ice wear and tear on composite blades

[the_joe_cat 0]

Do I look like an Easton customer service rep to you?

No problem. Since it might be hard to find a lower lie, you might consider cutting the shaft to shorten the stick. That would bring the wear closer to the center of the blade. Just cut in small increments to fine tune.

That may work, but it also may make it worse due to reaching. You should look into getting custom wood blades made with a lower lie.

[Jarick 5]

Or just bring your top arm up a bit higher. I try to keep my top arm up high so I can have more control and stickhandle better.

I use tape and a lot of wax (melted with a heat gun) on my composite blades, works great. They do get chipped from slapshots and snapshots though.

[Wolfpack_1986 154]

I'm also rusty on physics but I would think that; even then when downward pressure is applied it's not going to be a coefficient of 0, even if that force is gravity(unless we are playing in a vacuum)... And certainly not when the ice is chewed up from skating on it.

I've seen composite blades wear on the ice, once the finish is gone the wear on the actual composite is noticeable.

P.S. Maybe it's because I'm tired... maybe it's because I'm on pain killers but I don't see how this:

[snip]

...has anything to do with wear on a composite hockey blade.

nothing has a coeffecient of friction of zero. nothing. some are really low, like teflon, but it's still there. Gravity is always there, a vacuum has nothing to do with that. Coefficients of friction dont change due to applied force (unless you're modfying the molecular structure). The Friction force, however, is the coefficient of friction multiplied by the normal force (downward pressure). that will change... coefficient, not so much.

and what he posted has absolutely nothing to do with it, so dont worry.

[Jordan 13]

If carbon fibre was frictionless on ice, that would mean that carbon fibre stick would slide on the ice and never stop, nor slow down until it hit the boards. It would do that with the lightest directional tap of your baby finger tip...and we all know that is simply not the case.

If you want to wax philosophic about physics, you would be speaking of Newton's first law of motion:

Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.

[cause4alarm 7]

You need a lower lie.

Maybe not necessarily. If the wearing at the heel isn't that severe, it might not be indicative of a need for a lower lie. If you skate around a lot with only one hand on your stick, your heel is probably going to wear faster than the toe, even though you may have a perfect lie and stick length when you're shooting, stickhandling or skating with both hands on the stick.

In other words, when you skate with one hand on the stick, your top hand usually drops lower and the angle your stick now makes relative to the ice will put more weight and ice contact at the heel of the blade.

So don't go buying custom lies just yet.

[daniel91 0]

wow there buddy... tape it as much as you want or maybe you have a crappy blade from wal-mart. get a good one already.