Great for "healing" rock scars

Posted by Steve Ghera on 9th Jan 2013

My skis seem to find all the rocks. I use the Green stones to retune. And then follow up with the darker red for a finer tune and lastly with the pink (fine) stones to polish. I don't apply too much pressure (maybe about 5-10 lbs of force or so). I use less force and more reps. Too much force and the ski cuts deep grooves in the stone. I also stop "rubbing" the SkiVisions tool once I feel the stone has stopped cutting. If I rotate and find it not cutting very much, then I consider the sharpening act done. NOTE: this does not make the stone scar go away. It simply sharpens the area so my edge bites the snow. Over time, I find "older scars" do disappear. The directions on the SkiVisions site really need to be followed or you miss the subtleties of how to handle and perceive the feedback from this tool.

I recently had to change the bevel angle of my bottom edge. I used the files that came with the SkiVisions. I tried the green stones for that, but it did not work. Later found on SkiVisions site that you are not to use the stones to change the angle. The files work, but dull quickly. I’m buying the hardens steel skiver and tossing my files. After I beveled the edge, I found the green stone removed the burrs nicely.