For you sharpeners out there...

[lb33knight 0]

I sharpened a pair once that had a small colony of ants living in the front of the holder. The vibration from the machine made them start to swarm out. And these weren't little ants. The were the big type with wings. I had the feeling that something was crawling on me for the rest of the day. Don't leave your gear outside!

[Gummer12 134]

Did everyone forget about how much heat is generated doing this? The time it takes to keep letting the blades cool is aggrevating enough. I have parents on my sons squirt travel team who beg me to sharpen their goalie skates and I refuse.

If you have to wait between passes to let the blades cool down, you're doing something wrong. And refusing to sharpen a Squirts skate? Don't care how bad they are, squirt skates shouldn't take no more than 2-3 minutes whip out. If they smell That bad, hit em with Lysol, or put a clothespin or a dustmask on.

[JR Boucicaut 3805]

He's saying that he won't sharpen the goal skates.

[sogaduch 0]

the mouse and frog is rather gross and for sure be impossible to beat but most ive had is a crusty old sock and just a 1/4inch thick of rust on the bottom of the blade that took numerous amount of cross grinds to just get off and steel wool. I have had a couple skates that just reaked so much that we wanted to burn the insides and we imagine that little evil spirits will float out like when mr burns burned homers stoner cutters underwear and the spirits floated up saying EEEVIILLLL

LOL

1/4 inch sharp yeah we had one guy want it right he wanted new skates ohhh that was a long sharpening

[ringer 0]

well i cant beat the frog or mouse, but the skates that get dropped of and reak of something terrible, and are dripping wet with sweat/moisture. just disgusting

[jrgretzky99 1]

Did everyone forget about how much heat is generated doing this? The time it takes to keep letting the blades cool is aggrevating enough. I have parents on my sons squirt travel team who beg me to sharpen their goalie skates and I refuse.

If you have to wait between passes to let the blades cool down, you're doing something wrong. And refusing to sharpen a Squirts skate? Don't care how bad they are, squirt skates shouldn't take no more than 2-3 minutes whip out. If they smell That bad, hit em with Lysol, or put a clothespin or a dustmask on.

I've been sharpening skates a while and I'm talking about doing them at home. I'm not dressing down the wheel that far for a once in a great while goaile sharpening and I don't care what you say if you are using a ruby wheel and you want to take off a lot of steel, you are going to get them hot (unless you wait some time between passes). And if it takes you a while to get that goalie skate on center of the wheel due to the different thickness, you are going to have to make quite a few passes. I'm not talking about smell.

Also, did I mention that I don't charge any families on my team for a sharpening either. I don't offer but if they ask me I take them and touch them up for free.

Not only that, the problem is that with carbon steel, with the additional passes it is easy to burn the wheel.

And overheat the steel. What am I missing here?

[VakarLajos 5]

you won't sharpen any goalie skates? or just those at deep hollows?

Even with deep hollow goalie skates the only reason it will generate a lot of heat is if you've cross ground it before and have to make the hollow from scratch. If you're setting it to match the existing hollow it's no different than any other skate.