I'll message you the contact information a bit later.

Good luck.  I'd probably try Avanta myself.

Quote from: AlbaNY on November 18, 2024, 03:46:23 AMMany skaters I know go to a lady in Skaneateles for fittings, and I have her info if you want.

Thanks. I want. My relatives live near Ithaca. Skaneateles is the closest.

I keep trying to reach people at Jackson, Riedell and Graf, for their referrals, and info on whether they can accommodate my feet. So far no luck.

Each skate brand that uses 3D scanners (CCM [for hockey ], Jackson, maybe Graf), has their own scanner, which are incompatible. I think the CCM one just lists the closest stock CCM size, much like Dr. Scholl's insole fitters.

I'm tempted to check out Avanta. Maybe they have less business since their public conflict with Karen Chen, so their delay isn't too long...

Aura has stopped making custom figure skates. But their contact number, near Chicago, is also Avanta's.

Given the high cost of custom figure skates, it might be worth driving somewhere like Chicago if I thought they could do it right.

I don't even know for certain that I need custom boots. But my toes are close to twice as wide as my heel, and heel-to-toe vs arch-length (i.e. heel to ball on the inside edge of the foot) would lead to 1 shoe size different. Plus, I think I want a horizontal footbed, with no bend line and no forwards tilt, though I should really try some sort of experiment to see if I can use that.

I also want to buy Blademaster BRPD1 because of its compact and portable. But there is too little information about it so it is difficult to choose because of the high price.

Everything does seem to be going very well.  I will be keeping p with updates from now on.
Now, to pick a new theme...

It appears that Karma was removed because it could easily be abused.  The current system uses "Likes", which is currently activated.

Quote from: AlbaNY on November 15, 2024, 07:39:44 AMThanks for all the hard work and time spent. 

Is GOE coming back?

That feature was called "Karma" or "Reputation."  I don't see how to activate it in this version of the software, but I'll see if I can figure it out. ☺

I don't know about the scanner aspect, but Dave at Westside in Long Island City is very good at custom fittings.  I went through him for my customs, and I see a lot of people on other skating focused internet chats recommending the same for the NY region.

Upstate is a broad term.  I liked the advice that Cassie at Northern Ice & Dance in Potsdam gave me when I was starting out and would trust her for a fitting. 
There's a shop in Boston (a few hundred miles from upstate NY?) that many people recommend also.  I knew skaters who went there for custom Harlick fittings.  I'd have to check on the name.
Many skaters I know go to a lady in Skaneateles for fittings, and I have her info if you want.  Again, I never saw a 3d scanner except that I think Westside had something like that for Auras? 

This is going to sound nuts, and I admit I don't understand all the issues.

But what if you took a solidly built, stable drill press, and used it to spin the wheel. Some drill presses have tracks for two-way sliding vices, which might be adapted to hold the blade.

And many drill presses let you adjust the height. So you could use calipers to adjust it to about half the thickness of the blade, to center the wheel on the blade.

And a good drill press might have all the power you would need.

But I haven't a good idea for dressing the wheel.

What if instead of dressing a grinding wheel, you use Sparx sharpening rings, or something similar? (That means you can only use the available ring radiuses, whereas a commercial skate sharpening machine lets you vary the radius continuously.)

I admit that good drill presses aren't especially cheap.

If you need to have any parts made expensively by a machine shop, and they ever need to be replaced, you will need a machine shop to make them again. Expensive.

(I asked a mechanical engineer who worked for Tesla what a machine shop would charge to make a pair of ice skating blades - which are simpler because they have no moving parts - and he said at least $5000. Wow!)

In addition, if you ever need to replace a custom-made part, the machine might charge you just as much as the original part. Whereas replacements parts for a commercially made sharpening machine (or drill press) might be less, because they are mass produced.

I know you want to adapt Woodworking tools, which are relatively cheap, but my understanding is that they are usually not very high precision or stable tools, because the tolerances on wood parts don't need to be very tight. Because after wood parts are made, they are usually finished, which changes the size and shape of the part.

Likewise cheap bench grinders are usually designed to be guided by hand, and the tables on which the tool to be sharpened rests are oriented 90 degrees from where you need them to be to sharpen a skate blade, even if you turned the whole bench grinder 90 degrees to make the wheel horizontal.

Marlan @ Fairfax ice arena says that because my boot size differs by heel-to-toe vs arch length I should find a find a fitter with a Jackson 3d scanner who also fits custom Riedells. Any good ones within a few hundred miles of DC or upstate NY?

Quote from: Kaitsu on July 11, 2024, 12:30:05 PMLes meules ont également un voile axial et je ne suis pas en mesure de le supprimer avec mon outillage actuel. Je ne peux supprimer que le voile radial en habillant la meule et en m'assurant de supprimer les éventuels jeux, qui existent généralement entre l'arbre de la broche et le trou central de la meule. C'est le mieux que je puisse faire pour le moment. Si quelqu'un a de meilleures connaissances , je suis ouvert aux conseils.
De plus, si quelqu'un a une solution pour équilibrer la meule sur la rectifieuse, je serai heureux d'entendre comment elle est faite. Les instructions du manuel d'utilisation d'IE ne sont pas une solution pour moi.

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mon cher kaitsu,
je pense que vous pourriez utiliser un porte diamant comme cette affuteuse de foret de perceuse ou fraiseuse ( si on peut traduire).
Par contre vous pourrez le faire que sur le dessus de la meule mais dans votre cas les rondelles collées generont!
car en ajoutant des rondelles , c'est logique je pense que la meule n'est plus équilibrée dans ce sens!