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    I am pretty sure G75 players are still on the menu. G75 goalies are also... Talking about goalie skates, is not Graf is who came up with skates shells for the goalie skates among few other goalie skates specific improvements. 

     

    I am glad that they might be coming back to NA. Perhaps, the quality is better this way too.

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    39 minutes ago, Troubadour said:

    What does this mean!? Graf is back!? What's going on!?

    Well, they always been in Europe (it is an European company that had a subsidiary in Canada). I thought they just pulled out of the NA market in lieu of ridiculous competition and failure of the Graf-Canada, but it looks like they are ok and still working on their product lines and want to comeback to NA market... Graf AG (the name of the European company) is still one of the top Hockey and Figure Skating manufacturers in Europe.  So it is likely that Graf will continue on in USA and Canada, but perhaps not as a manufacturing company, but as an Importer.

     

    The "NA and Canada" thing was instigated by me, guy just used the same terminology  when he replied to me. I wrote USA and Canada at first, then changed USA to NA... call me stupid. 

     

     

     

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    6 hours ago, flip12 said:

    Off-topic, but man, outside edge landing leg at the end of that video. Nice shot of good form.

     

    Edit: Forgot I had a point on topic as well...added below.

     

    Another time that part of the blade gets used is in toe-pick-and-carve situations (demonstrated by Cruikshank and Fedorov).

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    I found the local shop didn't round off the toe, so when I'd go to do that, the pointed toe would dig in like a rudder and steer me away from where I was intending to go.

     

    Pretty sweet... I have watched some youtube clips and these moves are works of art. Especially when Datchuk makes a defensman fall on his ass and slide out of the game... 

     

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    1 hour ago, colins said:

     

    I'm tracking which skates I sharpen, how many passes and which ring I used in a spreadsheet (that's normal, right??) because I'm curious about the grinding ring use as well.

     

    From Russ' explanation, it seems pretty straight forward - the machine knows how many passes a grinding ring has made and by the 320th pass, the light is going to indicate the ring is worn out and you should get a new one.

     

    Now from a technical POV, that has me curious... is it the machine storing how many passes it's seen the ring for (that would be somewhat flawed but maybe cheaper to implement), or is the info about the number of passes stored on each ring itself and then transmitted to the machine when it starts up? This would be a better technical solution but I don't know enough about RFID to know if it's practical to put that capability in the RFID chip in the ring itself. The problem with the first approach is obviously when multiple machines are in play and rings get used between different machines, the tracking wouldn't be accurate. 

     

    I had my first skate last night on my touched up edges (just 2 passes as I'd recently had them sharpened and there were no nicks), and my two boys (13 and 15) skated on full 4 pass sharpenings two nights ago. All I can say is we all agreed it's as good as any commercial sharpening we've had. For comparison, I normally will only bring my skates to a buddy (who's a bit of a perfectionist) that owns a Blademaster 850, or to a local shop which uses a CagOne.

     

    If Steve or Russ are checking in on the thread - one question I've got is regarding brand new steel. I know from experience that new steel can be a problem for the first sharpening as peaks and valleys in new blades can create dead spots, and if a shop doesn't take the extra passes necessary to level the blade off the first skate can be a real unpleasant experience (don't learn this for the first time during a big tournament when you break a blade folks!).

     

    How many passes of a regular grinding ring (on average) would you suggest for new steel (assume CCM speed blade hyperglide runners, if it matters?). I'm thinking the cross grinding ring is next on my wishlist, both for new steel prep and cases where a deep nick has to come out.

     

    Colin

     

    RFID in the stone is a pretty good idea. RFIDs are generally have no memory in the to write in, but they have enough memory to store the searial number of the tag (the ID number itself). This ID number is programmable via the RFID reader that reads the tag. Since we do not care about the ID number, the ID number can be the number of passes that the wheel made. You would write the new number at the end of the sharpening cycle and read it in the beginning of the cycle. There could be a finite number of time you can write the tag, but it should be enough to write it 40 times (or whatever the limit of sharpening per wheel  is).

     

    How desirable this is is to be determined. Obviously, chip itself will cost a couple of dollars. But you'd have to put it in the wheel without offsetting its balance. I would expect the cost of the wheel go up $10 at least. Then, you need to add the reader and re-write the machines software to do all this, plust you might need to add a little bit more hardware for communicating with the reader which machine does not have already. If all that adds another $200 to the cost of machine I would not be surprised. That said, if the feature is a must (for example if you switch wheels all the time and move them from one machine to the next, it could worth the effort and additional expense.

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    Pretty sweet. Unfortunately for me, I can see that I will be trying different styles and sizes like a fool. Each wheel is good for 40 sharpenings, Which knowing how they qualify this, would be probably 40 2-path refresshers on a softest blade in 6Y length. This makes probably 10 sharpenings of something harder in size 10-11 Sr skates. I probably, like a fool will go through a wheel in a weeks because I would need to do like 10 passes to put a completely different hollow on. Then obviously, I will eat the runners and have to replace those.. More ice time fees to try the effects... Something like this can turn into a very expensive hobby for someone like myself.... Especially if I add my daughters figure skates to this as well. I think it is way more economical for me to spend $6 per sharp and continue on with the hollow I use. But this just me, anything new, I jump with both feet into it and have no filter.  So with all rinks I go to, doing the sharpening for $8 to $9 and 2 hockey stores that do it for $6 and doing an exceptional job at that, I was able to stay away from getting my own sharpenign rig... even though the thought have crossed my mind more than once.. a lot more than once actually....

     

    Now, my estimations of the wheel life is complete bogus shot in the dark and I might be ways off from the reality. Whomever had this for long enough to get new wheels, please comment on that.  I (and probably many others) would like to know how many passes this wheel can do on a skate and what kind of skate is it. Not complete sharpenings, but passes if possible.  Thanks,

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    Hi,

     

    I am looking to get Graf G3035, but my local stores Monkey Sports and Hockey Giant do not have my 10d size. HockeyMonkey.com got that, so I am thinking.

     

    My experience with Graf fit is pretty sarisfactory. Hill, width, toebox are pretty perfect. My main concern however is the instep deepth. This is where I see some variations between the models. 

     

    Anone can compare Graf G3035 instep deepth to Nexus or JetSpeed... I am looking for something in between, closer to Nexus (JetSpeed is unacceptable). If i am looking for something like that, am I in the right ballpark with G3035, or am I way off? 

     

    Thanks

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