Kgbeast

The hockey blades are between 0.11 and 0.125, with goalie blades are between 0.13 and 0.16. The difference are across the brands as well as within brand sometimes (like youth vs senior, or low end vs high end)

Is it possible that you just loose your edge? Both BFD and FBV create a pretty skinny edge that can roll-over of split-off. I would think that the quality of the steel, hardness of the ice, and weight of the player can result in ROH being a better option. Although if you flop with 9/16 ROH, you'll do the same with 1/2"... perhaps when you hone the sides, you also take the edge off a little. Who knows, there could be more than just ring problem.

Yep, they supposed to resume their distribution in USA and Canada next week... unless they have changed their mind. Either way, it will be news. In the mean time HockeyMonkey basically giving their remaining skates away.

3d "scanning" is going to be more available pretty soon. There are many systems already that use projection of geometrical shapes (lines and circles mostly) and taking a digital photo of that. I have played with HP Sprout with the 3d scanning option and I was pretty impressed. It is not there yet for a pocket device, but I won't be shocked to see next generation of phones capable of 3d modeling based on the same principle. It might bypass the retail and go straight to the end user.

They actually increasing the runners not the holders. The effect is the same as increasing the holder, your skates will be able to lean more during maneuvering before bottoming out. Of course, practicality of it, is debatable...

I think Bloomberg report is correct, but lets call "agree to disagree" on this so we can move on. Thanks.

... what you saying is based upon a quick glance at one of the documents available in public record. If you look again, you will see that the largest creditor, secured creditor, and the party that initiated the suit, is Bank of Montreal. Also if you look at court service list, you will immediately see that Graf Canada LTD is a subsidiary of Graf Skates AG. I am also not sure why it is so upsetting to you that Graf Canada was a subsidiary. The still were independently operated and in every respect, were a company with their own vision and potential. Graf Canada was instrumental in design of MCI line, they also came up with and began to market their own line - PeakSpeed.

http://www.bloomberg.com/Research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=1680286 ... As for the second part of your comment, email is from Graf AG and the guy says "we...", but then again he would have said that if Graf Canada was their subsidiary.

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.

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.

one more copy/paste from another email from Charles Graf ...not for the Seven-XX holders.

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...

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.

Here is a copy/paste from an email from Graf this morning

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,

Thanks, how the G3035 and 535S boot stiffness wise. I was searching on line and I found a couple of mentions of 535S where one said the boot is soft and another said the boot was too stiff. I did hold 3035 in my hands and know what stiffness that is, if you held both, what do you think about the stiffness? Thanks,

... or Graf G535?

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