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hockeykid1 wrote:I've had my skates sharpened at almost all these places and they are all very bad at sharpening skates
That's probably because only he does it...not just any HS kid that gets a job at a store.hesabaddmann wrote:Sal of Saint Paul Park doesn't know much about hockey,but no one knows more about sharpening metals,be it a chainsaw ,lawnmower blade,or a skate blade....radius,rocker,deep hollow,who cares.....make it sharp with no knicks to trip a kid up,thats what he does all for just $2.50 .......he has a homemade device that he uses to check to see that both sides are even...its basically his eye,and in my opinion no one does it better anywhere....once a kids been on his blades they all can tell if anyone else did the job instead...NEVER heard a complaint about his work,ever.....
Yes they do have been getting them sharpened there for years. Great jobSEC Scotty wrote:Cunningham Sports does a good job.
HOFam'r wrote:what about boyer blades??? He seems to know what is going on?Neutron 14 wrote:Can't Never Tried wrote:This is a good topic.....
Knowing a bit about this subject I'll share some insight.
1st it's not so much where you get your skates done it's who's behind the machine and their knowledge of the principles.
The first consideration is the rocker of the blade..this is is determined by the size and style of skater, a smaller light weight agile skater should have a smaller rocker say 11' rocker where as a heavier 6' + tall skater should be closer to the 12'- 13' mark rocker...this is all determined by radial push from the hips to keep maximum contact with the ice thru the stride.
Next is the blade radius this also has a bit to do with size but again more to do with position they play...a smaller size fwd. player that makes a lot of aggressive moves can utilize a deeper radius say as small as 1/4" to 3/8" but will give up speed for the agility.
A defensive player that's more concerned with being able to adjust quickly will also use a smaller radius as speed is not as important as making the quick adjustments to the on coming fwd's.
A bigger fwd. player that needs flat out speed will go as high as 3/4"-1" radius.... they give up the hard cuts for the breakaway speed.
The centering of the radius is probably the most important factor, there should be no more then .002" difference between the the high points on either side of the blade...very few places I've seen actually have a gage to measure this.
After all the above is completed the last factor is the honing of the edges this should be done both before and after the skate is sharpened...the before removes any side nicks in the blade and allows for a very easy job of removing the sharpening burrs after sharpening.
If the place you get your skates done does all this you have found the sweet heart of skate sharpening... best of luck..but get what your paying for....
mghockeystud wrote:HOFam'r wrote:what about boyer blades??? He seems to know what is going on?Neutron 14 wrote:
The guys on my team call Boyer the Skate Nazi. not too many still get skates done there.
Al is a real pro - consistently real good in my experience!HOFam'r wrote:what about boyer blades??? He seems to know what is going on?
I could be wrong, but i think that score sports was torn down during all the development in the area, and being run out of bussiness becasue of Letterman's, Sports Hut, and the Plymouth Ice CenterGovs93 wrote:There's a little tiny place in Plymouth on 55 - I think it's called Score Sports or something... looks like an old 1 bedroom house that's crammed full of gear, and you have to go down to the dank basement where all of their sticks are (they can't fit them on the main floor) to get skates sharpened. It's just an old, unfinished concrete basement.
I went there one time a couple of years back, and I think they did an ok job - seemed to last for a while.
It's a really interesting place.
I could be wrong about the name of the place, but I know it's there. It's on the corner of Hwy 55 & Peony Ln, just about half a mile in front of Wayzata High School... it's right next to a newer development with an SA & Culvers.pipes3030 wrote:I could be wrong, but i think that score sports was torn down during all the development in the area, and being run out of bussiness becasue of Letterman's, Sports Hut, and the Plymouth Ice CenterGovs93 wrote:There's a little tiny place in Plymouth on 55 - I think it's called Score Sports or something... looks like an old 1 bedroom house that's crammed full of gear, and you have to go down to the dank basement where all of their sticks are (they can't fit them on the main floor) to get skates sharpened. It's just an old, unfinished concrete basement.
I went there one time a couple of years back, and I think they did an ok job - seemed to last for a while.
It's a really interesting place.
I drove past yesteray, and it is called Score Sports. They're still there. Interesting place.Govs93 wrote:I could be wrong about the name of the place, but I know it's there. It's on the corner of Hwy 55 & Peony Ln, just about half a mile in front of Wayzata High School... it's right next to a newer development with an SA & Culvers.pipes3030 wrote:I could be wrong, but i think that score sports was torn down during all the development in the area, and being run out of bussiness becasue of Letterman's, Sports Hut, and the Plymouth Ice CenterGovs93 wrote:There's a little tiny place in Plymouth on 55 - I think it's called Score Sports or something... looks like an old 1 bedroom house that's crammed full of gear, and you have to go down to the dank basement where all of their sticks are (they can't fit them on the main floor) to get skates sharpened. It's just an old, unfinished concrete basement.
I went there one time a couple of years back, and I think they did an ok job - seemed to last for a while.
It's a really interesting place.
