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Slate Blackcurrant Watermelon Strawberry Orange Banana Apple Emerald Chocolate Marble
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  1. 2 points
    Those are perfect! Exactly what I was using, but I had the blue ones! I was actually in a Large. They were tight and fit how I liked, I just Hulked through them after a bout a year and a half, but hey man this is perfect. Let's PM for shipping and address and THANK YOU!!
  2. 1 point
    I had that feeling for the last 6 months or so that I played (August-December 2018), after a good 5 year run of playing all the time from about 2013-2018. I was forced to take a break when I moved and had a gear failure that I never repaired/ replaced, and am starting to get the itch to play again now. So yea, this 9 month break or so is having me feel reborn! (and thanks to @SkateWorksPNW, I am getting that piece of gear on Monday, gifted via the MSH brotherhood. About to go get my skates sharpened and shoot some pucks (dryland) at HockeyMonkey in a bit, figure I will be on the ice within a week.
  3. 1 point
    What size are you? I have a pair of these you can have if you pay for shipping. They are a size large. I bought them and never used them. https://photos.app.goo.gl/aWDwJK5jVT2SsmEZ6
  4. 1 point
    A little update. I had a second biliary drain placed today. Not as painful as I feared. The placed it under my sternum near the top of my transplant scar. So no major muscle or cartilage to cut through. I was admitted to make sure I don’t spike a fever. If my labs are better in the morning then they’ll cap the older drain. For the moment it looks like the drain was placed correctly and is draining. hopefully I should be heading home tomorrow afternoon. It would be nice if things went like they should and be drain free by New Year’s Day. P.S. no roommate so far. That’s two thumbs up.
  5. 1 point
    Hey Oilers, I am in your boat but not quite to the same extreme. I'm in a 9ee and my foot is roughly 4.25" across at widest point. I went so far as tracing my foot on a piece of wood 3/4" thick wood (standard 1 x 6 nominal board) and cutting it out, then contouring the edges slightly sanding basically making a replica of my foot. Had to cut it off about where the arch is cause boots arent flat and also to get it in the boot. Heel area not necessary. Anyhow made a few relief cuts going up the piece of wood not all the way to the toes so it would squeeze a bit smaller in order to shove it in the boot. Then I baked skate nice and hot and jammed that piece of wood in there and laced up the first few eyelets lol. Forefoot actually sat flat after that! It was a used skate I experimented on but it did work. Definitely looked pretty duck-like afterward. I look at other people's feet in skates and I wonder what their foot looks like in the boot cause mine would need to be rolled under like a tortilla to make those shapes.
  6. 1 point
    There's so many different things that could be coming into play with what you're asking. I'll leave comments on profiling, adjusting holder pitch, etc. to other people on the boards who know much more than me about those things. In regards to Superfeet, I've been a big believer in them, as I've used them in both skates and shoes/sneakers. (I no longer used them in skates now having Trues though). The important thing to note is that Superfeet are not arch support insoles; rather they are heel stabilizers, that align your heel and adjust accordingly. This could be why you're having issues with them. Depending on your anatomy, Superfeet can actually have a negative effect (though in most instances positive effects are achieved). You might be better served with an insole specifically for arch support like Speeplates or the new CCM Orthomoves.
  7. 1 point
    That is a very good question. smu’s experience suggests True can struggle with odd feet. Clearly Bauer start from a given stock model, but how far they can accommodate differences is unclear. Maybe shop owners can chip in.
  8. 1 point
    There are ton's of threads on custom skates. If you do some searching you may get some more info. A quick rundown though Bauer and CCM are pretty similar in that you get your feet scanned they make boot recommendations for you. You go and try on those boot recommendations and they build your custom skate off of that recommendation and your 3D foot print out. Both companies recommend you stay within the family they put you in. So if they say you're a Nexus you shouldn't try and ask for a Vapor without at least trying on a retail model and seeing how it fits. That being said though their recommendation may not be the best choice for you either. These are computers you need to go with what fits the best retail wise. While doing the process your fitter will be able to add notes to the order and you'd have some input with those notes as well (for example by pinky toe rubs in the retail skate). Both companies have been making custom skates for a very long time so they know what they are doing. True skates are a little different in the sense they do not have a retail counterpart you can try on to really nail the sizing down. They scan your feet and usually ask you for the size and model of your current skate and build you a skate. You also have a spot where you or your fitter can enter in notes about how you would like your skate built. There is a 100+ page thread on True skates alone. Read through it if you are considering these. If you are considering customs the best advice is figure out which brand you want to go with and try and find a shop/ fitter who has experience doing this. Going to someone who has years of experience fitting people for retail and custom skates will be a much more enjoyable experience than some high school kid making $14 an hour counting down the minutes till their shift is over.
  9. 1 point
    In the post it says "You can adjust length in the order submission but width is not an option as the custom last process shapes the skate to your individual foot (L and R). At any time during this process you want to make additional notes to your foot scan, you can." and that is coming from the Product Manager. I don't think anyone can say for certain you can request a AA heel. The best you could do is in the notes make a comment that you have a very narrow heel. In the past they have made C width retail skates. Like any other custom product you will probably have put a little faith in the process and give them as much info as you can. I would also recommend trying to find a shop that has experience in custom skates. At least with Bauer and CCM both companies have customer facing documentation that say they are making a 3D print out of your foot and building your custom skate off of it.
  10. 0 points
    They checked and said there were no plugs, (first thing I asked). Honestly though, they were not even close to the correct length. They pulled out the True and Bauer brannocks and measured my feet again. Believe they also went and looked at the original scans. Came back and said no amount of tinkering was going to fix it. I may still give True another shot, but figured I'd take the refund while it was on the table. I can see why people like the skates though because other than being at least a full size too short, the skates felt very comfortable.



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