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Product Description
This clever sidewall cutter uses roller bearings to travel smoothly along the edge of the ski or snowboard. It includes two titanium blades, a round one and a square one, to better match individual sidewall profiles. The blades are adjustable on the horizontal plane, but cut at a fixed depth (which we find to be accurate). When switching from round to square the tool is simply rotated 180°, no need to remove blades...simple!
- Includes both round and square titanium blades
- Tool-free adjustment.
- Replacement blades are available.
- Includes allen key for blade replacement.
- Made in Italy.
Why Remove Sidewall Material?
The files used to tune skis are generally high quality and do a fantastic job at cleanly cutting the hard steel edges found on modern skis and snowboards, but they are terrible at removing sidewall material, it simply gums-up the file. If you've ever run a file down the side edge and just couldn't get it to bite it may be that the file was running on sidewall material which inhibited it from contacting the edge. As skis are tuned over time the steel edges become flush with the sidewall, once the two are flush it is time to remove a bit of the sidewall material so the file can cut the edge cleanly. The most accurate method to remove the material is with a sidewall cutter (also called a sidewall planer), these tools are adjustable so that just enough material is removed, usually less than 1mm, just enough so the file can get a bite.
Tips:
- Remove just enough material so the file can get a bite (less the 1mm).
- Use minimal pressure on the tool, allow the tool to do the cutting.
- One long pass is preferable.
- If you get chatter marks on the sidewall (usually from to much pressure) use a bit of sandpaper to smooth them out.
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Swix sidewall cutter racing
An excellent product that makes quick work of sidewall removal to permit edge sharpening and honing. Removes a thin, continuous curl of material. Easy enough for a rookie like me to use. Practice on rock skis to get the depth of cut optimized.
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Swix Sidewall cutter racing
works as advertised. I found that if I did one pass with the round cutter and then a second pass with the square cutter it worked fine.
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Fantastic!
You get both cutter types in one tool, and it's adjustable. Quality product.
