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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.

My 190s are from the same relase as the mx3s. From working in a shop for the last few years and seeing tons of skates come and go I don’t see a huge drop off in durability from the years to be honest. I will say I mostly see $200 price point skates to top of the line and the biggest issue I see is tendon guards ripped/ hanging on by a thread and that’s because people are lazy when taking their skates off. Admittedly the only pair of true skates I have ever seen in person were the pure hockey display model so I can’t comment on how well they hold up over time. I will say with Bauer and ccm the durability seems fine. None of them exploded from a blocked shot. FWIW where I live there are about 7 rinks all within an hour drive, 2 NCAA teams, 4 ACHA teams, a couple AAA teams as well as strong youth hockey programs and probably 4+ different adult leagues so I get a pretty good sample of skates id say.

I've been in my Supreme 190's for 3+ years now and all I have had to do was replace a few eyelets. I have taken shots off the foot and well it sucked and I felt it, but it didn't keep me off the ice nor did my skates fall apart. I am on the ice 2-4 times a week and play in pretty high level around here.

@Sniper9 I agree that the True scan seems odd. I have seen videos of people getting scanned. However, I don't think 3D scans are 100% foolproof. I have done the Bauer scan and it told me I should be in 8.5 which is half a size too long. I know JR said when he was testing the machine if you stood straight up and down it usually added a half size. You even with not being 100% happy with your skates you would still go back? Why? I agree within the next few years as technology increases I think the scans will get better. @Nicholas G I have seen the 'demo' pair or whatever you want to call it at the local Pure I will admit they are tanks so I can see that being a benefit. I do disagree though I have been in the same pair of Supreme 190s (MX3 season) for the last 3 years. Up until this year, I was playing in the highest level of men's league in my area and I am a former ACHA player. I am not going to say I am some sort of an elite skater or anything like that, but I think I skate pretty well. I usually play 2-4 times a week and my 190s are still in great condition. Maybe I am not as hard on my skates as others but as far as I am concerned the durability of my Bauers have met my expectations and I would say I should get at least another 3 years out of them. Also as @Leif stated are you sure Bauer and CCM are picking as last off the shelf because they are both claiming to making the skates off of a 3D print out of your foot. I heard it was True that was picking a last that was closest to peoples scans. I know True has more than 3 last maybe they have 1,000 I don't know so I am not saying they are closing their eyes and just hoping for the best but it is still not built off of a 3D print out of your foot. I know part of the issue with my original question is VH/True skates used to be the easiest way to get customs before the 3D scanning came into play. With Bauer and CCM you needed to find a shop with a fitter that you trusted and to be honest I don't even know how the process went. Bauer and CCM have only been building custom skates off of a 3D scan at retail for a few months so its tough to gauge them this early on all I know is what my friend has said about his custom CCMs. I mean this thread alone has 160+ pages so there is a lot of dialogue about these skates so there is just a ton of info. Anyone else on why they decided True over Bauer or CCM?

Just out of curiosity (I am not trying to start a war) why are people still choosing to go with True over CCM and Bauer? Is True's custom process/ scanning that much different than the other two? I have a friend who had the option to go with custom True or CCM this was right before Bauer announced their custom program and he went with CCM because of all of the quality control issues with True and he is extremely happy with his CCMs. FWIW my friend went through roughly 4 pairs of retail skates in a year nothing quite fit him perfectly he was constantly tinkering with foot booties and different things to improve the fit of his skates so it wasn't someone going with custom skates just for the hell of it he had fit issues.

I did find this video where they are giving a 13ft radius on a pair of skates. Mind you I know nothing about profiling so I am not sure if this is profiling the whole set of steel, but I wonder if this is what the shop is getting.

You’re breaking my heart @JR Boucicaut thanks for the info. I will probably still give it a shot and if I don’t like it get my steel re-profiled to something different.

Bumping an old thread for information. Rumor has it my LHS is getting one of these machines soon. If I am reading the thread correctly it looks like it moves the balance point of your blade forward if you want that and puts a flat spot on your blade. What it doesn't look like the machine is able to do is put a normal 9ft radius on a skate. What @jimmy seemed to point out to me is if the profile on the skate is off to start with (ie. suppose to be a 10ft, but one blade is a 9.75 and the other is 10.25) this profiler won't be able to match them up for a 25-40 and each blade will still be off? TLDR: Can the CAG profiler put a 9ft radius on a skate? If the radius on both skates are off to start with can the CAG profiler match them up and make them the same?

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I work at a University and I am their "Mac guy". We just support our computers like an enterprise. As far as corporate junk we obviously don't have any of that. I like to just put the bare bones stuff on my images. No need to over load it with crap. If someone needs some additional they let me know. Thank god I don't support phones. Only computers some people have phones the school gave them that I help them out with, but they are just basic iPhones we don't have any profiles or security limitations we push to them. One of the benefits of working for a school and not a corporate environment. With all that said if anyone has suggestions for a Mac netboot server I am all ears. I am trying to stay away for Lunix.

As an IT professional and an Apple fan boy Apple is making it harder and harder to support their computers in an enterprise environment. As of Spring of 2018 Apple will be removing some of the features I use in their Server App. This is very frustrating.

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I totally agree. Apple made a huge improvement with the 4th gen apple tv. Like I stated earlier i use my dads cable login for most of the stuff (HGTV is one of them the wife and I are pretty sad fixer upper is going away). I also use my brothers netflix account. It's not that the wife and I can't afford the $10 a month it's more why should we if someone is offering it to us for free. Realistically the only thing I pay for besides the internet is NHL. We have prime and our tv supports prime but i'm waiting for the prime app. We don't have much interest in hulu. If everything went away I would just subscribe to sling. Its cheaper than a cable plan anyway.

As a former Apple employee, I can tell you about 85% of the people on the floor don't know anything. Yes Apple TV does have the TV app and it will remember shows you watch on primetime and Netflix etc and pull them up. I was like you where I would pop on the guide check what was on and scroll until I found something. Once I cut the cord I had to find a different way of doing this. Now, for the most part, I know when I come home from work what is going to be on each app at that time. On the weekends is usually when I am searching for something. As of late though I have been working on my house so no time to watch tv on the weekends. Its an adjustment for sure, but it's nice not having that $200 a month bill. I would try looking into SlingTV its almost like baby steps into cutting the cord. We were going to do that until we realized I could just use my dad's login for everything. I also like the options of getting the East and West time zones on the different apps.

I think as more and more people are cutting the cord the price of internet services will go up since the cable companies need to get theirs, and people need internet in this day. One thing I would like to see is something similar to sling tv except I get to choose which channels I want. I can see it being a flat fee of say $20 a month for 5 networks add an extra few bucks for premium cable. Realistically people with cable watch the same 5-10 channels and the rest is all just there and unneeded. Or the other thing that might happen is as internet service prices go up they may include an option for logging into the network streams like they offer now. I cut the cord a few years ago, but I cheated since my Dad can't live without 1,000 channels I have a login to his Verizon FiOS account and still can watch live tv through various Apple TV apps. With that being said I could use MSG GO to watch the Islanders, Devils and Rangers. I also log into NBCSN. I still choose to pay for the NHL package for the sear convenience of having the NHL TV app on my Apple TV. Maybe if MSG GO comes out with an app for the Apple TV I won't renew my NHL package. I do like being able to watch random games though. I also agree blackouts in 2017 are dumb. I'd gladly pay an extra few dollars for the NHL package if it excluded all blackouts including things on NBCSN and NHL Network.

That's a good point. However, this sort of thing does happen on a lot of plays when the puck is loose. As I stated earlier Goalie B said he didn't have an issue with the play and no other players saw an issue with the play. People have done a lot worse than what I tried last night and haven't been scolded. Perhaps since the guy who runs it is a friend felt like he could make an example out of me and I wouldn't take it personal with him as other players might and may not return. I have been playing with them for 4 years but admittedly I may miss a skate here or there so maybe the first time something like this happened I missed it and never got the memo. Again sorry to the goalies I offended I won't let it happen again.

Funny thing is I was a lacrosse goalie for most of my life never got into hockey goalie and I have sympathy for hockey goalies. I had a protective circle around me that no one could enter. Hockey goalies have some blue paint that doesn't mean anything unless you make contact with the goalie. I still wore less padding though