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Originally Posted by NJ SHREDDER 28
but the thing is, ive never had a bevel befoer in my life. I dont know how much bevel I will want or if I will want one at all. Its not worth risking the edges on my brand-new-never-before-ridden board.
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You don't have to worry about losing your edge or damaging your new board unless say you bevel you base edge 2 or 3 degrees and then decide to go back to a one degree base bevel if you go back and forth several times yep, you will eat into your edges...if you bevel, or have a shop bevel your Jibstick base edge at 3 degrees and leave it that way and bevel it that way everytime no worrie.
A tehnique shops (and I use) is to take a sharpy magic marker on the full length of the edges..When you bevel you are only beveling the EDGE of the Edge..;Capiche ?? no worries mate.
Beveling your base edge more than one degree just makes your board less grabby, hooky what ever you want to call. This is most beneficail for park rat jbbing boards. I once knew a cat who beveled his base edges 3 degrees and the dulled the entire edge with a file and gummy stone...of course, the board was only used to Jib. one other note if you use the Sharpie technique, you can see what you are doing and how much EDGE you are removing..always use a file judiciously and carefully.