How to: cut the tails of your skis

[grinch]

Ah nice to see some skis being cut, I want to cut off the twintip part of my Moment Tahoes. Luke from Moment told me I should see on the sidewall where the tail spacers are and where the core begins, but it is all black around and I cant see a difference in material or anything. Think I'll just go for it and seal.
Would you guys advice to cut at the flat part or keep the beginning of the turned up part of the tails, just to keep moving backwards possible?
Oh and I want to cut to twintip part because its impossible to push the tails in the snow and that sucks when I want to get into my tech bindings on top of a line..

http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/s...06#post4346806
no steel edges were harmed in this hatchet job. if your Tahoe is this vintage or similar I wacked them a few mm behind were the edge ends. ended taking 4 cm off the ski and it leaves a bit of rise in the tail as per Big Steve. I think Steve is where I got the idea originally

[NoPostholio]

Done just in time for the hudge noreaster

[thewon]

Cutting this off will def help kick turns. 188cm to 180 cm and 8lbs (139/116/125)

or ya coulda just bought the 178's. tard.

[NoPostholio]

Both tails of this particular ski were previously damaged, so I am just experimenting on them. And a good sativa helped -

^^^^^plus what shorty said

Since you were too lazy to catch up, got them on eBay with speed radicals for 325 — satisfy your curiosity?

[thewon]

Since you were too lazy to catch up, got them on eBay with speed radicals for 325 — satisfy your curiosity?

what's there to catch up on? you paid 325 for a used set of speed radicals with delaminated 180cm rax skis. congrats!

lap.

[NoPostholio]

what's there to catch up on

Maybe the math
Speed radicals for 225 and for a hundo I got a sub eight pound /115 waist ski
Plus taking bindings on and off is fun -

[Shorty_J]

Bump for update.

Toured on the Protests for four days earlier this month. The guiding was good enough that I think I did about 1 kick turn the entire time... quality uptracks were set.

Which is to say that I couldn't really comment on one of the main reasons for chopping them, unfortunately.

They skied great and I couldn't feel any obvious loss of support from the tail like was suggested I might by not moving the binding forward to compensate.

In a couple of sections of heavier snow, I did feel like a slightly forward mount might have been better, but it was more due to a bit of a catchy feeling from the tip, and didn't feel like it had anything to do with the tail.

Everything is holding up perfectly.

[digitaldeath]

seems like a vanity project

[Shorty_J]

seems like a vanity project

Lol... what does that mean?

[CaliBrit]

Bought some Praxis GPO 192's with the UL core a little while ago with this project in mind. I like long skis and ski around a 190 in resort, but I'm 5'10" so kick turns with a ski this big can cost me a few pitchers of beer.....

I now own 185 GPO's:

Measured 2 1/2 inches off the tail and taped. Made some sweet sketches too.


Used a Dremel with regular cut off wheel and 90 degree attachment.


Cut in diagonal from the edge on the first ski, after the path I took later I didn't do this on the 2nd ski. (I know have already made the main cut but I forgot to take a pic!)


Giving it the buisiness


Just the tip!


Couple of trim cuts to get me to the rough shape.


On goes a grinding wheel in normal Dremel configuration for some clean up.


Finished product.





I think the tails look great!


Skin trim and we are done folks.


I give it a 3/10 difficulty rating, took me about 2 hours but I was being pedantic.

Cheers!

[swissiphic]

Ummmm, don't know if there's a thread on this or if there should be...what about an eezee peezee way to add to yer tails? 176cm K2 o.g. Darksides were a bit long in the tip, short in tail, so I balanced the chasis for uber deep days. Happened to have a pair of turned up tails from from Fischer Porohetes kicking around from a tail chop project...ideally the addons would be much lighter and more refined. Didn't get the more consistent bottomless conditions to really test 'em out but a few runs seemed to indicate that they worked as advertised...eezee to remove/add in times of need or unneededness. In the conditions where they're needed, the 'rough cut' concept works fine. Dunno about various crusts and layered snow though, time will tell.

[1000-oaks]

Solid thread, about to whack a pair of old Wailer 99's. Grinding will be outside with a mask, carbon fiber dust isn't good for lungs.

[riff]

Aaaah, swissphic engineering. Five year bump, good to wander those particular thought exercises…..


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[Norseman]

Where is swissific? Last post was a year ago.

[margotron]

Same for GeezerSteve

[Norseman]

Same for GeezerSteve

He's around. Abraham and I ran into him ski touring this past spring.

But swissific seems like the kinda cat that could get hung up skiing gravel roadcuts, never to be seen again cept by bighorns licking salt out of his hat.

[snowaddict91]

Where is swissific? Last post was a year ago.

I was just wondering this the other day. Hopefully he wasn't taken out by a double-sided tape failure.

[Shorty_J]

Interesting bump.

I have a pair of skis I might revisit this project on.

[XXX-er]

or a failed boot butchering OR maybe after providing the photo proof of butchering milk crates Dairyland caught up with him ?

[1000-oaks]

Well that was way easier than expected and came out great. Rock skis so I wasn't fussy about it, only took about ten minutes per ski with Dremel cut off wheel and hack saw, including some minor shaping with 4" flap grinder. Removed 6cm from 185 Wailer 95.

[Shorty_J]

^^^ Nice!

Mostly for kick turns or for other reasons?

[Island Bay]

Anyone done this with Praxis MVPs?

I have a pair of old 187s, and thought of chopping 4-5cm or so off, and cutting a skin clip notch.

Cheers