Mislabeled / Mismanufactured Sticks or Blades

[ATLstealth09 0]

I bought a blade off of a member over a year ago, and just had it sitting in my garage for a while. Finally pulled it out to use back in October, and realized that it was either completely mismanufactured, or some putz at Warrior slapped on the wrong label.

It's a Dolomite 2 blade, marked as SR RH Fedorov Lie 4.

Everything is right... except the lie part. It's looking like almost a 6.5. The below picture is the blade compared to a "normal" Lie 4 Dolomite 2 blade.

http://charles.lu.9.googlepages.com/IMG_0204.JPG

Anyone encounter something like this?

[interpathway 9]

Warrior has its own lie labeling system. In no way is a Warrior 4,5,6 close to being equivalent to an Easton/RBK/or whatever's 4,5,6.

Why they did this on their sticks I haven't the foggiest.

edit: Whoa, didn't realize you were matching it up with another Warrior...maybe from different years/production runs?

[kovey10 0]

Could it be a pro stock blade? This could be why the lie is so much higher than youre other Warrior blade?

[ATLstealth09 0]

I'm pretty sure it's a retail blade. There is a sticker on the blade face that says "Lie 4."

[TBLfan 25]

Warrior is kind of like the kid that ate paste in kindergarten.

[Drewhunz 3]

Well put by the guy that actually did eat paste in kindergarten. :P

[TBLfan 25]

We were too poor for paste... I had pencil shavings. :(

[Chadd 916]

I would return it and get a correct one.

[TBLfan 25]

Looking at it, based on the lie at the heel(which I believe is the way Warrior measures lie), it's pretty close.

I really wish there was a standard, middle of the blade measurement for lie.

[ATLstealth09 0]

I was under the impression that lie was based on angle between the flat edge of the blade and the hosel, not just a heel measurement. Most blades have a rocker in the heel, but it seems that either they went too far, or continued the rocker through the blade.

[Bender 0]

No comment on the blade as I really don't know much about blades... But I do wish camera companies would lay back on the megapixels in cameras, massive pictures are so damned annoying not everyone has super fast broadband or anything like that...

Soory, it's just a pet-hate

[Rustyhole 1]

whoa, that's CRAZY BIG!!

wait til people start quoting it :(

[SolidifiedPenguin 0]

The lie is a lie, there is no cake.

[JR Boucicaut 3808]

ATLStealth - I have warned people time and time again about this. There is no need to put a pic THAT big in a thread.

http://www.modsquadhockey.com/forums/index...showtopic=42280

I really wish there was a standard, middle of the blade measurement for lie.

As long as you have a rockered blade, it simply cannot be done.

[hockeysc23 0]

The only real miss-manufactured stick I have is a Brooks Laich Right Hand Synergy Elite from the Washington Caps. Broosky is a left hand shot. I got him to sign it and asked him about it and he said Easton just screwed up and sent him his curve, and everything else but in a right hand.

Nothing super special but I think its neat.

[Jarick 5]

I've seen a handful of Easton blades at a LHS that had the pattern crossed out and a sticker indicating the correct pattern. And I did get a 70 flex Octane that was so ridiculously stiff it HAD to be a 95 flex mislabeled.

[TBLfan 25]

I was under the impression that lie was based on angle between the flat edge of the blade and the hosel, not just a heel measurement. Most blades have a rocker in the heel, but it seems that either they went too far, or continued the rocker through the blade.

Hence the issue with all of Warrior's lies being lower than Eastons and incomparable to different Warrior patterns.

There is definitely a way to be more accurate. It might not be dead-center in the middle of the blade, maybe the terminology might be different. Instead of "5.5 lie", maybe "5.5LR lie" with "LR" short for large rocker. A blade with a large rocker will play more similar to one with a small rocker near the middle of the blade moreso than the heel of the blade.

[ATLstealth09 0]

ATLStealth - I have warned people time and time again about this. There is no need to put a pic THAT big in a thread.

Duly noted. Sorry about that. I don't think I had been very active in September.