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Skate Sharpening

A skate blade – like any other machine – performs best when it is tuned properly.
Only Blademaster^® provides the total package of skate care solutions to properly tune your blade.
Tuning is the relationship between speed and agility. Tuning is comprised of
Skate Sharpening and Skate Contouring.

Skate sharpening is based on creating a radius of hollow (RoH) in a skate blade, which enables the skater to skate on two sharp, square edges. There is not one magic RoH for every skater. Each hollow has its advantages and disadvantages, and each skater makes an evaluation as to which is best for them. The profile of a skate blade hollow is not limited to a radius – there is an infinite number of shapes that can be transmitted onto a skate blade.

The shape that is imparted upon the sharpening wheel is created by a dressing tool. Blademaster^® has developed a dressing system that can create alternative dressings – including “flat bottom” skate blades. As the industry leader, we have the experience and expertise to design and deliver the most robust high precision dressing system on the market. Fortunately, Blademaster^®’s dressing system will be independent of the finishing head, and thus is available for all existing table top skate sharpening machines. Therefore, each finishing head will have the flexibility of a traditional radius or any ‘alternative’ wheel dressing. Would you buy a new car just to try a new set of tires? Alternative wheel dressing (or ‘form dressing’) has been in the machine tool business for decades. As a leader in the machine tool business for 77 years, we know the critical path for imparting an alternative shape onto a sharpening wheel and then onto a skate blade.

Introducing:

Look for Blademaster^®’s BFD (Blademaster^® Form Dressing) system. It is designed and manufactured in-house by the world’s #1 provider of skate sharpening solutions and equipment. Blademaster^® innovation is backed by legendary reliability and serviced professionally in the field by a team of factory-trained technicians.