and you’ll likely find a very large and very expensive machine mounted to the wall or affixed to a ski tuning bench. It’s called a Wax Future, made by the Austrian ski maintenance equipment behemoth ...

Steve Janisch irons wax onto a snowboard, a 1980s ski movie playing on a TV in his ... Last fall, Janisch found a green base grinder machine on eBay and drove to Massachusetts to pick it up.