FBV Skate Sharpening & Sparx FIRE Rings

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Skate Sharpening, What Do You Get? - Radius of Hollow:    • Skate Sharpening, What Do You Get? - Radiu...  
Sharpening Skates By Mail??:    • Sparx Alternative - Quality Skate Sharpeni...  
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Flat Bottom V (FBV) sharpening is an alternative skate sharpening shape to the traditional radius of hollow sharpening (ROH). If you don’t know much about those to begin with, start here and come back to this video afterwards:    • Skate Sharpening, What Do You Get? - Radiu...  

The shape of an FBV sharpening is comprised of a flat portion to enable glide and two fangs to allow your skate blade to grip the ice surface with inside and outside edges. The Sparx FIRE rings offer a similar shape while not exactly the same. In the video I explain that this shape resembles a “flattened radius of hollow”. Check out the Sparx Hockey blog for more nuanced detail on this topic as they have a great infographic that also shows the shapes: https://blogs.sparxhockey.com/hollow-...

I picked up two FIRE rings so that I could offer these cuts for others but I also plan to switch over to the 1/2” FIRE ring myself for an extended use review. I got my skates sharpened with an FBV by mail first to try before buying:    • Sparx Alternative - Quality Skate Sharpeni...  
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