ski tuning discussion

As I was dropping off 3 pairs of skis at the local shop for tuning and binding adjustment Saturday I thought to myself "it sure would be nice to be able to sharpen and wax these things myself". Then I remembered reading about good tunes and bad tunes affecting performance and wondered whether I...

And so it begins.

So, I now have 2018 Titans... To assess tuning I retracted the brakes & then put the skis base-to-base. I was surprised how much tip early rise (or rocker) these things have. No rocker in the tails - so it's easy to identify the contact points there. It looks to me like I should consider the...

I was just scraping wax off my Fischer Motive 86 Tis last night and noticed that a relatively small section of one of them has become convex near the heel piece. What would cause this? Did I overheat this section during waxing or does it just happen over time through normal use? Never had...

Hi all, I suck at tuning. I used to think I was good, as my tunes came out better than the job from the local shop. But then I got my skis tuned at Sports Alpin at the bottom of Mont-Sainte-Anne; you could shave with these skis. They used the Wintersteiger machine on them at 3 side, 0.75 base...

I think I rounded my edges last time I sharpened them because of sidewall material getting in the way. I only edge (diamond stones) and wax between professional tunes and base grinds, so i haven't purchased a sidewall planer. I do have a fanvy carbon steel file that was a gift. Can I just use...

Will my skis edge better if I have a concave base? Where would I get the most effect (with the least damage to the glide)? Has anyone done or seen something like this? Thinking of tinkering. E4ric

So looking at stones there seems to be a billion different options out there, ranging from $$$ (at least up here in Canada) Moonflex stones, to DMT stones, to Wintersteiger stones, to super cheap "DMD" stones on Amazon. Is there really that much of a difference between them all? I can assume...

Editor's note: we are initially moving a few posts here from another thread, to keep things on topic. Please keep this discussion on-topic and friendly :) Thank you! So, the thought for this would be to get used to the rallies at 1*/2*, and then move to 1*/3*. I would have a shop set the...