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My ever growing collection.

The reason I've come back to this post is because recently I was getting numbness only in my left foot despite having the skate much looser than my right skate. One day I removed the tongue and noticed that the felt edge was folded under at some places. Because of the great wrap of these skates, inserting the tongue when putting on the skates caused the edge to roll under. I guess it ended up cutting off circulation in the blood vessels on top of the foot. To fix this, after straightening out the felt edge, I used a vice to compress the felt all around the tongue so that it tapers towards the edge. That made the felt edge thinner and a bit stiffer so it's easier to insert the tongue between the foot and the eyelets when putting on the skate. Hopefully this tip will be helpful.