Edge cracks on On3ps

Ski edges crack, some faster than others. I've skied many different brands, every single pair of skis ive had, the edges crack. I've had edges crack as earlier as yours did and some only get 2 cracks in two years.

So the answer is no, its not a factory blem, the number ski they build isnt weaker, #1 is just as strong as any other. This is normal for park skis and what likely happened is after the edge cracked once, it became much weaker and thus getting more cracks.

My advice is just watch the cracks, edge cracks aren't the end of the world and will stay in tact for a long time baring any further damage. If any edge starts to separate, epoxy it immediately and you'll be fine. If the edge starts to come out, take it out and epoxy the ski where the edge is missing so your core doesn't deteriorate. I would ski park skis with edge cracks forever, as long as you don't hit a rock or slam you ski on a rail, the edges should stay in your ski.

boycott ONEP

Just hitting hard, I have some on3p and the edges get dented when I use em really hard

Instead of posting on here and broadcasting it to the entire world send Scott a polite email and he'll sort everything out.

**This post was edited on Feb 12th 2018 at 10:45:14pm

BondyInstead of posting on here and broadcasting it to the entire world send Scott a polite email and he'll sort everything out.
Don't post a thread like this If you haven't talked to him first

get off your white horse. this isn't and doesn't come across as a callout thread. dude is just curious about other's experiences with edge cracks. sending a company an email for every edge crack is fuck absurd.

From my experience with many different skis they will all crack at some point given the nature of the abuse. Something I’ve found to be extremely helpful at getting less edge cracks is very counter intuitive to being able to hold an edge but hell it works. Before you even set foot on a set of skis. Take a grinder of sorts and dull the crap out of your edges underfoot and an inch or two infront and behind the bindings. I’ve been on my vishnus a total of 25 Days this season so far not a single edge crack.

If you ride rails, your edges will crack

Edge craks will happen sooner or later when you hit rails. The edges are made out of steel which will heat up when you hit rails. When the steel are heating up, the metal will start a process, recrystallization. This will start a change in the steel's microstructure. Along with all the stress, they become weaker, and more "crispy". When you repeat this process, they won't become any better. The metal is very tin, and when you are railing (Jump high and land hard on the rail), you expose them to a lot of mechanical stress. When the metal reheat, and expanding, this mechanical stress will eventually drag/pull you're weaker metal apart, and you have yourself an edge crack. How long you are sliding, how long the steel cools down inbetween, where you ski, which climate you expose you're skis to, all matters. The manufactors who makes these steel edges, massproduces this product. In this making process, slight changes to the steel may happen. So you may have a slight stronger edge on one ski, than another. But no metal edge used today, will hold this abuse you expose them too, when railing, forever. Today's metal edges are not made for railing. Possibly, you could find another metal who would work better. But it takes a lot of testing, money and work to find a new metal who will not crack, and not be too soft. I think i read in one post, from a ski company here, that they heard with some metallurgist about finding a new and better edge-metal. But they couldn't find one, who were better and didn't cost a fortune. Because sadly, park/freestyle skis isn't the world biggest market.

And, ON3P, and i think every other skicompany, buys their steel edges from another company. So it's hard for a company to make factory blem, when they're not making this actuall product themself.

This is no hate on you OP or any other who asks about edge cracks. It suck's that brand new skis(or any ski) gets cracks. But people need to realize that edge cracks isn't the ski factories fault. It may happen, in some cases, that the fault is on the ones who produces the metal(Mistakes happen). But in almost every ocasion, it's the metal's own fault. Sadly.

This comes from a happy skier, on ON3P Magnus and Line Blend. Both with a lot of edge craks.
*Sorry my english is bad, i'm from Norway

BondyInstead of posting on here and broadcasting it to the entire world send Scott a polite email and he'll sort everything out.

**This post was edited on Feb 12th 2018 at 10:45:14pm

Sort it out, as in---what?

Edge cracks from jibbing are not a warranty issue. There isn't a ski on the market that won't suffer damage from hitting rails consistently.

Since every ski edge cracks, just get a ton of friends in on a bulk order of alibaba skis so everyone has 5 skis for the price of 1 standard ski so that way when one ski goes bad you can just swap the bindings over. Ski immortality achieved.

[URL]https://www.alibaba.com/showroom/twintip-skis.htm[/URL]l

LiteratureSort it out, as in---what?

Edge cracks from jibbing are not a warranty issue. There isn't a ski on the market that won't suffer damage from hitting rails consistently.

HG skis has full warranty on rails, urban, and stuff

Durham.the.skierHG skis has full warranty on rails

Sounds like a great way to go out of business.

Edge cracks come more from neglect and less from the build of the ski. Sure, if you're hitting urban like Cam Riley, you're going to blow out edges a lot faster than usual, but rarely is there someone skiing at that level.

Hitting rails? Detune your brand new skis. Swap which feet you put them on every day. Address dents and cracks immediately. Bevel out and re-detune sections that start to get worn down. Don't leave the skis on your car rack overnight. Dry off the edges after skiing, rust is a bitch.

5+ years of hitting basically only rails and have had

**This post was edited on Feb 13th 2018 at 7:53:45pm

Did you get them from mort?

OlavsbaaEdge craks will happen sooner or later when you hit rails. The edges are made out of steel which will heat up when you hit rails. When the steel are heating up, the metal will start a process, recrystallization. This will start a change in the steel's microstructure. Along with all the stress, they become weaker, and more "crispy". When you repeat this process, they won't become any better. The metal is very tin, and when you are railing (Jump high and land hard on the rail), you expose them to a lot of mechanical stress. When the metal reheat, and expanding, this mechanical stress will eventually drag/pull you're weaker metal apart, and you have yourself an edge crack. How long you are sliding, how long the steel cools down inbetween, where you ski, which climate you expose you're skis to, all matters. The manufactors who makes these steel edges, massproduces this product. In this making process, slight changes to the steel may happen. So you may have a slight stronger edge on one ski, than another. But no metal edge used today, will hold this abuse you expose them too, when railing, forever. Today's metal edges are not made for railing. Possibly, you could find another metal who would work better. But it takes a lot of testing, money and work to find a new metal who will not crack, and not be too soft. I think i read in one post, from a ski company here, that they heard with some metallurgist about finding a new and better edge-metal. But they couldn't find one, who were better and didn't cost a fortune. Because sadly, park/freestyle skis isn't the world biggest market.

And, ON3P, and i think every other skicompany, buys their steel edges from another company. So it's hard for a company to make factory blem, when they're not making this actuall product themself.

This is no hate on you OP or any other who asks about edge cracks. It suck's that brand new skis(or any ski) gets cracks. But people need to realize that edge cracks isn't the ski factories fault. It may happen, in some cases, that the fault is on the ones who produces the metal(Mistakes happen). But in almost every ocasion, it's the metal's own fault. Sadly.

This comes from a happy skier, on ON3P Magnus and Line Blend. Both with a lot of edge craks.
*Sorry my english is bad, i'm from Norway

Thanks Bill Nye

john18061806Sounds like a great way to go out of business.

Yea

Durham.the.skierYea

Too soon?

BondyInstead of posting on here and broadcasting it to the entire world send Scott a polite email and he'll sort everything out.

**This post was edited on Feb 12th 2018 at 10:45:14pm

This isn’t some lame ass callout thread. If it was i would make it known. I was simply asking others on here who own or have owned ON3Ps if their edges had cracked as much as mine, and if not why mine had cracked more than others.

Durham.the.skierHG skis has full warranty on rails, urban, and stuff

That's cool that they offer such an option, but it's hardly a "warranty" insofar as it's their promise that they'll do what they can to make it right if they screw something up in the making and delivery of the product to you.

Jib damage from rails, rocks, whatever is entirely optional. Nobody says you have to hit rails, and not a single ski out there is designed to slam into them week after week, forever.

Warrantying your ski because your edge cracked or you broke it jibbing is sort of like taking a skateboard back after you broke it and going, "hey, this broke." You'd get a "no, really? Buy a new deck." The only difference is that, in skiing, people throw down for their skis and companies want to keep customer loyalty and happiness, so they "warranty" damage that's clearly just use (that is inherently destructive) instead of telling people to own what they're doing to their stuff.

What any company that warranties against park/urban damage is betting is that the losses they take in replacing product are worth the extra sales they get in terms of loyalty or putting out such a "warranty."