Quality ice skate sharpening in Brisbane, Australia
Why should I sharpen my blades?
Every time you skate on the ice you are wearing down the edges on your blades.
If you continually stop the same way, you are wearing down the edges in one place more than the rest of your blades.
If you do not remember to wear your skate guards when walking around or to put fluffies/soakers on your skates between sessions to protect your blades, they will dull quicker or get nicks.
The longer you leave between sharpens, the more difference you will feel and more adjustment period will be required, even if the edges are correct (both before and after sharpening), and you have the same depth of groove.
A representation of how your edges wear down while skating. (top is a keen edge after sharpening). The longer you leave sharpening the rounder the edges and the more of the blade is wasted by achieving a keen edge again.A representation of a pair of blades recently sharpened. The edge on the left is the edge that was used to stop most of the time. The blades had not been sharpened in a long time. Imagine trying to get used to skating on keen edges with the same depth of groove. Also how much of the blade that was ground away in order to achieve keen and level edges again.A deeper groove has a more pronounced edge which means it rounds off faster because the weight is being supported by less area. Imagine skating on two knife blades or two pebbles, which will change sharpness faster? A deeper groove with ‘thinner’ edges are also easier to damage, so they need to be looked after especially well.
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