How to Make a Ski Waxing Stand

You can set up a variety of homemade surfaces for waxing skis: almost anything on which you can place skis and bindings securely or attach ski vises can be a waxing stand. But if you are regularly doing complete ski tune-ups, you may want something more stable than the cheapest homemade options.

Things You'll Need

  • 2 saw horses or brackets and lumber make your own
  • Ski vises
  • Ironing board
  • Picnic table or long folding table
  • Workbench or dimensional lumber to improvise a workbench
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Instructions

    • 1

      Place your ski binding down over two sawhorses, with one sawhorse near the tip and one near the tail. If you do not have saw horses, you can make a saw horse using two inexpensive sawhorse brackets and five lengths of two-by-four.

    • 2

      Clamp ski vises onto an ironing board as another option. Ironing boards are good flame-resistant adjustable-height surfaces for ski tuning. Remove the cover from the ironing board before waxing your skis and replace the cover before ironing clothes.

    • 3

      Attach ski vises or holders to the edge of a six-foot-long picnic table or folding table as an alternative.

    • 4

      Use any fixed workbench to which you can clamp or attach ski holders or vices. If you do not have a workbench, you can build a narrow one against the wall of a garage using a six foot length of 1-inch-by-12-inch dimensional lumber and legs cut from 2-by-4s. Bench kits are available at home-improvement stores as well.

    • 5

      Buy a portable ski tuning table from an outdoor-sports retailer.