>these blades look barely used...
The constant width of the hard steel line could just be the result of very careful sharpening, by someone trying to maintain the original profile.
Rust spot and the peeling chrome (nickle?) layer, on both blades. Also many scratches near the nut. Doesn't look new. Unless the damage occurred during storage rather than use.
Drag pick is at a weird angle, not like freestyle blades. Why is it there at all?
Not many scratches on the sides. But is possible with very careful sharpening. I grant most people occasionally click blades together and scratch.
>Actually, blades weren't designed with removable runners back in the day.
I had seen some pictures of turn-of-the century blades which were bolted, and had removable runners, and just assumed that's what these were. I know people who used to use blades (hockey and figure) with removable runners, from I guess the 1950s and 1960s.
MK and Wilson and Riedel have advertised they are "Silver Soldered" together.
Some other brands are riveted together (mostly very cheap blades), or screwed and glued (Paramount and Ultima Matrix II).
I don't know of any brands that are cast together - do you?
I actually think bolting together with removable runners would still make sense, but with round holes instead of slots. I've seen a few old hockey blades like that, and Ultima Matrix I did that too.
>They're probably from the 1950's, when steel and metalworking factories technology advanced using war-time technology. These particular blades have measures at the adjustment points, so I don't think your theory about removable runners fits.
I don't know much metalurgy, but what tells you they aren't turn-of-the-century? I think the "measure" (what needs to be measured?) is a retaining screw, so the blades wouldn't slip too much.
The MK factory used to be in Sheffield. But I was told it moved around a decade ago, when another company merged them into one factory with Wilson. Is the new factory in Sheffield too?
BTW Sheffield Steel is a trademark, unrelated to MK, I think. Mike claims modern MK and Wilson blades use steel from a German factory, not from Sheffield. But perhaps the steel used to come from Sheffield.
So many people here have posted here about Figures, plus I know people here who teach it. I assumed it was coming back. And that it would be very hard for most people to find blades. Not So? Besides, was joking.