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He was on a 92/75 FBV. It’s a year later now and he skates on the 981/Quad Hybrid (CompetitiveEdgeHockey.ca) and a 98/50 FBV. His edge work is top notch so he can skate on a /50cut now. So fast.

My boy also loved the Proto. Came from an FT6 pro. Snapped a blade after 2 weeks. Got 2 more. We’ll see how long they last. I shot it as well and prefer the release compared to the low kick hyperlite I’ve been using. I play in a no clapper over 40 league now so my sticks last forever. I might just get a proto for myself.

I can do that! I draw custom profiles in CAD all the time and cut them for certain players/Teams.

Both my kids were on Quads prior to going to the 981/Quad Hybrid. Never looked back. I skate on this profile myself now for beer league 🙂. We did a blind test with 5 other boys on his AAA team, and 3 tier 1 girls. All 8 kids preferred the 981/Quad Hybrid over the Quad which they were on previously and moved to that profile. The speed is noticeable, but they still have all the agility of the Quad. Some did mail in profiling, others just bought new blades from CompetitiveEdgeHockey.ca It’s a great profile!

That’s strange because the overall rocker on the power cut is less than the Quad 1. The Quad 1 has about 0.030” (0.75mm) more rocker. It’s a rounder profile. You might have felt the rounder heal of the powercut which is 12’, vs 15’ on the Quad 1.

The ME 981/Quad hybrid profile is only available through CompetitiveEdgeHockey.ca at the moment. It will become available through Blackstone once their new profiler launches. It was just displayed at the equipment, managers conference in Arizona a few months ago. The profiler measures the blades current pitch by angle and you can adjust from there. So nice!

Skatescribe does pitch by angle. Prosharp moves the cl back 15mm 17mm 20mm whatever you want in order for the profile to take more steel off the toe and pitch it forward. I prefer Skatescribe’s method much better. That is a true angle 0 deg, 0.1deg, 0.2 deg… I skate with an 0.4deg pitch. That’s about 0.035” less steel on the toe vs the heal on a 272 blade. I can switch profiles and if I keep that same 0.4deg pitch I always feel balanced.

Skatescribe does pitch by angle. Prosharp moves the cl back 15mm 17mm 20mm whatever you want in order for the profile to take more steel off the toe and pitch it forward. I prefer Skatescribe’s method much better. That is a true angle 0 deg, 0.1deg, 0.2 deg… I skate with an 0.4deg pitch. That’s about 0.035” less steel on the toe vs the heal on a 272 blade. I can switch profiles and if I keep that same 0.4deg pitch I always feel balanced.

You can pitch it to whatever you want. Just an angular change.

The Skatescribe Gold Profile is really nice fast and Agile Profile. Probably my favourite from them. (12’ heal, 14’ Center, 8.65’ toe.) My boy tried it out of curiosity and he liked it a lot, but went back to his previous profile which was a ME Quad/981 hybrid. Other boys on his team also tried it and liked it.

I totally hear you and agree with that. I will say that every single player that I do skates for, from 9 year old’s up to Juniors and old Pro’s instantly say the manual job (with perfect even edges) are the best skates they have ever had. I also hone with ceramic stones, 400, 800, 3000. I have experience sharpening knives and chisels… so that will get you to that level of detail when doing skates 😉. Anyone looking for insane sharpening lessons, watch Rob Cosman sharpening videos on YouTube.

Ok great, an engineer in product development… That’s me as well. Let me explain and it will all make sense. When you look at the images on CompetitiveEdgeHockey.ca you can clearly see the edge from the sparks machine is not “sharp”, it’s rolled over. That is from the aggressive diamond wheel they use. That’s how the get the speed out of that machine… The yellow grinding wheel on the Blackstone (or blademaster) has the least amount of heat generation, and combined with fine shine lubricant heat is at a minimum allowing that keen edge. (In the tool and Mold industry when you finish steel, heat must be kept under control). So what is the effect…. for the same hollow, the Blackstone sharpening will “feel” sharper. This has been verified by hundreds of people I do skates for. What does that mean… you can go with a shallower hollow on a Blackstone sharpening to get the same bite on the ice, except it will be much faster! Anything can feel sharp, but can it feel sharp, and fast, and smooth. That’s the advantage you get with a perfectly keen edge. That applies to a Skatescribe sharpening, or Blackstone or Blademaster, or Wissota sharpening. Hope that makes sense.

Exactly! Their Instagram posts have that data and they have perfect edge’s! To think this Sparx job is an A- is not correct. It’s more like a D- let me find it and post that here for people to look at.

Ya I read that… II think the point is how good of an edge can you get in a Blackstone. You can’t use fine shine on a sparks… Blackstone you can. So ya, totally valid comparison.

Anyone see this yet… https://www.competitiveedgehockey.ca/blank-page sparks sharpening vs Blackstone. Super zoomed in! Real Data, not subjective feelings. This is good stuff.