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z1ggy
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Those new skates do look pretty sick. Love the stealthy blacked out look.
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Gotta agree here. I was so used to how tight retail skates (or loose) were on me, when I got my True's I thought they were horrible fit. Turns out they needed just a mild tweak, essentially only because my fitter decided to not shrink wrap me right off the bat. Once I had them baked and wrapped... they felt so good on the ice. The way the skate fits is just not the same as your retail 1X or FT2, etc. Now that I've spent a few hours in the boot, I'm 100% used to it and I'm all about it. As long as your fitter scanned you properly I see no reason why the boot would be a really bad fit. Little tweaks are to be expected still IMO. I've never had a single skate my entire life that didn't need some kind of adjustment.
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My fitter also put my foot in the size gauge and took a picture of it and sent that along with my filled out form and my scan. This way, there should be 3 methods of confirming the boot length. The length for me was literally spot on, I was extremely impressed. Anybody who is getting a boot that's more than 1/2 size off probably had a mistake made by True in that they literally made you somebody else's boot by mistake (seems unlikely) or your shop guy made a boo-boo somehow. Regardless, your shop just saying oh well here's a refund, go away... that's very sketchy and makes me think they might not know what they are doing. Like i mentioned pages ago when I was going through this process, my shop told me they have made over 500 pairs with no real issues. And I believe them too because my other choice was an even more expensive pair of custom FT2, and they convinced me to go with True, so...It wasn't like they were up selling me True.
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I take most reviews from reddit and places where toxicity seems to run rampant with a grain of salt. My True's were totally fine as far as initial QC goes and unless I run them over with a lawn mower, I don't think that will really change. The shop I got them from told me they have done over 500 pairs and rarely have had major issues. Of course they want to sell skates but as a small time shop I don't think they'd want to carry product that was junk and lose customers or prevent them from coming back due to bad experiences.
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It's not... I think he said like.. Pro.. something? Pro Guard? Let me do a search in the thread and see if anything comes up. Mine are already starting to fray in a few spots, but I like the width and feel of them, want to buy a few pair and also maybe black.
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What are the stock laces in these? My pro shop guy told me but I forgot...
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Yeah I understand what you mean now. I was so used to my feet feeling cramped I thought that was the norm. No foot pain right now other than the top of the tongue isn't broken in yet so it was pressing into my leg a bit. Overall, really like them. Normally after games my feet hurt a bit, sometimes even throbbing.
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On the ice right now... Well ok I'm in the locker room but I just went out for a second before the guy cut the ice... All I can say is wow, so good. I feel on my toes but in a good way. More aggressive boot pitch but I don't feel the heel slop I felt before. Boot is ccrrrazy stiff lol I need to get used to it but I'm loving it so far. Got 5/8 hollow but honestly it's too much, prob going to go 11/16 of possible, if not 3/4. Sry for wall of text, on mobile.
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Yeah i saw VH say 4hours. They cooled down starting around noon. Ice time at 7pm. I'll stick them in right now for an hour just to be 100% safe.
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Getting mine on ice tonight for first time in a pick up. Got them shrink wrapped today which I think helped a tiny bit but I really just need to get them out there and see how it feels. I'm more worried about how long it will take me to adjust to going back to 272 from 280 runner/holder XD
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My guess is nobody really watches the vids. I've gone two to places now (a private shop, and a large box store) and neither seemed to be truly familiar with the videos/process. At least my initial fitting used the shoehorn like instructed and only laced at about 60%, pulled outwards. However, I didn't get the shrink wrap or "Ace bandage" at all, even after complaining of a lack of heel lock. The private shop knows about the shrink wrap though, because I'm going back this weekend to do it. I'm shocked they wouldn't just do it for me right away. I'll be curious to see if they lace my boots up 100% of leave the top 4 eyelets undone like in the video.
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Looks like somebody cranked on those laces wayyyy too hard when the boot was soft, and/or pulled up instead of out/away.
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3 is very reasonable, as that's about what it took for my boots to get done. Was just a bummer for me that my shop probably slacked and didn't order my holders and steel in a timely manner.
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Man I think my FT2 have 11. Mako had 10. And not sure why they did not follow the wrap procedure. I'm still up in the air if I want to have the guy do it or just use my own oven at home and attempt to do it myself. Leaning toward just biting the bullet and going over one last time because I assume another person wrapping my foot will get more compression than myself doing it.
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Yeah I would double check to see if he made a type-o. Understand about the cost, I'm trying to get mine perfectly dialed in as well, it is a lot of $$ to spend.
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Take out a ruler and look...? 1/8'' vs just over 1/2''. Nobody can really answer for you how you will react to what you feel. I got 1/16'' shims put under my old Mako front towers and it was a very noticeable difference in feel for me at first. I would suspect a 9/16'' shim would feel very, very noticeable. Are you sure they said 9/16''? I'm not a skate builder or shop owner but that seems super thick for a skate shim.
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Yeah I live in a weird tiny little suburb where it's literally just houses, no real Home Depot/HF, etc near me. Closest is prob 15-20 mins each way. I'm the type where I'll pay an extra $4 to have it delivered to my house and save myself the 30-40 mins of driving.
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https://www.amazon.com/Stretch-Handle-Pallet-Moving-Supplies/dp/B07HNYX5Y9/ref=sr_1_7?keywords=shrink+wrap&qid=1569250283&s=gateway&sr=8-7 $11 with Prime. How's that stuff look? I assume it's mostly all the same? HF wants to charge me $7 for shipping $8 worth of stuff (and it will probably take a week to get here)
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Ah I see. Okay I'll look on Amazon, which is where I buy like 80% of the stuff I ever need/use anyway. So yes, with the scan I was leaning quite forward so my knee was very much over my toes. I have very skinny heels/low ankle but then it gets thicker fairly fast so I'm hoping getting these nice and soft with a really tight shrink wrap on that bottom heel/low ankle area will help. I'm guessing a lot of that "volume" I feel while standing is because the angle is different. I will get them on the ice for a few hours anyway after wrapping just to give myself a chance to adjust and get the feel for them. Hated the FT2's are first but after like... 2-3 hours in the boot, it's gotten better (Have probably put 8-9 hours on it now). It still hurts my feet a little bit but at least my foot pretty much feels totally locked in.
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I don't think there's a coil on the top of the oven but I have to check. It also looks like VanHorne uses a skinnier roll of saran wrap... I have like a 12 inch wide roll that you'd get at the grocery store.... Anybody know where I can get something a little less wide? Afraid If I kind of smush it together while wrapping that I'll get weird uneven spots from where the wrap forms little knots/bunches up. Guy on the other team last night at my game had True's on.... went up to him and asked if he had any volume or room in his boot at first and he said nope, fits like a glove, etc. So I know something isn't right.... that's 3/3 people in one day telling me I should pretty much feel like the thing is a glove to my foot. I understand the pocket is a little deeper so I will still keep that in mind.
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This is an old school electric oven with coils inside. Youtube says I can heat it up to 180, turn off then put skates inside once coils have cooled down but meh. Will prob try on my old Mako's first just to make sure it doesn't melt anything.
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I went to the closest hockey monkey and got them baked again but I still feel some extra room/slop in the heel and into the foot area. They did the ace bandage thing around my foot but honestly I don't think it did crap. I need the saran wrap method... I have some on hand but I'm nervous to put $1000 skates in my home oven. Maybe I'll experiment first on my mako's to make sure I get the process right.
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So I just measured the "stick out" from the edge of the rear holder to the heel of each of my skates. Now... I still don't know if it's an issue because I just looked and it seems Easton uses 271 holders on their 8.5's and that is what my Mako's are. But, I did just measure the stick out and I'll post the pics below. The True's had only about 1/4'' stick out, with the FT2 and Mako being around 3/8''. What's funny is I remember going into the Jetspeed first skate and thinking wow it seems like I'm on roller blades... it felt super long under my feet, very flat, etc. I thought it was just due to runner radius (coming from Mako's) but now I'm thinking it was because I went up an entire holder size.
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You're totally right about 1 copper rivet in the front, I just looked at my other skates. Maybe if Pure is cool they'll put a copper up front for me. As far as my size here... yeah not 100% but I was told it was 271 holders, so I'll see what the guys at Pure say today if I end up going there. CCM says 280's should be used for 8.5's. Here is a pic I just took... they definitely do look a tad short compared to yours.
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Okay I will buy a brand new box of the saran wrap and tell them to go to town haha. The LHS near me wants to charge me $40 to use their oven lol hopefully the kiddies at Pure are cool and won't charge me... I usually buy some laces or a few other rando items just because I know time isn't free. I do maybe need some new elbow pads....
