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More than I care to admit. It literally kills me on the inside to do this. Agreed. Maybe it varies by location, not sure where in the great white north you live but in the west, profiling is extremely common. When I lived in Seattle I spent a lot of time in Vancouver and the best pro shops there tend to sell a profile with almost every pair of skates or steel. The stores I owned in Seattle also saw many players visit from the north and many players were excited we had ProSharp machines since that wouldn't "ruin their profiles." I would note many players don't even know they have or have had a profile. For example, anyone skating on Bladetech steel is skating on a profile since they come with a triple radius. Byonic also has a dual radius profile applied out of the box. Keep in mind that profiling can be something as simple as shaving the toe, or applying a single radius, such as an 11' profile on new steel with a minor forward pitch. It doesn't always need to be something fancy. Typical players just know they like one steel more than another, not even understanding that various brands have different profiles applied from the factory or have different steel shapes.

If you know what happened to the steel before, and the profiler knows his job, it should be the same.

No Worries, I'm just a guy that loves helping people dial in their skates the way they like em 😉 . I hardly even charge people if they want to try a new profile or something like that. If I do, it's like $20. I just did this fellow's skates with an OMNI... After years of sharpenings, he had a banana'd blade and no blade contact with the ice. I ground that back a little, and put an OMNI Profile on there and bang. Things are great for him, and I'm so happy. Also, Someone mentioned if you put a profile on the blade, can you go back... the answer is yes, you can.

And we still don't know about the detailed construction of the profile(angles, length of the radii, pivot point and so on).

Hell of a first post there……