Hazel is back from her Alpine holiday and amazingly has a further trip coming up so she dropped the LINEs off for a short back & sides.
You’ll remember last time the bases were scored white and looked a bit sad so we had pencilled in a restructure, edge & wax for this time.
Giving the skis the once over revealed that the lumpy dodgy bit that we were going to keep an eye on..
…was now right next to a nasty gouge and gap:
If anything the bases were even whiter than before:
So the skis got the usual flatness check, then the gappy base was given a splodge of metalgrip to try to keep it under control. The structure tool took off loads of multi-colour P-tex but the tired white lines just kept on glowering up with only a slight improvement. Eventually enough was enough (this seems to be a recurring theme with LINE skis) so on to the base & edge bevels. This time the skis still had their original machine grind bevels so we could check the factory settings and once again the Sharpie test revealed these ones were 1 degree. The edges were in good shape despite the icy conditions and came to nice sharp edges very quickly.
Once the new nicks in the top sheet were glued up for water protection it was a simple case of Zoom base & top wax and I have to say the skis have come up lovely with not a white line in sight:
