Conicity EdgeHone

04/12/2026

Congrats to one of our original customers, Nick Meldrum, and the Denver Pioneers!

01/27/2026

01/27/2026

For teams that travel with the EdgeHone we have custom built travel cases. The cases are rugged and roll like a suitcase, keeping your machine safe regardless of the abuse TSA gives them.

1- EdgeHone S2
2- EdgeHone S0

01/27/2026

A few recent machines we’ve shipped to customers.

The EdgeHone S0 is compact and portable, and gives your blades a crisp & clean edge after you’ve done a quality sharpening. Hone blades one at a time in less than 30s. Glide is now measured in days.

Regardless of how you sharpen and how you deburr the blades, there are no other honing systems that can work inside the hollow without damaging the edges.

12/31/2025

This is what burr removal is about.

05/21/2025

The finish from the Conicity EdgeHone machine is unmatched!

04/18/2025

04/18/2025

After a great '24-'25 regular season, we want to give a shout-out to our NHL EdgeHone customers and their equipment managers. Good luck in the postseason!

03/31/2025

Grinding burrs have been identified as the root cause of overall skate blade friction. The same grinding burrs are the root cause of lacerations. It's an easy option for reducing the cut hazard and getting improved on-ice performance in the same package.

Shares experience, discusses equipment options ‘as a parent’ following son’s injury scare

03/31/2025

Ever wonder why your sharpening process produces larger burrs? Perhaps a few folks will find this post interesting. To get efficient grinding of heat treated steel and to develop "manageable grinding burrs", the surface feet of the wheel must be at a level that is proper for grinding heat treated steel. That surface feet grinding speed number is between 4,000 to 6,500 SFM. That is for both vitrified and plated CBN (Cubic Boron Nitride) grinding wheels.

What does that mean? It means that the RPM of the grinding wheel needs to be delivering a speed (RPM) that allows the wheel to run at the prescribed SFM to get proper grinding.

Example: a grinding wheel that is 2" in diameter, has a circumference of (2" x 3.1416 or) 6.28" (.523 feet) around the OD of the wheel. To get to the 4,000 SFM minimum for grinding HT steel, the 2" wheel needs to be spinning at 7,600 RPM. (4,000 SFM/.523 ft).

What happens if you don't reach the minimum recommended grinding SFM? Running a grinding wheel using too low of surface feet on heat treated steel will develop higher levels of heat and wheel pressure. This will create larger, thicker grinding burrs, burrs that are very difficult to remove, perhaps even impossible by normal stoning processes.

Most skate sharpening machines do not have true grinding spindles that are capable of high RPM output. Instead, the the grinding wheels are attached to electric motors, so basically the RPM range wil fall into the 1800 to 3600 RPM band.

In some of the new CBN wheel machines as well as the older sharpening machines running vitrified wheels, the wheel diameter is between 6 and 7", so, a grinding wheel that is 6" in diameter, has a circumference of 6" x 3.1416 or 18.828" around the wheel or 1.57 feet. To get to 4,000 SFM minimum with a 6" wheel, the wheel needs to be spinning at 2,500 RPM. (4,000 SFM/1.57'). If the wheel is attached to a 3,600 RPM electric motor, the SFM for a 6" wheel is 5,700. (3,600 x 1.57'), putting the process in the mid range for efficient grinding for heat treated steel.

The result is the machines running the larger diameter wheels (CBN or Vitrified) will grind more efficently, produce less wheel pressure and heat, give a better finish, while developing much smaller burrs on the skate blade.

FYI- The burrs developed in sharpening are the root cause for high on-ice friction on skate blades as well as the root cause for the severe lacerations.

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