Angus’s Lesson

Yet another Burton board wandered into the cave today, with 11 year old Angus hiding somewhere behind it. He sees the benefit in taking control of his own destiny and learning how to edge & wax his kit.

He’s been keeping it looked after and he learned how the Sharpie can be used to quickly find the current angles. The edges were bang on 1 degree base & side which makes things easy for us. He’s a dry
slope dude and his edges don’t suffer from stone bites but the base! Lord above. However it was an edge & wax lesson so we politely avoided the base issues, this time anyway.

Side edges were a breeze but needed a tiny bit of plastic to be planed off and the toe edge was noticeably less sharp than the heel edge so it took a bit more effort and elbow grease to get just right. Angus is still at school so hasn’t completely lost the ability to listen once and do what he’s told straight away, which is refreshing. He picked up the difference between the right & wrong noise & feel for the diamond files very quickly which was gratifying.

Finally we couldn’t ignore the P-tex battlefield that is Angus’s base any longer. Here’s a photo of Angus getting busy with the iron that will go down a storm with all the girls at school. The base has the usual dried out white lines that we associate with excessive dry slope bashing and it was a bit reluctant to soak up the wax to begin with but we soon beat it into submission. When the board comes back to the cave the base will be flattened, filled, structured and waxed which should reset it to like new and will help new wax adhere better.

Following some scraping and brushing, which pretty much proved that some jobs are simply easier for bigger stronger people, the board came up pretty well and is ready to start bothering the nylon at Garthdee again.