Anyone want to see what my custom composite blade mold looks like?

[blahster 3]

Just retreived my custom mold back from the manufacture that no longer wanted to deal with the general public.

Thought I'd share exactly what the mold looks like.

[BRUINS_FAN_74 19]

That's awesome!! Thanks for posting these!

[blahster 3]

In case anyone is curious, I originally created this blade from a Brett Hull Pro stock. Prior to molding I added epoxy to square out the top portion of the toe. I feel this helps when I push the puck forward and immediately use the toe to stop the pucks momemtum. Also helps with backhand toe-drags. I kept the original extreme blade rocker Hull used. I also used a torch to straighten out his crazy toe curve. It is now a fairly straight blade with a ton of rocker. I absolutely love it.

Here are two photos of what the mold produced..

[IPv6Freely 2096]

Huh, weird. But really cool photos, thanks for sharing!

[Neo5370 132]

Which company did you go through?

[blahster 3]

I had to put up a pretty big stink to get it returned to me. Apparently, in the thousands of molds they have done, they have never returned one to anyone. So... I am grateful they agreed and do not want to throw them under the bus for doing so. All I can say is they are a major player in the pro market. I still have a handful of blades but am attempting to have this mold used by another manufacture to keep production going.

[hawkeyfan 36]

Very cool. Especially seeing the blade that was used in making the mold.

[hawkeyfan 36]

So, with the shift and blade market disappearing, where would one turn to get custom made blades?

I have not seen all the new catalogs.

Bauer still makes shafts and blades

CCM has a new abs blade

Sherwood appears to being phased out...along with warrior.

The writing as I see it will be pro only...soon enough...except for anyone wanting to support abs for online use.

[Neo5370 132]

You can probably still get blades through Base as well as Harrow, though I don't know if Harrow has stopped producing and is just selling old stock.