burton A is a 2006/7 Uninc 154 which has a set of graphics which may not be to everyone’s taste – sort of a cross between Judge Dredd and Guernica:
Burton B is a 2012-ish custom restricted which has a rather inoffensive cocktail theme:
And – wait for it – scratch and sniff citrus patches on the base:
Good to see that the Burton techie team hadn’t been wasting their time between 2006 & 2012. Interestingly Burton A had quite a few nicks and scratches on the base but edges in great condition whereas Burton B was the other way round.
Burton A:
Burton B:
Filling the base nicks was easy enough, apart from the fact that the scratches kept going from black to coloured P-tex and back again – leading to the odd bit of colour creep – the black wisp coming from the head of the brandy-drinking, cigar-smoking pig shouldn’t really be there:
Once the Burton A base was sorted – well not 100% sorted as it had a bit of a concave thing going on that was improved but not eliminated – you only have so much P-tex on a base after all:
So once the gouges were sorted edging & waxing were a doddle.
Burton B, on the other hand, needed a lot of edging work. One thing the Burton Tech Team had achieved in six years, apart from the technical triumph of the scratch’n’sniff patches, was the introduction of the Frostbite edge. Great name, and supposed to address the reduced edge contact you get with a board with pronounced camber. So what is frostbite in real life? It turns out to be a tiny bit more metal under the binding area, barely discernible with the naked eye. Anyway both the edges had unfortunate 45 degree flats on them:
The light really shouldn’t be reflecting from the edge like that and it takes a surprising amount of edge filing to get rid of it. I consider myself a conservative tech – you only get so much edge to play with over the life of your gear – so I hate having to file away tonnes of good metal to recover an edge. However better to have the edge there when you hit that icy patch…
It was nice to get back to the Rossis after the boards and they too had lovely bases but slightly knackered edges. I’ll leave you to make up your own minds about the graphics…
Hi John,
Quick message to say a huge thanks for the work undertaken on Burton ‘A’….
With the board being 11yrs old from a time when the term ‘artistic freedom’ was a regularly abused privilege . I’d feared the board was past its best.
Arriving in the Alps to icy conditions, the board held its Edges PERFECTLY.. on top of that, the work undertaken on the base rejuvenated the speed the board once had when new… the 100kph barrier was exceeded many times..
Totally and 100% delighted with the service and diligence put in by yourself. I wont be going anywhere else.
Having picked up a new Capita DOA this week (again with truly awful graphics).. I’ll be dropping this off in the next few weeks in prep for next winter.
my sincere and genuine thanks again
Martin