The Wax and Tune Ya Goon Thread

[Jabilitation]

My super DOA has a significant structure/pattern to it. Ive never owned a capita so I can’t speak with any experience to their factory tunes outside of this board. It even makes a whooshing sound across the snow, like a pair of windbreaker pants being worn by a sprinter.

On the other hand my Nobile made Korua had a shit tune from the factory. The base sticker said finished with a belt grind, I ended up taking it in for a stone grind and it made a world of difference. A couple pictures for reference. The Korua base is after stone grind. The capita base is how I bought it.

[SJF_NH]

Maybe I got a lemon or their tunes aren't optimized for Sierra snowpack, but my Aeronaut base is sloooooow.

You might be onto something regarding Sierra snowpack, I only say that because I had an Aeronaut last season, mine had an obvious structure in the base and was fast as hell here in the frozen east. I sold it before we ever got any soft snow, so maybe it's not good in better snow, so my experience could be an outlier.

[pow_hnd]

Maybe I got a lemon or their tunes aren't optimized for Sierra snowpack, but my Aeronaut base is sloooooow.

You might be onto something regarding Sierra snowpack, I only say that because I had an Aeronaut last season, mine had an obvious structure in the base and was fast as hell here in the frozen east. I sold it before we ever got any soft snow, so maybe it's not good in better snow, so my experience could be an outlier.

Absolutely need structure in high moisture content snow if you want to fast consistently. No wax can break suction when the moisture is high, that is where structure comes into play

My super DOA has a significant structure/pattern to it. Ive never owned a capita so I can’t speak with any experience to their factory tunes outside of this board. It even makes a whooshing sound across the snow, like a pair of windbreaker pants being worn by a sprinter.

On the other hand my Nobile made Korua had a shit tune from the factory. The base sticker said finished with a belt grind, I ended up taking it in for a stone grind and it made a world of difference. A couple pictures for reference. The Korua base is after stone grind. The capita base is how I bought it.

Yes, I would say I put Korua bases on the save level as Mervin. Not bad, but not good. I got mine both ground and a Phantom treatment out of the wrapper.

I’m riding Cardiff’s now, their bases are crazy fast. Black graphite race bases on every model.

[scrub]

I rode my 20106 Flight attendant today, the base on this thing was super fast until a base grind last season. It has taken a while to regain that speed, but it felt pretty good today after a fresh layer of Hertel. Pre-base grind my Burton Stun Gun was also really fast but was noticeably slower post-grind so I hope another wax or two will get it back to where it was.

[eleveneightnate]

My super DOA has a significant structure/pattern to it. Ive never owned a capita so I can’t speak with any experience to their factory tunes outside of this board. It even makes a whooshing sound across the snow, like a pair of windbreaker pants being worn by a sprinter.

On the other hand my Nobile made Korua had a shit tune from the factory. The base sticker said finished with a belt grind, I ended up taking it in for a stone grind and it made a world of difference. A couple pictures for reference. The Korua base is after stone grind. The capita base is how I bought it.

The Super DOA’s structure is too much IMO. It makes the board wanna straight line instead of getting slashy and sideways with it, which is weird for an aggressive park twin haha.

[Blessed420]

My super DOA has a significant structure/pattern to it. Ive never owned a capita so I can’t speak with any experience to their factory tunes outside of this board. It even makes a whooshing sound across the snow, like a pair of windbreaker pants being worn by a sprinter.

On the other hand my Nobile made Korua had a shit tune from the factory. The base sticker said finished with a belt grind, I ended up taking it in for a stone grind and it made a world of difference. A couple pictures for reference. The Korua base is after stone grind. The capita base is how I bought it.

The Super DOA’s structure is too much IMO. It makes the board wanna straight line instead of getting slashy and sideways with it, which is weird for an aggressive park twin haha.

[eleveneightnate]

Have you ridden it? I'm curious if you've experienced the same. My ‘22 had crazy deep race structure that felt grabby on butters or if you didn’t land perfectly straight. Like OP said, you can actually hear it on snow. I guess I don’t see the point of structure like that on a park board, but maybe it's conditions-dependent. Had a few buddies get base grinds to remove it, too.

Edit: I hate to quote TGR, but he describes it here:

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[bagis]

Here is regular DOA base structure. Feels fast.

[eleveneightnate]

Here is regular DOA base structure. Feels fast.

The regular DOA's base is great, it (luckily) doesn't have the Super's structure.

[Jabilitation]

Waxed the Super DOA two more times. It’s now got two prep coats and 8 or 9 all temp. The base is starting to feel like what I’m used to in my other decks. The heavy structure was not something I’ve dealt with before. It’s a fun board and really lively, but I’m on the fence if I want to keep it. I rode the doa Otto and back to doa over a three day period and I feel the Otto is a better fit for me at the moment. If anybody is interested in the super doa let me know.