Saber70x Posted January 7, 2010 Report Posted January 7, 2010 I am located in northeastern PA. I wanted to know who would be the best to do stone grinds on snowboards? I have had a local shop do some in the past, one board came out well, the other did not. Also, will edges damage the grinder? If so, can they tell me what I would need to do to the base edges before they could perform the stone grind? I would appreciate any recommendations anyone can give about where to go. even if I have to go somewhere a little further and wait while they do it, I am only looking for grinds for structure, not looking for my edges to be sharpened or base waxed. Thanks for any responses in advance. Quote
AtomicSkier Posted January 7, 2010 Report Posted January 7, 2010 I am located in northeastern PA. I wanted to know who would be the best to do stone grinds on snowboards? I have had a local shop do some in the past, one board came out well, the other did not. Also, will edges damage the grinder? If so, can they tell me what I would need to do to the base edges before they could perform the stone grind? I would appreciate any recommendations anyone can give about where to go. even if I have to go somewhere a little further and wait while they do it, I am only looking for grinds for structure, not looking for my edges to be sharpened or base waxed. Thanks for any responses in advance. Well, the stone grind is going to grind your edges down as well, but this is a good thing. Also, you're going to want to wax your board after a stone grind as it's going to be free of wax, and slow as crap. Structure is good, but without wax, you're not going anywhere. Get a stone grind, have them set the base bevel at 1 degree, and have them wax it (usually standard in a "full tune/stone grind". If you can tune your stuff at home, I'd suggest 4+ waxings before taking the board out on the snow, as to semi saturate the base with wax. As for a shop...Nestors in Whitehall. Quote
Saber70x Posted January 7, 2010 Author Report Posted January 7, 2010 thanks, yea, i was looking for a shop, I would then do all my prep I usually run 1 degree base edge, 3 side for angles, and i generally wax many times with a warm wax to open the base up then another to transition to my normal waxes i use. Quote
Saber70x Posted January 7, 2010 Author Report Posted January 7, 2010 Let me clarify, I have been told that they do not like to go too far as they do not want the edges to do any damage to their stone not so much the stone doing damage to edges. Quote
Humbleslc Posted January 8, 2010 Report Posted January 8, 2010 Are you edge high, if not it will not matter, but if you are edge high you could possibly damage a stone. Quote
RidgeRacer Posted January 9, 2010 Report Posted January 9, 2010 I highly recommend and take mine to Peterson's in Blakeslee...They do a great job. Quote
Saber70x Posted January 9, 2010 Author Report Posted January 9, 2010 not edge high, but snowboard bases generally are not the flattest things, and one of them that i had a shop here do did not come out the best because they did not want to go further or did not want to tell me what to do with the edges so that we could get even perfect structure over the entire base Quote
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