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Junior 1-3. Standard 4-6 Large 7-10 fly-x and Fly-ti steel are still advertised as 10ft stock profile on the Bauer website.

Yes they have 3 sizes for the Polaris. It’s the spacing of the 4 radii that is different. Junior has those 4 section smaller and closer together. Large has 4 sections that are longer and further apart to place the radii in the correct locations. It’s good design. prosharp matched the overall rocker, Which destroys a small blade. Example a 3XS is a 4-5-7-10. So smaller blades got tighter radii. That is so bad…. As far as acceleration goes, they are similar. But I tell people if they want improved acceleration, hit the gym. 😂

Polaris is better than the Quad 0 on a 272 blade for sure. The Quad 0 cuts off too much of the toe.

I went right back to my 981 Quad hybrid. Faster, more agile and more balance with the glide surface under the Center of the blade. I also cut an Ellipse II for my 272 blades with 40mm back of cl. That moves the flattest ppont on the ellipse profile roughly in the same area as the Polaris. It skates smoother than the Polaris for sure. But still not a super fast profile.

I do. I stock Bladetech steel in Black DLC, Mirror polished, and Gold for the powerfly holder. It’s great steel. Sharpens really well. The steel has a High chromium content so it never rusts even if you put your skates away wet. (Great for kids)

Find a pitch that he likes and try and stick with it. P1-4 is where I usually like setting my pitch for different people. P5 is getting pretty extreme in my opinion. Any change in Pitch will take a bit to get acclimated. The change from P5 to P0 will be very different / strange for the skater the first couple times out. Keep in mind if you’re going from a pitch of P5 to a pitch of P0, you’re taking off almost 1mm of steel at the heal, So you’re not going to get many sharpenings out of your blades. You should get at least 50-100 sharpenings out of a set of blades.

First off, I like the Gold profile a lot. You can get it with any pitch you want. A -P2 -P3 or -P4 pitch is not normal though. And I don’t think anyone would recommend that. It probably got changed by bad Sharpening over time. A Good manual sharpener will look at your blade and notice that right away. He probably had almost 0.5- 1mm more steel height at the toe depending on the length of the blade. So good call getting it fixed to a +P2. That’s not that extreme. Go with it, and he’ll adapt quickly.

You can duplicate it. Sure, But you won’t know what the profile is. So in a few months or a year of sharpening, that profile will be lost and you won’t know what to profile to next year.

CompetitiveEdgeHockey.ca exclusive profile to them. Nothing to do with Prosharp. DM me for more info

Coordinate Measurement Machine. no hockey store of pro shop will have one. It’s an engineering tool for part verification/validation. Also used to reverse engineer. I happen to have one that I use for the profile design and development.

Different…. The Quad 0.5 has 4 zones. The competitive edge 0.5/1 profile in the picture above is continuously variable (infantile number of radii). Like an elipse, but I can tell you the radio at specific points along the profile. MUCH better.

I’ve put blades on my CMM (coordinate measurement machine) and it will give me points and radii to reverse engineer and find out what profile is on there.

I just profiled a set of blades with a 8-10.5-14.5-12.5 Polaris Profile for myself to try. You can feel the transition between the 10.5 and 14.5 zone

When you put your blades into the jig on a Skatescribe machine, the vision system measures, draws, and shows a line trace of the profile for each blade on a computer screen. You can see how much steel will be removed and in what areas when it is getting profiled/sharpened.

You are absolutely right. So you were at the phats show in AZ…. I did all the surface finish analysis that Skatescribe presented. So ya, skatescribe’s Tormach cnc could do any profile. Just need to run a CAM software and send it a custom G-code. No big deal. I do custom profiles that way on a Mazak CNC. But I also use my Blackstone at my shop with tracer bars. Easier to train people on that than training a CNC programmer. Now, The Skatescribes software is stellar! (I’m sure you know). I’m an engineer as well so I appreciate your knowledge. Anyone on your side of the continent reading this should head you way for perfect skates. and ya, design they added a keyence sensor to detect the bottom of the steel and measure the angle. The first prototype had one too, but was a different sensor 😉 And correct you can’t patent a quad or elipse, OMNI. It’s like a coffee mug. Maybe a two handle coffee mug. But You can’t patent a three handle mud, or quad mug. Or infinite number of handles on a mug (elipse or OMNI). Anyways, it’s public knowledge now so not patentable anymore.