Doug’s a returning client so gets the 10% loyalty discount. All good so far, but he wasn’t retuning skis that I had already fettled – he dropped off two sets of skis that had been mangled by the guy with the hockey mask from the Texas Edgesaw Massacre (maybe I’m mixing my movies here).
Edges are, to use the technical photography term, a bugger to photograph, but these were so weird I ran up to grab my DSLR. Still the photos are a bit ropey but if you screw your eyes up you might see on the photos what was very plain to the naked eye:
See those little half moons? All the way along the base edges on all four skis. WTF?
At first I thought the side edges had escaped but they also had the “blind man with hangover using hand-held grinder” effect. The base edges also had some serious scarring from exuberant rock-hopping:
Anyway the Cave loves a challenge so both sets of skis (Origin Liberties and Dynastar Chams) got the full elbow grease and swearing treatment to beat them into shape. Both skis are 1 degree base/1 degree edge and they took the surgery very well.
It’s springtime now so I used the Spring (warm/wet) wax instead of the universal, which pretty much guarantees a 10 degree Celsius drop in snow temperatures in the next week or two.
Here they are in the inevitable radiator photo:
