Gummy stone vs burrs? - Snowboarding Forum

Phenom · 02-20-2008, 12:09 AM

I went to a board shop to buy some hot wax and I was talking to the guy about edge maintenance and stuff like that. He told me it would be a good idea to buy a gummy stone to clean up the edges after ever couple days on the mountain. They had two types, a hard stone and a soft stone. I bought the hard stone. Anyway, I looked at my edges after one day of a lot of runs through the park and they were a little chewed up in some spots so I tried smoothing it down with the stone. I soon realized that the stone doesn't really do much. Edges are still pretty rough, and I scraped it up and down the edges a decent amount of times with not much improvement. Am I missing something?

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Phenom Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: New York Posts: 649	Gummy stone vs burrs? I went to a board shop to buy some hot wax and I was talking to the guy about edge maintenance and stuff like that. He told me it would be a good idea to buy a gummy stone to clean up the edges after ever couple days on the mountain. They had two types, a hard stone and a soft stone. I bought the hard stone. Anyway, I looked at my edges after one day of a lot of runs through the park and they were a little chewed up in some spots so I tried smoothing it down with the stone. I soon realized that the stone doesn't really do much. Edges are still pretty rough, and I scraped it up and down the edges a decent amount of times with not much improvement. Am I missing something? __________________ East Coast Park Rat 2008 Burton Twin 157 w/ Rome 390 Boss 2005 Burton Canyon 168 w/ Ride LS "its ppl like you, that I would "impact damage" your face if i ever saw you keep your mouth shut. one more time, please and thank you." -user: chingy_

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