I brought two fairly new pairs of ski with about 12 days of skiing on each to be waxed and sharpened. The bottoms had no gouges and appeared to be in decent shape. Since I anticipate some ice-skiing this week in Vermont, I wanted sharpened edges.
The shop told me that new skis have textured bottoms which require the full "tuning". A wax and sharpen won't do for these bottoms.
Does anyone have any info about the validity of this? What's the reasoning?
Thanks