George Cleveland wrote:
Just found an old set of woodies at a resale shop. The bases are in
fairly good shape. The tops have the finish scraped/worn off in a few
spots. Does anyone know what was normally used on the tops of wood
skis?

Sometimes tinplate is mundanely used to patch wooden skis.

All the best, Timo

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Prof. Timo Salmi ftp & http://garbo.uwasa.fi/ archives 193.166.120.5
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http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/ ; FIN-65101, Finland
Cross-country skiing page: http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/info/timoski.html