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- From: blenko-tom@CS.YALE.EDU (Tom M. Blenko)
- Subject: Re: Yamaguchi's and Boitano's boots and blades
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.231845.3408@cs.yale.edu>
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- Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:18:45 GMT
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- | Gold Seal blades are also tapered, making them harder to sharpen
- | reliably, according to some folks who sharpen skates around here.
- | They mentioned that they like the Vantage blade because it is not
- | tapered but straight and flat. I believe with the tapered blades
- they
- | have to continually adjust the equipment as they sharpen, while one
- setting
- | will do for blades with straight sides.
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- They're not tapered front-to-back, they're tapered blade-to-boot.
- This means that some sharpening equipment has problems maintaining a
- bite on the blade as the stone moves front-to-back.
-
- Tom
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