Pair of brand new Gold Seal blades

[@SterlingSnyder-ef5yc]

It is fortunate that the little flat spot falls in the non-skatable-zone and should have virtually no impact on how the blade skates. Sadly, I have a pair where one blade has a flat, a little lager, about one inch behind the NSZ where it really will have an impact.

[@Annisk8s]

Unfortunately this seems to be more and more common issue in brand new Wilson blades. It is not catastrophic when its close to the toe picks and if you have cross grinder, but still I would not like to see that in new blades. I do never see same issue in factory new Ultima blades. Wilson seems still to use lots of manual work in their manufacturing processes. Example NSZ lengths may vary quite a lot between the blade pairs and even between right and left blade. I agree that more further from the toe picks the flat spot exist, more severe it is. Usually I see these badly destroyed spinning rockers in the blades which has been sharpened several times with Prosharp machine.