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I never took an official stance on this product because I never had the opportunity to operate it; I had talked to a few members about how it performed and it all seemed positive, but then again, those members didn't have my background - they either didn't have manual sharpening experience, or if they did have sharpening experience, it wasn't at a commercial scale. All being said, Steve reached out to me to let me demo the machine, so they sent me a demo unit. Sparx offers a concierge service of sorts for their NHL teams in which they fly out to your location to set up the machine for them. Instead of doing that, I asked them if we could do it at SummerJam in Toronto, so that way he can then also show it off at the event. Steve came in Friday with the machine and I was able to get one of the ballrooms at the hotel and so we set it up in there. It wasn't what I was expecting. The machine is well-thought out, with a simple interface for the end user. As far as the sharpenings are concerned, once again, was pleasantly surprised. The machine was a bit loud - he attributed it to grinding over an existing hollow - but we ended up with sharp, square edges, a smooth finish, no disruption of the profile and minimal heat, which is all you can ask for in a sharpening. If one of those tenets I just listed is not achieved, you simply don't have a good sharpening. We went with 3/4 Fire (I'm typically a 90/50 FBV so I wanted the shallowest they had) and did them on a backup set of steel. I ended up sticking with the sharpening for my entire session at SummerJam. I set up the machine today and will sharpen for some of my staff to see what they think. As stated previously, I think they've proven that their machine has a place in this market - people seem to be satisfied with the end result; they're getting a consistent result. I'd like to thank Steve and Russ for setting this up. I'm willing to answer questions as far as sharpening is concerned, but I think there are more experienced members on the operations side. I've only used it twice!

From what I was told, if the scans and pics sent by the LHS to True/SVH aren't up to spec, they will let them know and the LHS will call you to come back in for another scanning session. That definitely made me feel more comfortable.

Very cool, I'll keep you updated as to how my delivery time goes. We should be getting ours around the same time :)