Blade Tape Styles

[snickersnicker 0]

My apologies if this topic has come up many times; I did a search and didn't see anything specifically about this.

What parts (if any) of the blade do you tape? I've currently got mine starting about two centimetres from where the shaft angles and turns into the blade, and ending about a centimetre and a half to two from the tip. I'm considering retaping it, with tape from a little past the halfway point to three or four centimetres from the tip.

What do you use, and why?

[Doctor Hook 0]

I like a full heel to toe tape job. Being a defenseman, my blade gets trashed from poke checks, skate blades, and teeth (just kidding...). Plus I like a good amount of tape on puck contact for passes, shooting, etc. If I played forward, I'd probably just go with a 3/4 tape job to reduce weight, but I think durability and wear and tear first.

[jbyun04 7]

on backup sticks i usually do mid to full toe

on regulars i just do heel to toe

[cbj05 0]

I tape 5 strips/rounds on the toe of my blade, with white tape. (blade always sprayed black) I'd say that would be about 1/4 of my blade. Have always done it like that since I was a little kid.

[pisani34 10]

i like to do the whole heel to toe tape job...i don't know if my way is very good, but how do you guys tape over the toe and not get any excess? All i've been doing is taping it in full strips and then cutting the excess with scissors

[reaper07 0]

i tape only when i get a new stick/blade

the extra tape helps with cushion the blade a bit till it softens

i usually do an inch from each end though heel to toe

[hockeysc23 0]

i like to do the whole heel to toe tape job...i don't know if my way is very good, but how do you guys tape over the toe and not get any excess? All i've been doing is taping it in full strips and then cutting the excess with scissors

When I do mine I leave the part at the toe so it goes over the blade, push the excess together then take a razor and shape it to the blade, if that makes sense. If not I could get pics but basically I just use a razor to shape to the blade and it holds pretty well.

Scott

[warheart45 0]

i like to do the whole heel to toe tape job...i don't know if my way is very good, but how do you guys tape over the toe and not get any excess? All i've been doing is taping it in full strips and then cutting the excess with scissors

I do pretty much the same thing. It depends on the blade really. I have a a koho stick I use primarily for defensive purposes so I tape the blade full for durability. I have a synergy with a sakic blade that I tape the center of the blade about 1/2 the blade and I put a small tape cap on the toe. And I have a Stealth with a gaborik curve that I tape about 2 inches from the heel to the toe. It all depends what your trying to do with the blade.

[Jbone 0]

Depends what kind of curve it is. If it's like a Drury I go from heel to almost the end of the toe. If it's a straighter blade I go about 2-3 inches from the toe in.

[DANGLESHOW 0]

on my vapor xxx lite i got from middle of the blade all the way over the toe

[sn1per 0]

I usually put 2 strips of tape over to kinda help the toe from chipping and then tape from heel to toe and then wax.

[millencolin9387 0]

i tape from mid-toe on back-ups

heel-toe on game sticks

[mack 44]

I tape it the same I did in the other threads that somehow always get buried and re-emerge.

[millencolin9387 0]

y is every1 so sarcastic on this damn forum

[CThockey11 0]

I do my tape job quiet originally, haven't seen any other HS kids use it,

I start from the the back side of the heel about 1/2 from the bend of shaft-to-blade,

then I go with very large strips (width-wise) to use as least tape as possible and to save weight. then I finish about

75% up the blade, and use the top of it to tear it, ending on the top of the backhand side...

so I end up leaving about 3 or 3 1/2 in. of non taped space on the toe. I have a one90 so I end it where the back hand side decal starts near the toe.

I use only the bottom 75% because thats all you should use, it also reminds me not to use toe-drags,

like the coaches always say,

dont be fancy, just do it right!

[Jake 0]

mack is a jokemaker.

I'm rather meticulous with my tape jobs.. I start with waxing the bare blade. Then white tape from mid-to-toe, overlapping and then cutting the excess off the toe. Then I go back and do a couple of layers of black tape from where I started the white tape, towards the heel (still leave a lot of the heel untaped). I then razor blade the bottom of the tape off, then rub a puck along the front and back of the blade.. Then wax, heat gun, more wax.

[bushy 0]

on my sticks i like to tape the toe completely so theres no blade showing at tape don to halfway on the blade because i dont use the heel half of my blade

kinda like the way ovechkin's tape job B)

[Jake 0]

You don't use your heel? Heh.

[James 0]

I tape mine from about 1 1/2" to 2" away form the heel to full toe or from 1 3/4" away from heel to 1 and 1/2" away from toe.

[mack 44]

y is every1 so sarcastic on this damn forum

There was zero sarcasm in my post. I haven't changed the way I tape a blade since I was 10 and these kinds of threads routinely pop up for whatever reason. It's not like anyone's going to have some super-terrific new way of taping a blade.

[Langenbrunner15 0]

It's not like anyone's going to have some super-terrific new way of taping a blade.

It could happen.. :lol:

[Chadd 916]

My apologies if this topic has come up many times; I did a search and didn't see anything specifically about this.

What parts (if any) of the blade do you tape? I've currently got mine starting about two centimetres from where the shaft angles and turns into the blade, and ending about a centimetre and a half to two from the tip. I'm considering retaping it, with tape from a little past the halfway point to three or four centimetres from the tip.

What do you use, and why?

There are at least two topics on the first page of this search alone that you could have used.

http://www.modsquadhockey.com/forums/index...ighlite=%2Btape