Skiboard Tuning

[radikal]

Hey guys, how hard is it to do the basic maintenance (waxing/edge tuning/p-tex) on skiboards? I've never owned stuff before last year, only rented, but I finally broke down and bought a pair of skiboards from this site. Now it is starting to snow, and I need to get my stuff in shape, and I'm not too excited about paying the shop (they want like 25 bucks for wax/edges) to tune stuff up for me all the time if I can buy some supplies for 50$ and be able to do it myself for awhile.

How hard is it to do that stuff? I'd rather do it myself, but I would be irritated if I jacked up my edges or something permanantly.

Does anyone have suggestions on technique or tools to buy? I've done a little googling, and so far I think i need an old iron, some hot wax, a plastic scraper, an edge tuner, and something abrasive to rough it up with.

I have a pair of old junk skis that the biding ripped out of that I will practice on if I decide to go the DIY route.

Any suggestions would be appreciated, like I said, I'd rather do this stuff myself than pay a shop all the time, but I would be really sad if I messed up my skiboards, bc I had so much fun on them last season :)

[matthew]

p-texing isent hard just get a stick of p-tec(should have some at a ski shop) light the stick on fire and drip it in to cuts in your bases then get a steel scraper and scrape it so its flat with your bases

for hot waxing you take the wax and melt it on with an iron then smooth it out with the iron let it dry on and scrape all the extra off you can use the steel scraper i wouldent use plastic i dont think it would work as well as a steel one and make sure for p-texing and waxing when you scrape make sure you hold the scraper so its on both edge's so you dont mess up your edges

and as for tuneing your edges i just run it thru some thing that tunes them for you

if you need to know anything more let me know i tune skis snow boards and skiboards for like 3 weeks after every season