- Joined
- May 27, 2018
I recently bought some gently-used Coronation Aces, freshly sharpened, and tried them on the ice for the first time today. I heard a horrible scraping sound every time I moved, and it was really hard to get onto my outside edges. It seems likely that I need a realignment to fix the over-pronation (not usually a problem for me), but any ideas as to what is causing this noise? I tried googling it and it seems that some people get weird noises from blades that are sharpened unevenly. Others suggest that it's not the blades being unevenly sharpened, but instead unevenly mounted - that is, one side is screwed in further than the other, causing the blade to tilt, so that even on a "flat," one edge would be higher off the ice, and when on an edge, the side with the edge that was slightly longer could brush against the ice, causing scraping?
I saw a recent thread about blade misalignment where the poster said they were accumulating a lot of snow on the blades - this is happening to me, too, much more than ever happened on my previous blades. It's also a deeper hollow than I'm used to, but it doesn't make sense for that to be causing this ugly noise. (It's not a toepick noise, and not a good "crunch/rip" of an edge, but instead a loud and continuous scraping sound.)
Would love feedback if anyone has experienced this! I will return to my skate sharpener and see if he can fix this, but it will take a while before I can get there, so in the meantime, I'm sitting at home feeling confused about my blades and hoping for some insight... Thanks!
I saw a recent thread about blade misalignment where the poster said they were accumulating a lot of snow on the blades - this is happening to me, too, much more than ever happened on my previous blades. It's also a deeper hollow than I'm used to, but it doesn't make sense for that to be causing this ugly noise. (It's not a toepick noise, and not a good "crunch/rip" of an edge, but instead a loud and continuous scraping sound.)
Would love feedback if anyone has experienced this! I will return to my skate sharpener and see if he can fix this, but it will take a while before I can get there, so in the meantime, I'm sitting at home feeling confused about my blades and hoping for some insight... Thanks!