I crayon, even at the shop. I always touch wax to iron and then crayon. With snowboards I do either crayon or drip.
This. I maintain some Head Titans for my neighbor. He just picked up a new pair this season. I can't believe how much wax those bases drank! He skied them all week on a Big Sky vacation (hammered bases and edges) but the bases were still greasy. Very impressive base quality in those skis.I find manufactureres of new skis greatly vary, some I can ski 10 days easy without wax, others look horrible after 1-2 days.
what, your allowed to rub things both ways on bases theese days? ref his brushing, and crayoning. all my teachings has always been one way, always, always. looks like a super clean way to do it though.He calls it "pro-glide" now: https://skimd.com/pro-glide
I have (had?) one from him; I was never able to get any sort of decent results from using it. @Steve , do you just rub cold wax on your bases? and then rub it in with Mike's tool?
You can run the iron any way you want. The “danger” is if there’s a burr on the bottom that scratches the bases. (Whether that even matters for direction is another issue.) So, don’t have a scratchy iron.what, your allowed to rub things both ways on bases theese days? ref his brushing, and crayoning. all my teachings has always been one way, always, always. looks like a super clean way to do it though.
He calls it "pro-glide" now: https://skimd.com/pro-glide
I have (had?) one from him; I was never able to get any sort of decent results from using it. @Steve , do you just rub cold wax on your bases? and then rub it in with Mike's tool?
I have been crayoning in LF7 and rubbing it in with a Wax Whiz all season. 45 days so far. My skis run great and the bases look great. I'd been hot waxing for years, now just do it early season with base prep wax and not again all season.
He calls it "pro-glide" now: https://skimd.com/pro-glide
I have (had?) one from him; I was never able to get any sort of decent results from using it. @Steve , do you just rub cold wax on your bases? and then rub it in with Mike's tool?
Huh? Pics!
Here you go. Bonus background pics of Dad's last year of skiing and Tom the Much Younger racing dirt bikes!
fiberlene method i think depends on your exact fiberlene you gotta tune in the temp and drag speed a bit. as if you got swix vs toko vs svst fiberlene vs cheapskate kitchen or garage shop papertowels all different.Also tested different methods with fiberlene cloth between towel and ski, whats the most usual waypeople do it? 1 long sheet across ski? double up & drag? single & drag under?
This thread confused me I guess.
I assumed it was about crayon, then iron the wax.
Just crayon and no iron is usually referred to as "rub-on".
Any wax can be rubbed on. You might need some serious elbow grease for a hard wax!
Personally, I avoid the crayon process (at least with harder waxes). A hard wax brick crayoned aggressively can impact your ski base structure. Get out a magnifying glass and see what a cold wax brick can do to your ski bases.