gutta26

Hi, I’ve been searching for info regarding this topic but haven’t found anything yet. If there’s already an existing thread, feel free to direct me to that! I’ve recently gained access to a ProSharp AS 2001 AllPro and have been been teaching myself to profile on it. It’s the older one with the lever clamp that isn’t self-centering so I can’t use the twin blade holder to profile two runners at once and therefore have to do each one individually. After the first runner is done I put in the second one clamped at the same spot and move the sled over to the grinding wheel but the roller no longer stops spinning at the designated mark on the template. I’m assuming this is because some material has been lost from the grinding wheel so I readjust and make that the roller stop spinning at the mark again. However, when the second runner is finished I compare the two runners and the profiles start and stop at different points. I’ve done this several times but no matter how accurate I try to be with the roller and mark on the template (using several minutes with sled speed completely slowed down) the starting/stopping points of the profiles on the two runners are always off by around 2-4mm. I also tried not adjusting the roller for the second runner on and old set of steel but they ended up being even more off. Is this normal or is there something I’m missing here? I’m assuming the different radiuses will still be at the same points since each runner was clamped at the exact same spot, but I ended up with slightly different heights/amounts of steel at the toe and heel. Does this not matter so much once I blend the toe since not much steel is taken from the heel? I’ve attempted to re-profile runners where the starting/stopping points don’t match with a different profile as well and made sure to account for the pitch adjustments when clamping. It seems like with the re-profile that significantly different amounts of steel are being taken away at different points. The back half of the runners line up, but there’s about a millimeter of height difference moving towards the front and one seems flat in the toe area while the other is more rounded. It’s highly possible that this is pure user error but I can’t for the life of me figure out what I’m doing wrong. PS - I don’t work at a shop or anything and I’ve been doing this on my own steel so I haven’t been messing up a customer’s/anyone else’s runners.

I’ve been in pro stock Supreme 2S Pro’s for a while now which are quite stiff (getting broken down now though) and tried to switch to retail Ultrasonics a couple years ago but found them to be too soft. Do you think the stiffness of the Hzrdus would be comparable to my 2S Pro’s and the Catalyst the retail Ultrasonics? I live in Norway and there’s only one LHS I can go to and all they had in stock was the Hzrdus 9X. They felt closest to the stiffness I’m looking for, but it’s hard to tell without baking them. Also, does anyone know if the Catalyst or Hzrdus skates have the foam piece in the toe cap that can be pulled out that some True skates have had? I’m usually between two sizes but was only able to try on the smaller size and my toes were very hard up against the front in the Hzrdus. If baking doesn’t give me enough room I’m wondering if I could pull out that piece to get a bit of extra space.

Hey everyone, first time posting here so I hope I’m doing this correctly. I play for a low-level pro (if you can even call it that) team in Norway. I’ve been teaching myself to use the team’s CAG One Speed One sharpener because our EQM is new to sharpening and we’ve had some issues with sharpening quality so I feel more comfortable learning to do it myself. I recently acquired a set of XC Blade runners which have different widths at the toe, center, and heel. The stone can only be dressed with the single-point diamond and the instruction manual says to measure and set the blade width before dressing. However, I’m not sure what width to set it at with the XC Blades. Should I set it at the width in the center of the blade which is the narrowest? Or the width of the heel which is the widest? Will setting the width incorrectly while dressing the stone have that much impact on the sharpening? The XC Blade website says they can be sharpened just like any other set of runners and they have an instructional video with a Pro Sharp machine, but nothing related to what I’m trying to figure out about the width setting on the CAG One. Also, the single-point diamond on the machine has been worn flat and looks like it’s down to the metal. I’m assuming it needs to be changed and our EQM just doesn’t know this? thanks in advance!