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CCM Blade change or mismarked stick?

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Alright guys, long story short is that I've been using a CCM 145/Recchi curve for years and years. For the first time is several years, instead of composite, I wanted to play around with wood/fibre and I bought a VFW for $30 bucks online.

I loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-but, the curve was ever so slighty deeper, and the face was a snoodge more open. Had I not been using CCM/Recchi curves for years, and known that they've all been identical, I would simply think this was simply different tolerances in manufacturing, but that's not it. Probably close to 20 blades, composites or wood sticks over the years have had an identical curve. This is different. Super close, very similar in description, but still different. DOH, and wouldn't ya know I love it! If ANY LHS still sold wood, I'd simply buy in person, but this is online and you know how that is.

Could this stick be mismarked? Sure anything is possible, but it doesn't sound likely. I dunno, from pics, it looks like the "thornton" curve is almost identical, but just more extreme.

I'll probably call the place tomorrow and see what they have to say, but I was curious what any of you have run across with regards to consistency of the blades on your sticks. :)

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OK, this is interesting. Good for me I suppose, but still a little questionable. I found and old wood stick from back in the day, and it's actually a "Thornton" curve. Of course, it matches pretty darn close to this new wood VFW with the supposed Recchi curve.

Frustrated, I check GreatSkate's online listings to see if the had the wood stick available in the thornton, which of course they don't. BUT, the typical Recchi curve is NOW listed as a 3/4" curve, as opposed to all the composites, which list as what it always been, a 1/2" curve.

So two different patterns with the same name, just different curves. :rolleyes:

I oughta slap someone. :blink:

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I don't think it's unusual to see some discrepency from one blade to the next. I have three different P88 Bauer blades and they all differ slightly. Hell I held one of them up against a RBK 4K with a Modano blade and it was a dead on match. :blink:

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Woodblades are never exact. Wood works due different temperatures, so some blades do have a different touch than another one with the same label.

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I had been using CCM V4.0 blades for outdoor in the Ovechkin curve. Ordered 3 or 4 at a time, several times, always the same exact curve. The last time I ordered, I received blades that were similar to the old ones, but not the same - they looked like the Lemieux curve, but were stamped Ovechkin. This batch was all consistent with each other, just not with the ones I had always gotten before. <_<

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Interesting.

I talked with the guy at GreatSkate today, and he confirmed that the VFW "glassfibre" sticks were all the same, however, they were a little different than the composites. They were ALL marked Recchi. He was NOT sure why the composites were listed as Recchi 1/2" curve, but the wood was Recchi 3/4" curve.

Bottom line, I know what to order to get what I want. That's really all that matters.

Still not sure why though, and it seems a little questionable. Isn't the whole point consistancy??? ;)

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