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Try lacing from the outside in. Instead of inside out. Here is a video showing it. I had lace bite in my older skates so I started doing this. I only do this starting 4 eyelets down from the top though so lace inside out till pretty much the curve of the boot then I go outside in.

My favorite player as a kid didn't tape the toe of his stick so naturally I didn't tape mine. Every time I tried taping the toe I feel like I don't shoot as well. It's probably purely a mental thing but whatever if it ain't broke don't fix it.

There is a difference between "showing more wear" and breaking down prematurely. A friend of mine did a pair of full custom CCM Jetspeed FT1s right when CCM announced they were doing custom skates. I sharpen his skates for him and while yes they do mark up easily they are far from prematurely breaking down. They are still as solid as the day he got them. He skates about 3 times a week.

We have an area skating coach who swears by putting his students on 3/8ths to teach proper edge work. I get it for the real little kids since they aren't heavy enough to get the bite they need out of a shallower hollow. Where I have the problem is when his high school aged students ask for it I can only think of how much speed they are loosing by digging too much into the ice. Our shops "standard" is 5/8ths. We give that to people when we ask them how they want their skates done and they respond "I don't know? The regular?" I typically try to educate them even if they aren't listening. Tell them I am giving them 5/8ths and if they want it sharper next time come in and ask for 1/2. We have the ability to do 9/16 but I prefer to give them the option to experiment.

I agree with @psulion22 I work part-time in a shop and sharpen my own skates we use the spinner system to dress the wheel. I have been skating at 5/8ths for probably about 10 years. A friend of mine has a sparx and I was curious so I had him cut my skates at 5/8ths. I was there when he did it we did 8 passes on each skate. When I tried them out they didn't feel like they had the same bite as when I do them on the blademaster. The best way to describe what I felt was a 5/8th sharpening that had been skated on once or twice. For me when I no longer have access to a sharpener i'll probably buy the blackstone portable machine. This was mainly a test to see if I would buy a sparx over the blackstone.

Yes, I agree this video is somewhat informative but also has terrible misinformation. You should stay within the retail line that best fits your foot shape. Just because it's a fully custom skate does not mean you can choose any skate in the CCM line like the video suggest.

Interesting talk with the man behind the custom pro CCM gear

They are on the CCM website I'm willing to be they are also in the CCM Catalog too which means any shop with a CCM account should be able to order them.

sideline is referring to the website www.sidelineswap.com it's similar to eBay but its mostly for sports equipment.

Thanks, @JR Boucicaut as it turns out it's not my shop and I don't make the decisions so I just get to work with what I have. Thanks for the suggestions though.

Question about setting up new steel on the CAG. Do I cross grind then put the steel in the CAG and set my desired profile then finish it on the blademaster or do I cross grind put an edge on it put it in the CAG and then finish it on the blademaster. The latter of the two seems a bit redundant. I just want to make sure I am doing it right.

If your LS2 holders are in good shape keep the holders and just get new steel. Have the LHS check and make sure the holders are just aligned properly.

They are making 3D printouts of each foot and building the skate around those.

Good call on the trigger taper lol

https://www.instagram.com/p/BrQR8d2hzci/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link ASU's gold jetspeed sticks and new jerseys

@smu I think you were trying to quote @CigarScott

The silicone sleeve doesn't bother me except when it gets messed up when I am putting my socks on sometimes. It would be great to not have to use it though. Maybe I will try the washcloth method with the sleeves on my pond hockey skates and see if its worth it with my other ones.

@CigarScott have you tried re-baking with those silicone sleeves? I recently within the last year have developed the same issue with my skates (Supreme 190). I thought about trying to bake the skates while wearing them just haven't yet. I will say that one day I lost the one sleeve and I had to skate without it and the issue seemed to be okay on my left foot where I have been wearing the sleeve for a year. It's possible that area of the skate stretched out by wearing the sleeve for a year again I haven't tried not wearing the sleeve again maybe one skate this week.

My thing is though in your expert opinion which I value you certainly have the credentials to back it up (close to 1,000 fittings for True) if the shop is not communicating the information to True correctly. Why isn't True reaching out to the shop and saying "hey guys we certainly have an issue here. What is wrong with the skates what needs to be done to make the customer happy?" Maybe the shop doesn't know the proper way to communicate the issues. This could be the first time its ever happen. Again we don't have all of the info about the shop and how many pairs of True skates they have sent out. This could be the first pair. I know from asking the manager at the local Pure hockey they have only done 2 pairs so they don't have the same experience as you do with True. This could be a learning experience for the shop. I look at it like this. Let's say this is the first pair of True skates this shop has ever put out. They have never put out any other custom options, but they have the resources for CCM and Bauer to do custom skates. They are having such a tough time getting this pair of skates right that another person walks in off the street and wants customs as a shop I'd be pushing the other two because I had such an issue with True the first time. True could lose customers from this shop over this. Regardless of who has the better skate and the best process. Again will the sales of one shop really effect True. Doubtful, but something to think about from a customer service standpoint.

I'm not going to get into a keyboard war with you but at this point, it's on True. After @smu got his first pair of skates back and they were horribly wrong he was rescanned and the shop added notes to the second scan about what was wrong with his skates. Yet the skates came back stuffed in the toe cap and the sides squished in to make them narrower. True seemed to completely ignore the notes that were put in. The skates were sent back they made a new pair still not the right size still disregarding any notes put in by the shop after the second scan. It's great that your shop has had such great success with True customs. I know people who have had great success with CCM and Bauer customs. No one in my area skates on Trues. The only experience I have with them is this thread plus seeing the display model at Pure hockey. If there is a disconnect between a 3D scan of a customers foot and the shop and the company the company needs to stand behind their product and make it right.

I don't get how you guys are putting this entirely on the shop? If he has now had 2 pairs of skates made for him that are wrong why is someone from True not contacting the shop to try and get to the bottom of this? To me, there is clearly something different between the scan and the player's foot. I'm not saying True is closing their eyes and making the skates, but if they are having this much of an issue with this particular skate there is an issue. Makes me wonder how many pairs of True skates this shop has put out that were wrong and the other skaters thought they fit fine or good enough. It's great that your shops have had almost zero returns of skates, but something is going on at this shop that True should try and resolve. If I was @smu i'd move on from True now with Bauer and CCM offering customs based off of 3D scans. The shop should just allow him to put the money he has invested in these skate to something else. Like @Vet88 said if this was a retail skate that a shop just said here this is the closest we have it will work that's on the shop.

@JR Boucicaut and the MSH Pro Shop

@smu not to beat a dead horse, but I am with you. Holder issue aside you got scanned and you got a skate that was completely wrong... okay that happens sometimes. You and your shop think re-scanning/ sending pictures and notes back saying everything that is wrong with the first pair is a good idea. I agree maybe the first scan was in fact messed up. This is on True to compare the two scans, notes and pictures and say something isn't adding up here. Maybe the experience True fitters on the board are correct and the scanner isn't calibrated properly then they could have contacted the LHS and let them know that something is way off with these scans and they could have troubleshot with the LHS to ensure you got scanned correctly. You might have had to come in for a third scan, but that's better than a third pair of skates. There just seems to be a disconnect from a customer service standpoint. I used to work in computer repairs and if we got a repeat customer with a repeat issue that wasn't solved the first time around we would usually have one of our more experienced people check out their computer the second time because we really wanted to nail the issue and not have them come back a third time.

I am looking for suggestions on which CAG One profile to try out? Now that the shop has got it up and running I would like to test them out. I was thinking of starting out with their recommended one of either 25-40 or 30-40 for a size 8 blade. I did see Crosby is using their 30-60 on 280 holders so obviously, you don't have to follow what their chart says. Anyone have experience and can recommend a profile for a 272 blade?

Well we will agree to disagree I guess. Like I said I’ve been in my skates for 3 years and can’t say they have durability issues. Aside from normal wear and tear over 3 years my skates have held up great.