Dotes

Well, the first thing would be to have your LHS take the blade holders off cause you can get dye on the skate too easily...or try masking the skate. Use Rit black dye found at grocery stores and drug stores and add boiling water to it and thats basically it. If i did it again it would be blacker each time.

I dyed the holders cause I was bored... getting new skates in a month. I'm thinking the Easton S15 or the Vapor 40, but I'll have to ask the LHS owner if they're too stiff for me.

I have a pair of Easton S3 in size 12 that I am thinking about converting next month when I can get one of the new 2008 model skates. I'm in an adult ice league that plays in the Spring so I don't want to be without skates for a month or so. I have a couple of decisions to make... the first one is either the Tuuk Rocker or the Sprungs chassis. People seem to be swearing by the Sprungs here, but my LHS owner hasn't heard of them and is pushing the rocker... he's going to get back to me after he talks to his supplier or whoever about them (the sprungs). Any input? And the second decision is the model of new skate that I should get. I was interested in the new One95 and the One75. One LHS guy (different store) was telling me the One95 wouldn't fit my E wide foot and I should get the One75 that would fit a wider foot. Then also told me that the Eastons are falling apart and so are the blade holders on the One90.