twelsch42 Posted November 10, 2007 Report Share Posted November 10, 2007 I'm getting noticable edge burn after just one day of easy carving. This is after riding on mostly manmade snow. Even after using some hard powder wax on my edges before a medium-hard wax on my whole base. I'm also fairly confident my iorn is hot enough, if anything approaching too hot. Should I be using different wax for sun-baked manmade snow? Do I need a good base structure so my wax will penetrate better? Anything else I'm missing here? I figured with the x-cold powder on my edges that I could atleast go 2 days without waxing considering how I'm just learning. Thanks twelsch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tex1230 Posted November 11, 2007 Report Share Posted November 11, 2007 Coldtemp wax near the edges 4 or 5 layers, then whatever temp-specific wax you need for the day, If that doesn't work you probably need to hot box Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Donnelly Posted November 11, 2007 Report Share Posted November 11, 2007 A base grind may be in order or you might want to start with Dominators ReNew Zoom http://www.dominatorwax.com/renewzoom.html http://www.bomberonline.com/VBulletin/showthread.php?t=8015 http://www.tognar.com/ http://www.dominatorwax.com/faqs.html#HOWOFTENSHOULDYOUWAXYOURBASE? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gecko Posted November 11, 2007 Report Share Posted November 11, 2007 I've been using One Ball Jay Graphite Wax...never had edge burn and I pretty much only ride on manmade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUD Posted November 11, 2007 Report Share Posted November 11, 2007 How many times has your board been hot waxed? I had to hot wax my Donek 7 times after EVERY ride before I could go a couple of rides without edge burn. Now it has been hot boxed, so it is no longer an issue. Also, do not strip (no wax remover) the wax off your board, if you are, just put the new wax right over the old. The snow does a good job of getting rid of it for us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted November 11, 2007 Report Share Posted November 11, 2007 I put in eight hour days 5-6 days a week. I have tried as many waxing ideas as I know and have been advised. What I have found is that at my size, hard carving on man made snow for 8 hours means waxing every day. There are some man made conditions that will burn your base near the edges in a few runs. I have just learned to live with it. I try to ride different boards and wax the other ones on their days off. BTW, if you do a search on base burn, you will get all of the info from when this topic has been touched on in the past. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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