Bad luck with easton

[Jesse_01 0]

So my s17 blade broke on last thurs or fri. So I'm using my new s19. I have about 4 games on it play mens rec c hockey. So I'm on the point and T up a slap shot. It breaks right at the S on the s19 and goes fly up and gets stuck in the netting behind the net. So thats $500 worth of sticks broken in under a week. Oh and for further reference it looks like thats where you would cut to fit a tapered blade in lol.

[MastodonX 0]

No warrantly left on the stick ??

[Jesse_01 0]

Its about 5 days over and I bought it from cyclone taylors online. So I guess we will see. Their warranty policy is

All warranty items must recieve an Return Authorization number. The customer is responsible for all shipping costs, shipping the product back to us and also the return shipping to the customer. No package without an RA number will be accepted back. The basic warranty policy is repair or replace at the manufacturer's discretion. The manufacturer's word is final on warranty decisions. As the manufacturer or local rep must decide what does and does not qualify for warranty, any item may take anywhere from 1-3 weeks to be warrantied. If the item is not deemed as a warranty the original item will be shipped back to the customer.

[Moose 1]

After using Easton shafts/blades and OPS sticks for ~10 ten years I picked up a one95 and haven't looked back. They are definitely lasting longer then my old SEs. If anyone on your team has one see if they'll let you stick handle and take a couple of shots. I am very particular about my sticks and make a good transition to the Bauer side.

[westcoastsniper 0]

use wood.

[Cams 7]

I found Easton blades are brittle, and still have a SE shaft with a comp Synthesis blade in it, plus a spare. I have recently been using at Bauer XXXX and I love it! I want to try a One90, as I have heard great things about this too. I may be a different blade once the synthesis goes on the heel, like the last one. I find Easton makes a very good shaft, and most of the OPS are good stick, but wow their blades seem to chip very easily.

[SolarWind 23]

use wood.

sure - if the durability isn't any of your concern

because the wood chips & shreads in no time.

One95 wooden blade laster me 6-7 games tops before it became soft beyond reason.

[Moose 1]

I had more problems with cracking, splitting, and various water-related problems with my old sher-wood brand wood blades then I did with focus flex blades.

use wood.

[the_sock 1]

Can't really cut down a S19 or S17 because the fused area is pretty high on the shaft because of the torx hosel. I've also found that the Easton blades are fairly soft on the S19/S17.

My roommate uses a ONE95 with no issues, hard playing center and no real issues with durability, just lost it's kick from using it for so long (that would be good news to me if that was mine).

Try a tapered two piece, you'll get the low kick point of a OPS plus the option of changing a broken blade. Worked for me before being forced to use a OPS (literally).

Cheers

[Chadd 916]

I've also found that I'm much better off financially using composite blades. They only cost about twice as much as a good wood blade but last more like 4-5x times longer than a wood blade.

[Jesse_01 0]

I was looking at switch to 2 piece. But I would have to order blades and probably shaft online. I'm looking at getting a hold of a rh smyth blade or a broken ovi pro stock and getting a company to make me some custom comp blades. I'm leaning towards getting a warrior AK27 shaft.

[shotty 7]

on the bright side, the S19 makes a great shaft for a 2 piece set up. i've used it with dolo blade and pro stock mission blade, and i've enjoyed the results. dolomite seems to balance the stick out better though with the plug i have in.

[Jesse_01 0]

I sent it back under warranty, got lucky. I turned my s17 into a shaft thought. I cut it right at the S. I just need to get a proper blade. I shaved down a wood blade, but it nothing special. There is a tapered smyth blade online I was kinda looking at. But the guy wants like $70 for it on ebay :s

There is also a pro stock ovechkin on there to that caught my eye. But $200 is a bit step. Looks pretty sweet though.

[Sniper90 0]

easton sticks, i find are great in performance, but their blades, as mentioned earlier are as brittle as shit. I dont understand how they can charge 200+ dollars on "high end" sticks when they will usually not last longer than a month. What is messed up as well is that easton keeps coming up with these "new" harder and better performing blades yet they still break like no ones business... For them, I guess it's totally about marketting and getting retail sales. There is no way they would send out those blades to Pro's. When I used Easton sticks a few years back, the blade would always break before the shaft (I still think Easton makes the best shafts out there), but now, my sticks last a lot longer and it's usually the shaft that breaks before the blade (usually by freak accidents).

oh yea, lastly, who would actually spend MSRP on easton sticks nemore.. i only pay for either pro stocks or last year models and I won't spend more than 150 for any stick anymore.

[wetwilly17 6]

i think it just depends which model you get. a couple years ago i bought a bunch of retail synergy sl's at a very low price thinking i got a good deal. the blades on those sticks were absolutely the worst when it comes to durability that i have ever experienced. i was really pissed at easton. later on, i read that the stealth cnts were durable. so i came across a good deal and bought 4 retail cnts. they were the most durable ops i have ever owned.

[Jesse_01 0]

I think for my personal preference I'm going to stick with pro-stock for now on. I had a few in the past and they ended up being tough sticks. In the pro's, the more that break, the more money they lose. In the consumer market, the more that break, the more money they make cause seems like they always break outside of 30 days.

[Sniper90 0]

i think it just depends which model you get. a couple years ago i bought a bunch of retail synergy sl's at a very low price thinking i got a good deal. the blades on those sticks were absolutely the worst when it comes to durability that i have ever experienced. i was really pissed at easton. later on, i read that the stealth cnts were durable. so i came across a good deal and bought 4 retail cnts. they were the most durable ops i have ever owned.

the stealth cnt's were the only blades that LOOKED durable out of all their lines that came out AFTEr the original synergy.....

[Jesse_01 0]

Instead of spending $$ on another fancy stick. I picked up a sher-wood blade and shaved it down for my s17 and a wood sher-wood for when the slashing gets rough in the game. $40 is alot cheaper than 150-200 lol.

[Sav25 1]

Wood sticks all the way

You boys must be filthy rich to keep buying composite sticks.

I would have bought a composite by now if it wasnt for all the threads about broken shafts, taper problems, blade problems, handling/shooting problems, cost etc.....let alone all of the 'stick surgeons' out there...

...there must be a lot of breakages if someone can earn a living fixing them!!

I'll keep my heavy wood stick and continue to have money in my pocket and a harder shot than the rest of the team...

[IniNew 53]

You hear about the problems because no one goes out of their way to praise something. Sure they will say something is good when asked, but you don't see people running to the "New Topic" button to talk about their Comp. stick lasting 2 years.

I personally have had a great experience with my 2 Warrior Dolomite (one '08 and one '09) two-pieces. I've had them for nearly 8 months switching between the two and have not noticed any degrade in performance.

[Ahriman 1]

You hear about the problems because no one goes out of their way to praise something. Sure they will say something is good when asked, but you don't see people running to the "New Topic" button to talk about their Comp. stick lasting 2 years.

Last december I broke my 2nd of 2 original gray Synergy sticks. I bought them in 2002, used them through high school and 4 years of rec league hockey. I'd say I got my money's worth for a $100 stick.

For all the worrying he's done about bad reviews of composite sticks there is so many more good ones, individually they're all anecdotes, not proof that the sticks wont last past half your season.

Every time I see someone being influenced by a single negative review or even a large number of them, I just point them to Amazon and have them look up their favorite beatles record, the reverse sort by rating. You'll find 20 reviews of people saying they were the worst band in the history of music.

[Sniper90 0]

You hear about the problems because no one goes out of their way to praise something. Sure they will say something is good when asked, but you don't see people running to the "New Topic" button to talk about their Comp. stick lasting 2 years.

I personally have had a great experience with my 2 Warrior Dolomite (one '08 and one '09) two-pieces. I've had them for nearly 8 months switching between the two and have not noticed any degrade in performance.

WOrd.... I have never had a Warrior stick or blade prematurely break on me. The only breakages I've had with my Warrior stick is as follows:

Macdaddy: smashed it over the boards after owning it for 3 months

Macdaddy: shaft broke after roughly 3 months of league play/dropins (paying 2-3 times a week)

Dolomite: shaft exploding while flexing at home after owning for 4-5 months(took lots of abuse)

Kronik: SHalf exploded after 29 days. It was because I blocked a slapper with it.

Of all those sticks I did not pay MSRP for them. The first macdaddy was when it first came out. I got it for 200 taxes in with warranty. The second I got for about the same price I think. Dolo I got for 200 and the Kronik I got for 160. I currently have 2 Kroniks in a Smyth Blade pattern. One still has a 35 days left on the warranty and the other was my replacement for the last Kronik that broke.

So I am more than happy with each stick lasting about 3+ months, especially when it is NOT the blade that is breaking on me. The shaft takes a lot of abuse from slashes and sometimes it can't be prevented. It's when the blade keep breaking prematurely from just shooting the puck that pisses me off (ahem Easton ahem). I remember seeing a youtube clip of sykora going through 100 eastons a year! But then again he was heating up the toe of the comp blade and altering it.. I dunno why he didn't just get a custom curve.

Before full composites were introduced, I was going through a wooden stick every week or TWO if I was lucky. So thats about 30 bucks a week.. add that up, and up spending anywhere from 60-120 a month on wooden sticks. Suffice to say, I am probably saving money having a composite last me 2-3 months, AND I am getting better performance. Oh yea, saving trees too :)

[hockeysc23 0]

look into the Bauer sticks. I use to only use Easton then in the course of 3 days I broke a SL, ST and S17 in back to back to back SNPs from shooting. All the blades.

My Bauer one90 I've been using for over a year now and it still has some kick in it and has lasted a long time. Cheaper than all my Eastons and lasted longer.

[jimmy 194]

You hear about the problems because no one goes out of their way to praise something. Sure they will say something is good when asked, but you don't see people running to the "New Topic" button to talk about their Comp. stick lasting 2 years.

Last december I broke my 2nd of 2 original gray Synergy sticks. I bought them in 2002, used them through high school and 4 years of rec league hockey. I'd say I got my money's worth for a $100 stick.

For all the worrying he's done about bad reviews of composite sticks there is so many more good ones, individually they're all anecdotes, not proof that the sticks wont last past half your season.

Every time I see someone being influenced by a single negative review or even a large number of them, I just point them to Amazon and have them look up their favorite beatles record, the reverse sort by rating. You'll find 20 reviews of people saying they were the worst band in the history of music.

Well said. It's amazing how people actually believe single reviews on forums. My favorite is the "how is the new xxxxx skate?" posting. Then the answer, "it sucks, I got blisters first time I skated on it" Lastly, the follow up reply, "Oh thanks, I won't get them then."

Back to sticks, as someone who fixes a lot of composite sticks, I can honestly say they ALL break and many do break quick, even the models those with the anecdotal, "my favorite stick model never breaks" comments.

[english15x 3]

I also have found bauer sticks to last longer than easton's. it's something with eastons blade that they just sponge up way too quick. i switched the bauer when the vapor xxx lite's came out and havent used a diff brand since.

i would say drop easton unless you have a stick tree growing you s19's