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Aluminum Pic 1

Aluminum Pic 2

Before Electrical Tape

Almost Done

Finished

I've been working on this for almost a month now at school and I'm almost done. I had a broken xxx-lite which is a true one peice stick so I couldn't salvage a removable blade. Instead I thought of stick fix or SRS but I remember my doing doing this to a shaft a few years ago.

Instead of compostie I used aluminum that I cut out from a big solid block of it and then grinded/sanded/filed down to the proper dimensions or as close as I could come with the tools available. When it got down to the approximate size it felt very heavy so I drilled in as many holes as I could to reduce the weight. No idea on howmuch it weighs but I'd say maybe 2 times as heavy as a composite blade or close to a wood blade.

The size that went into the blade was a little small so before I put it in i covered the undersized edges with electrical tape. It was a very tight fit and took a pit of pounding to get it all the way in. Now all thats left is working the hosel down to the perfect dimensions.

At the bottom of the blade there was a small thicker plastic container filled with thinner plastic inside, I guess it's used at the begging of the maunfacturing of the shaft. Also the blade is about an inch long but I've got another I'm working on that's about an inch smaller.

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What broke on your stick? Pretty fun working with metal and all, but I don't see the point of crapping on the balance of the stick and probably the flex of the taper by popping a nugget of aluminum in the tapered region.

There is a company that will do this for you for what, $40?

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My next project is to make a batch of custom blades in my woodworking class; pro stock kovalchuk curve.

I thought about stick fix for 40$, if I can find one, and I might do it on my other broken one. the original sticks, both of them, broke in the lower shaft area. one blocked a slap shot and cracked: first time using it. the other got stuck between a player and the boards during a hit.

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Creative idea/concept, but it honestly seems like a lot of effort for what you'll get out of it. Keep it up and let us know how it works out.

You know wood blades cost about $20 right?

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Interesting. Something like that might help out the real tall guys too. You could take a shaft, add the aluminum piece and glue an extra length of shaft to it. You could feasibly add 12+ inches to a stick. Balance could be an issue.

If you had used an aluminum tube, you might not have such an issue with weight.

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It was neat project. This is a fun part of hockey; messing with equipment to see what we can do with what we have to work with. It may not be balanced, but hell, this is how SRS got started. Someone had an idea about how to fix a broken stick. Only difference is they were able to use a carbon tube instead of aluminum so the balance is better.

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OK, it took me a while but I finally figured out that you made a "tenon"

that is a "...a projecting member in a piece of wood or other material for insertion into a mortise to make a joint..."

I guess because you did not show a picture of the original blade with the hollow "hosel" I did not understand at first...

Like other posters I would like to hear of your results from the first few slapshots - because I too have one of thoes "hollow" blades at home that is fully intact, and was wondering what to do with it....

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Great Idea!!

But wouldn't it destroy balance?

Try how well it works; I actually wanna know more about this. ;)

yeah i'm expecting it to be extremely blade heavy, i'll be testing it out over the weekend but i'm thining this might just be a stickhandling stick. I'll take it to school today and get it wieghed, im thinking some where in the high 200 grams range.

Interesting. Something like that might help out the real tall guys too. You could take a shaft, add the aluminum piece and glue an extra length of shaft to it. You could feasibly add 12+ inches to a stick. Balance could be an issue.

If you had used an aluminum tube, you might not have such an issue with weight.

Balance would definetly be an issue although you wouldn't notice it as much compared to having it in between your hand or below your bottom hand

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Great Idea!! But wouldn't it destroy balance?

Well like an old tennis "coach" once said, "...YouTuuk if your good enough, you don't need those "fancy" rackets, you could beat'em with a dishpan..."

and then I asked wiseman "How do I become great?" then the wiseman once said,

"YouTuuk.....you practice until you get it right...."

So I did and came home ready to go upstairs to bed after hours of shooting....

Wiseman then said, "Did you get it right?" YouTuuk said, "yes"

now go back to the rink and practice until you CAN'T GET IT WRONG...thats how you become great!!!!!

Moral of story: weather aluminum plug with holes in it or fancy Bauer OPS

to go topshelf on command, needs practice....

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Great Idea!! But wouldn't it destroy balance?

Well like an old tennis "coach" once said, "...YouTuuk if your good enough, you don't need those "fancy" rackets, you could beat'em with a dishpan..."

and then I asked wiseman "How do I become great?" then the wiseman once said,

"YouTuuk.....you practice until you get it right...."

So I did and came home ready to go upstairs to bed after hours of shooting....

Wiseman then said, "Did you get it right?" YouTuuk said, "yes"

now go back to the rink and practice until you CAN'T GET IT WRONG...thats how you become great!!!!!

Moral of story: weather aluminum plug with holes in it or fancy Bauer OPS

to go topshelf on command, needs practice....

There are tears in my eyes and cheesy orchestral music playing.

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LOL....

Hey but there is a key difference between IGGY's setup and a regular blade with a build in "tenon"...That is it has two points where it may come apart, where the "tenon" inserts into the shaft, and also where the "tenon" inserts into the blade.

In fact if you want to get techincal its really a "3 piece" stick, but it looks solid.

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Tuuk you right about it technically being a 3 peice stick but the part that goes into the blade isn't coming out. I had to smack in the last inch or so into the shaft and it made the garphite near the very begging of the curve bubble up just ever so slighty and with the glue and electrical tape packing it tight, it isn't coming out.

So my guess came close as for the weight: 253 grams. so about twice the weight of a normal tapered blade.

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Well i just tried it out and I am impressed as it exceeded my expectations. I started out with some wrist shots, just light ones, then some snap shots. I started taking some slap shots but that was with a spongee puck. It felt decent in my hands, a bit heavy obviously, but the added weight gave it a bit of kick. I'd say it added a tiny bit of flex but it's hard to tell as I hadn't used it since i broke it about 3 months ago.

Finally I moved on to hard wrist shots and hard slap shots and it was great. The slapshots had a bit more speed than with my other sticks thanks to the kick/momentum it gave to the stick. Same sort of thing on wrist shots as well. I tried some saucer passes but they seemed to wobble a bit, it could just be i'm not used to the curve or it could be the weight.

Overall it was definitely worth it to salvage this stick as it is hard to find but with the other blade I am just going to look for a stick fix company.

I'll likely just use this stick for fun and for roller hockey and I'll let you know how it holds up.

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I did this to the middle of a shaft on a Vector 10.0 OPS. I used a shaved down peace of maple wood so it would just fit in half the part of the broken shaft (cut to a flat line so there was no more cracks in the shaft). I then used Gorilla Glue to keep the wood in both ends of the shaft. It worked for a while but then became loose. I never did break the stick apart in two pieces it just came loose.

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Overall it was definitely worth it to salvage this stick as it is hard to find but with the other blade I am just going to look for a stick fix company.

I'll likely just use this stick for fun and for roller hockey and I'll let you know how it holds up.

Oh definitely, with gas pushing $3.50 a gallon - a penny saved it a penny earned, in fact if you fix up a few sticks like that you can feel good about it and treat yourself to a new pair of One95's skates this summer.

As for Dougie8, you just gave me an idea - after our last game I saw a broken Easton Synergy 350 lying on the ground - and my buddy said, "you want it, take it" - it was broken right in the middle of the shaft. So I think I will perform a little surgery in the future on it. I have had SRS fix some sticks in the past for $40, but I will try it myself this time.

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