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Originally Posted by Buff
With the question of skate sharpening, I'd like to ask about the wearing out of the blade due to sharpening. Basically how often does a person have to get new skates or new blades for their skates? I've been on my current skates for 2.5 years and have had them sharpened 20 to 25 times.
I'm worried that the place that sharpenes my skates runs the blades over the grindstone too many times.
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They do wear out over time--but it may not be anything especially bad about the place that does your skates. I have Easton skates, and the blades eventually got so thin that one of them snapped in half in the middle of a game (that was fun). On the other hand, I had some old Bauers before that for like 12 years, and never had a problem. Don't know if it's the new steel, but it does seem like a "they don't make 'em like that anymore" situation. On my eastons I've broken a blade once and another time the blade holder broke.