Why the SPARX®™ sharpener is the future of better edges

Always Better Edges saves you time and money

Having your skates sharpened by Always Better Edges saves you both time and money compared to professional services, especially for households with multiple skaters, by eliminating travel and waiting times, ensuring consistent edges/sharpness, and maintaining consistent blade profiles if you have had your blades profiled. The savings from fewer trips to the shop and the ability to sharpen whenever needed, wherever you may be when you need it, makes choosing Always Better Edges as your go to service provider for skate sharpening, a financially sound choice for everyone.

Time Savings

Convenience: Home sharpeners allow you to sharpen skates at your convenience, reducing the need to drive to a local shop. 

No Waiting: You no longer have to wait in line at a store or rink for the service to be completed. 

Instant Sharpening: You can sharpen skates in minutes, which is especially useful when you discover your blades are dull just before hitting the ice. 

Money Savings

Reduced Service Costs: The cost of multiple professional sharpening services for a household of skaters can quickly add up, making an at-home sharpener a more economical choice over time. 

Consistent Performance: Maintaining a consistent, proper edge and blade profile with an at-home sharpener improves performance and can prevent minor issues that might require more expensive professional intervention. 

Extended Steel Life: Regular, consistent sharpening maintains the integrity of the skate steel and its profile, saving you from costly re-profiling or premature steel replacement. 

Considerations for Sharpening with A.B.E rather than a retail store

Human skill vs. Precision automation: While some pro shops have competent staff operating their sharpeners, a high degree of skill is still needed to ensure optimal results, even then, operator error with each pass is unavoidable, they are only human. 

Inconsistent pressure, speed, where they are starting/finishing on the blade and at what angle they come in/out of the griding wheel is never the same and cannot match the precision of the SPARX®™ sharpener and The Sparx BEAM™.

Skate profile : If you spent your hard earned  dollars on getting you skates profiled (single, dual, triple, zuperior, eclipse, quad or even a custom profile) then taking your skates to a proshop that doesn't use a SPARX®™ sharpener or PRO SHARP®™ sharpener, then you are just erasing that profile and wasting the money spent.  Manual sharpening almost immediately (after one sharpening) removes any profile that you may have had added to your skate blade. With the SPARX®™ sharpener, the griding wheel precisely follows the profile of the blade and you do not have to be concerned about loosing the profile beyond what you normally would (6 months to 1 year to re-profile).

Leaving the comfort of your home just to wait in line and pay more:  When you factor in the travel time, the cost and the time spent waiting ( which could be hours with some shops) it makes sharpening with A.B.E the clear winner time after time.