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1/2" is pretty deep honestly.......

My shop is 5/8ths or less. Most of my minor midget and up players are going with less. And there all pretty good players. I have maybe 10 out of all my customers at 1/2 only a couple goalies at 3/8ths If the sharpen is level the pressure is even and consistent you dont need to ho so sharp.

I agree with @psulion22 I work part-time in a shop and sharpen my own skates we use the spinner system to dress the wheel. I have been skating at 5/8ths for probably about 10 years. A friend of mine has a sparx and I was curious so I had him cut my skates at 5/8ths. I was there when he did it we did 8 passes on each skate. When I tried them out they didn't feel like they had the same bite as when I do them on the blademaster. The best way to describe what I felt was a 5/8th sharpening that had been skated on once or twice. For me when I no longer have access to a sharpener i'll probably buy the blackstone portable machine. This was mainly a test to see if I would buy a sparx over the blackstone.

I'm more surprised at the amount of people skating on such deep hollows.

3D printed this spacer for my skate since I didn't want to use an orthopedic insole. Used Carbon reinforced Nylon, and swapped to stainless T-nuts and screws.