Classic figure skate sharpening fails, part 2

Also these skates has been sharpened in the figure skate shop. This shop does repeat same mistakes again and again. Due this, Its very easy to recognize skates which has been purchased from this shop. Often skaters skates several months with these kind of skates wondering why they have difficulties to do things other can do or what they were able to do before new skates. Wasted practicing time can be expensive, so you should learn these few very basic things so that you are able to check your blades after the sharpening.

[@gerardmarc5926]

Tes vidéos sont superbes, et surtout super bien filmées et très bien expliquées. Tu es le meilleur affûteur que je connais et tu dois très certainement être un des meilleurs affûteur au monde. Continue à faire cela.

[@Annisk8s]

Thank you Marc for your kind words! I don't think I'm the best in the world. My secret is that I'm willing to spend more time sharpening s and development than the pros. Just like you. A very important characteristic of a good sharpener is that you are more interested about the quality than in making skates with as little effort as possible. There is always something what could be improved in your own work and that is what motivates me. You are never the world best, because everyone has their own weaknesses / limitations. If I would like to be closer to world best title, I should grind blades using pattern and polish the hollows to mirror finish. They are still on my development to-do-list. Since I've never even skated on figure skates, my opinions are based on measurements or something what I can visually or audibly witness. What I bring up is the opposite of many other videos where they mostly hype something they don't even understand. Maybe I'm a hardened pessimist, but I feel like I only see problems. How much these problems that I bring up affect skating, everyone has to judge for themselves.

[@gerardmarc5926]

il est difficile de traduire ce que vais ecrire ici mais j'espère que tu comprendra: ma fille m'a demandé de lui affuter ces patins, alors qu'ils en avaient pas tellement besoin, et sa maman( ma femme) me dit' ils étaient plus coupant/tranchant quand c'était le magasin qui affutait'. Attention , elle n'a pas dit qu'ils étaient mieux affutés par le magasin mais juste plus tranchant/coupant. Et c'est là que ta vidéo est super interessante car on voit trés bien les dents de scie! C'est super facile à faire ces dents de scie! Tout comme toi, et tu le sais j'équilibre le mieux possible mes meules et j'arrive à éviter ces dents de scie et c'est en cela que débute un bon affuteur... je répète sans cesse cela à ma femme qui ne comprends pas bien, même si elle me fait confiance. Nous n'avons toujours pas de patinoire dans ma ville de puis 2 Ans et faisons toujours 140 km pour amener ma fille patiner 2 fois par semaine, et elle est toujours 2eme ou 3eme meilleure française à 12 ans avec mon affutage et je reste persuadé qu'il vaut mieux avoir des patins bien affutés que mal affutés!

[@Annisk8s]

I can understand your writings. Google translates pretty nicely. Chatter-marks are very common issue. In my opinion if affects more to gliding properties than how sharp edges feels. You can get razor sharp edges by using coarse grit wheel on machine, by dressing wheel with fast movement, using coarse hand hone for deburring and tilting the hand hone more than needed in the deburring phase. With my experience skaters does not like razor sharp edges, because skates feels even too sharp in the beginning and you need skate longer before the edges feels normal again. My target is that skates feels "normal" right after the sharpening. Imagine that you should sharpen blades day before competitions. Can you do it, if skates requires one week running in period? Even I have not seen either of the sharpening s you mention, I am confident that you are doing better job than any other sharpener in France. You are interested about technical things and you try to develop your selves and your methods all the time. That it what I appreciate!