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By the time you get new holders and pay for installation, I’d consider going the custom route. Buy once, cry once.

From my experiences in lockerooms, lots of guys think of profiling essentially as: guy A: “my new steel is so tall and I keep catching the her and toe” Guy B: “the shop can grind down your blades to match the weird messed up shape of your old blades.“ They know the new steel has too much heel and toe for them, but rather than making any adaptations or learning what profiling actually is, they want the new $100+ runners to be shaped to the same ugly banana radius the shop mangled their old blades too. It’s like they have just enough info to completely confuse and misunderstand what it actually is.

I had a guy come in once and pay $120 to run 120 passes on each of his new LS Pulse TI steel blades on our ProSharp machine to decrease the height. I told him profiling could accomplish the same thing for less and he insisted that he just wanted them shorter, and he didn't want to relearn how to skate. I smiled, said no problem, and tossed them on the machine and let it do its thing. When he came to pick them up, I asked him what to sharpen them to and he told me 3/8". I asked him twice to confirm he did indeed want 3/8" and he confirmed both times. I didn't even bother trying to offer him a more shallow hollow at that point. I knew it was a lost cause. Moral of the story, some people really dislike change.

Have 100k Pro skates here and did a tongue swap for the thicker ones and they fit perfectly. Something is either up with the tongues you purchased or the toe cap. Since the tongues come loose in a box, i wonder if the tongues in the box you were sent were packaged wrong or put into the incorrect box ( by ccm or a customer )

I emailed them to check and the stick I was interested in is out of stock

I love the 4500 helmet. I've been wearing them for nearly 20 years. They fit me perfectly and I think the 4500 combined with the Profile II cage is the best looking combo out there. It's a real shame Bauer is discontinuing it. A ton of NHLers are still wearing the 4500. Even some guys who were wearing more modern helmets have switched to the 4500 relatively recently, like Duchene and Konecny. I just ordered a couple so that I have a stock available for when they run out.

This. Aside from the fact most people don't know what profiling is, the data and expertise to match profiles to players is not there.