RED and CHROME

The color of the StayBent for the 2009 season is going to be Red and Chrome. We will post a photo as soon as we have one. The color looks Awesome!!!

2009 - Made in the USA

Made in the USA - fellow Speedskater, Don C ownes a machine shop Alton Manufacturing and is making two of the main parts for us.

StayBent Owners for the 2007 and 2008 Seasons

We are going to list all our StayBent Sharpening Frame Owners by season starting with the 2007 and 2008 seasons:

2008
Jordan Malone
Apolo Ohno
Allison Baver
Chris McLaughlin
Cherise Wilkins
April Medly
Charles Leveille
JR Celski
Jeff Simon
Anita van Doorn (Holland)
Freek van der Wart (Holland)
Ian Baranski
Ansis Robs
Craig Pielechowski
Jerry Roberts
Aly Dudek
Landon Hatfield
Tina Koenig
Liz Looby
Mitch Conley

2007
Kevin Graf
Claude Gilbert
Marty Medina

Improvement #7, The Bottom Knobs

We found out from Allison Baver that it was difficult to tighten the jig to the middle bar and sometimes it came loose. So we swapped out the round knobs to ones with grips to get a little more leverage when tightening. This worked out well for her and getting it nice and tight is much easier with the new knobs.

New Knob Style:

Improvement #6, Engraving!

We have Engraving! By doing the engraving as a plate instead on right on the frame we can do them as needed. It will probably have to be an up-charge next season, but this season we are doing them for free.

Improvement #5, The Swivel

Old Style New Style
This improvement comes from a suggestion from Apolo Ohno. He was looking to get more blade up when sharpening and suggested a thinner swivel. Note the one on the left has a lip below and the one on the right has no lib below. This gives an additional 1/8" of clearance and does not sacrifce clamping stability. All swivels will be done like this New Style one moving forward.

Allison Baver's StayBent Sharpening Frame

Our second StayBent Sharpening Frame sale went to Allison Baver. And again, nothing like starting these off at the top!

We could not resist doing a custom color for Allison. She really wanted Carolina Blue so we did this one up for her with her favorite color.

Notice the engraving "Allison Baver - Team USA". Apolo had his name engraved on his too. We found out this was going to be too expensive too which really made Apolo and Allison's truly unique.