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Booker C. Bense
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These Karhu are waxable but do have negative fishscale. I have no idea
how can I wax (I mean gripwaxes and klisters) waxable skis with a
fishscale. I suspect the pattern was made in the ski shop.

_ Highly unlikely. Those are waxless skis.

So what does 'sintered waxable base' (written on the base) mean??


_ It means you can hot wax the skis and it will penetrate the
base. Ptex can either be extruded ( bad ) or sintered.
The best no-wax skis are made with sintered bases and either
a positive or negative pattern. The less good ones are extruded
and can't really be hot waxed.

_ Waxless skis are poorly named, they all need some kind of glide
wax to work effectively ( both for glide and kick ). The kick
section won't grip unless the snow slides off easily.

_ I would suggest either taking the skis back or trying kicker
skins. They also may be too long for you as well, most of the
newer skis are meant to be skied shorter. If the ski shop really
did carve a pattern into the base, then I would return them
ASAP. A ski meant for kick waxing is generally going to be too stiff
to work well with a homemade negative pattern base.

_ Booker C. Bense

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