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Cheap, and better specified than the shelf
An edge sharpener, a skate sharpener, an avalanche probe, a six-piece file set, a vise adapter and a waxing kit.
Specification where it is least expected. The probe is the cheapest on its shelf and among the best documented: 7075-T6 alloy, 10 mm diameter, 189 g, packing to 47 cm. The skate sharpener is the only tool on its shelf to name a hollow radius — 12.5 mm. The edge sharpener rolls over the base on ball bearings instead of scraping the wax off it.
The vise entry is the honest oddity: the cheapest thing on that shelf is not a vise at all, but the adapter that makes the vise you own fit a wider ski, and the listing says so.
The six-piece file set publishes no tooth count for its own file, on a shelf where every loose file publishes one.
90–85° detented, four ball-bearing rollers, reversible file
The only tool here that rolls over the base instead of scraping the wax off it.
Best for: Someone who waxes their own skis and does not want to redo it after every edge touch-up
≈ €55
12.5 mm hollow, two diamond-coated rollers, 69 × 21 × 45 mm, 113 g
The only tool here that names a hollow radius — and one of two listings selling the identical product.
Best for: A hockey skater whose blades are already ground to a 12.5 mm hollow
≈ €25
The only box here that is guide and file and diamonds at once, and the dearest thing on the shelf.
Best for: Somebody starting from nothing who would otherwise buy a guide, a file and a diamond set
The cheapest thing on this shelf is not a vise at all — it is the part that makes the vise you own fit a wider ski.
Best for: Someone whose vise fits their old skis and not their new ones
The cheapest kit on this shelf, and one of six here that includes the iron.
Best for: A first kit, for somebody who has never waxed a ski
The cheapest probe here and one of the best specified: alloy, diameter, weight and packed length all given.
Best for: A first probe, and the deepest reach on this shelf under 80 €
The live figure beside a product went and asked the shop for it the moment this page opened; any amount written into the text has not moved since the sentence was drafted, and it is the first of the two that counts.
