"Neutral" face blades. Sorry, I don't get it

[Allsmokenopancake 0]

Ok, so looking at the pattern DB, the options are

Closed, Neutral, Open, Slightly Open, Very Open.

I understand the difference between the closed, and open, all the various stages of open that is.

But what is a neutral face.

I'm sure it's obvious, but I'm just not getting it. It seems like it's either open, or closed, if it's not closed, it is varying shades of open.

So what does neutral mean.

Sorry, I've had a lot of stupid questions recently, I'm sort of improving, so the basic questions are starting to mean a little more to me now

[JR Boucicaut 3760]

No, closed is when it folds over. Neutral is what you're thinking of when you think closed.

For instance, my custom blades are neutral. Whenever I am shooting high I heat them up and step down on the face, closing the curve.

[mack 44]

I think neutral has absolutely no shovel to it and closed actually has a reverse shovel on it. That's always been my take on it as I've seen blades that actually have negative shovel on it.

[TBLfan 25]

The way I've always thought of it is as a twist independent of the initial curve.

[JR Boucicaut 3760]

Mack's got it

[number21 3]

is it soemething like (looking down the toe of the blade left is the face of the blade, right is the back)?

neutral |

closed \

open /

[K9 Unit 1]

i believe most of them got it right but if u look at some neutral blades is not always | i think its neutral because the manufacturers leave the blade alone after they curve it...so they don't do anything to face of the blade

[IniNew 51]

i believe most of them got it right but if u look at some neutral blades is not always | i think its neutral because the manufacturers leave the blade alone after they curve it...so they don't do anything to face of the blade

I don't think so. There might be slight discrepancies from blade to blade but it's not because the manufacturer intended for it to be that way.

[interpathway 9]

So what does John LeClair's blade fall under? :lol:

http://patterndb.org/main.php?g2_view=core..._serialNumber=4

[JR Boucicaut 3760]

Ha, I knew LeClair's stick would come up...

It is a closed RH stick. :)

[cptjeff 0]

So what does John LeClair's blade fall under? :lol:

http://patterndb.org/main.php?g2_view=core..._serialNumber=4

There's gotta be a good story behind that one...

[interpathway 9]

If they ever produce it at retail will they copy Warrior's FUBAR to name it?

[JR Boucicaut 3760]

So what does John LeClair's blade fall under? :lol:

http://patterndb.org/main.php?g2_view=core..._serialNumber=4

There's gotta be a good story behind that one...

He just parked his ass in front of the net, put the blade down, and it'd ramp off top shelf. Or he just turned around and shoveled it upstairs.

[mack 44]

His last technique was if given about 20' of room he'd scrape the ceiling and let a slapper go.

[gxc999 7]

I really like the neutral faced blades a lot now. It helps prevent me throwing it over the net and everything seems easier with it. I think going with a completely closed face would be going too far for me. And I've had several arguments over whether or not curves were neutral or closed, sometimes it seems impossible to tell.

[Allsmokenopancake 0]

OK, so now I get it. Cheers folks.

So, If I really like the depth and curve of the Thornton curve, but would like the face just a hint more open, then the afinagenov curve might work for me? It's essentially the same curve, with a neutral face instead of closed, and a 5 lie instead of 6.

I use a CCM OPS with the thornton curve, and I like it a lot, but would prefer a whippier stick. I have a whip flex CCM grip shaft, that I like, but didn't like my blades, and couldn't find the thornton curve locally. So I got the afinagenov curve Sunday, will get to try it out Friday night.

Thanks for clearing it up for me

[interpathway 9]

If your CCM shaft is tapered, KCI has Sherwood RM9 Tapered blades in the Coffey curve, which is a clone of the Thorton.

[K9 Unit 1]

I really like the neutral faced blades a lot now. It helps prevent me throwing it over the net and everything seems easier with it. I think going with a completely closed face would be going too far for me. And I've had several arguments over whether or not curves were neutral or closed, sometimes it seems impossible to tell.

lol ye same here...plus it doesn't help every site lists the curves a lil differently

[Allsmokenopancake 0]

If your CCM shaft is tapered, KCI has Sherwood RM9 Tapered blades in the Coffey curve, which is a clone of the Thorton.

Thanks for the tip, but it's a standard shaft. I bought an Afinagenov blade on Sunday in Fairfax. It's essentially Thornton with a neutral face (which I now know what neutral means), so I'm hoping it will make it a little easier for me to get the puck up. I know it's all technique, but this might aid me. If I had been able to get the puck 3-4 inches higher on sunday, I would have had a game tying goal with about 30 seconds left.