Pro-Stock Curves

[cammerz12 0]

With the variety of retail curves, how do most pros come to making their own curve. do they work with some to tweak it or fit it to their needs, etc.?

[fieldofdreams 0]

After reading all the posts about toe curves, I really wante to try one. What would be the best way? There are really no retail toe curves. Should I just tweak a wood blade? If so, what's the best way to accomplish that?

[Datsyukrulez13 0]

After reading all the posts about toe curves, I really wante to try one. What would be the best way? There are really no retail toe curves. Should I just tweak a wood blade? If so, what's the best way to accomplish that?

Warrior Smyth???its a lie 4 strait faced toe curve (w/ a round toe)....... thats all i know

[Jarick 5]

Search for the Mission Pro Stock thread. HockeyMonkey.com has a ton of pro stock blades, some of them being toe curves.

[interpathway 9]

Been posted here a billion times, but if you have the money this is a great way to go.

http://www.passvilan.com/1avymennec.html

[caldakid 0]

wow talk about thread jack x4, feel bad for the OP.

i would think the pros probably use the curve they grew up on then make small modifications to better suit them.. whether it be lie, more curve etc.

[kovalchuk71 212]

Yeah, but Spezzas? How bout that goofy toe?

[TBLfan 25]

Look at hull's pattern, just as odd. With wood blades you could easily modify the curve and trim the blade if need-be. Both, of course, shorten the lifetime of the blade but not nearly as much as doing this to composite blades. With composite being soo popular now, we're probably coming up to an era of pros that use retail patterns. Drastic differences probably won't be very common in pro stock patterns in 10 years.

[numberthirteen 0]

Been posted here a billion times, but if you have the money this is a great way to go.

http://www.passvilan.com/1avymennec.html

Whaaaoh, Check out the 'White' and 'Brennan' curves at the bottom of the page.

[starsfan71 9]

Do you mean the Benning?

[jsmart 0]

Been posted here a billion times, but if you have the money this is a great way to go.

http://www.passvilan.com/1avymennec.html

how do you know how much money you need? I don't see any prices...

Been posted here a billion times, but if you have the money this is a great way to go.

http://www.passvilan.com/1avymennec.html

Whaaaoh, Check out the 'White' and 'Brennan' curves at the bottom of the page.

Those are interesting...

[fatwabbit 93]

Get a cheap wood curve and re-curve it to try it out first. No point spending the dough trying out something that you might not like.

I just re-curved some woodies I had laying around over the weekend... just heat and bend, heat and bend...

[shawn o 0]

I have a 30 year old Northland hockey stick and the curve on it is IDENTICAL to the Iginla curve. Most pros don't "make" their own curve. They find one that works for them and they stick with it. After many years and sponsorships it suddently "becomes" their curve...

[Rustpot 1]

I have a 30 year old Northland hockey stick and the curve on it is IDENTICAL to the Iginla curve. Most pros don't "make" their own curve. They find one that works for them and they stick with it. After many years and sponsorships it suddently "becomes" their curve...

...no. The curves at retail have no bearing/relationship to the curves used by the players they are named after.

Yzerman used a "Drury" style heel wedge and the curve with his name at retail was a huge mid meat hook.

[Darkbyte 0]

Been posted here a billion times, but if you have the money this is a great way to go.

http://www.passvilan.com/1avymennec.html

Whaaaoh, Check out the 'White' and 'Brennan' curves at the bottom of the page.

BENNING

Lots of interesting curves, I somehow dont think it would be easy to get a hold of them and stupidly expensive if you could, which is a shame.

[TBLfan 25]

I like that Benning pattern. Too bad he's LH, I need that in a RH pattern.

[jsmart 0]

I like that Benning pattern. Too bad he's LH, I need that in a RH pattern.

now that's funny...

[CTK30 0]

I have a straight blade they are left and right handed

They have a little loft to them and they are kind of rounded on the back

I'm not sure about the blade in the link though

[ZINC 8]

I dunno about that passvilan place. I've tried calling and emailing them several times to order a bunch of blades and have yet to get ahold of them. Anyone have any luck with them recently?

[fieldofdreams 0]

I haven't tried yet ZINC, but if they do email back, let me know. I'm interested in trying some patterns.

[db88 0]

After reading all the posts about toe curves, I really wante to try one. What would be the best way? There are really no retail toe curves. Should I just tweak a wood blade? If so, what's the best way to accomplish that?

try a sakic, easton. Or a smyth, warrior.

[-venom- 0]

I dunno about that passvilan place. I've tried calling and emailing them several times to order a bunch of blades and have yet to get ahold of them. Anyone have any luck with them recently?

I emailed them a while back, and got a pretty quick response.

Although my request was for something similar to: Toe-Mid/Toe Curve, Square Toe, Slightly Open, 5-6lie, moderate curve depth

And their response?

Ah yes, we have a LIDSTROM curve which is what you are looking for. <_<

So yeah......

After reading all the posts about toe curves, I really wante to try one. What would be the best way? There are really no retail toe curves. Should I just tweak a wood blade? If so, what's the best way to accomplish that?

try a sakic, easton. Or a smyth, warrior.

Easton Sakic/Bauer P92 are definitely not 'toe' enough... supposedly "mid/toe", but I dunno....

[djm 0]

After reading all the posts about toe curves, I really wante to try one. What would be the best way? There are really no retail toe curves. Should I just tweak a wood blade? If so, what's the best way to accomplish that?

try a sakic, easton. Or a smyth, warrior.

I don't think either are true toe curves. The Smyth is more of a toe curve than the Sakic though.

[HattrickSwayze 3]

I got a hold of Pasvilan and they told me the composite blades started around $36 or something, but shipping to the US started around $50 if I remember right.

[-venom- 0]

I got a hold of Pasvilan and they told me the composite blades started around $36 or something, but shipping to the US started around $50 if I remember right.

Sounds about right. Per blade? Wonder what shipping would be on say, 10?