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Taking Care

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After a professional skies, his skies must be properly taken care of. This is not such an easy process, and takes at least 2 hours, if done by hand, not machinery.

This is basic ski wax in different colors. This is a iron used to melting the waxing onto the ski, slowly distributing the wax evenly.

This is a basic scrapper, used to take the access wax of of the ski and the edges after it dries. The 2nd picture is a finer tool used to help refine and make smoother.

The first picture refines and tunes the edges , and makes the sharper depending to what degree you want them. Finally, this brush finishes hte job, leaving the ski smooth, sharp, and just like new.