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Got my Vaughn V7 (33+2" double break) pads yesterday but again the pictures were left untaken. The pads were worse than I hoped for but still well in playable condition. Just have to get rid of the leather straps that are allover and make a new pair of elastic toe straps and some minor fiddling. And add the PE slideplates to the knee landings. Maybe after few uses I'll get into them deeper to fix some wear spots and see how the internals are doing . Pictures will be here later.

You mean where I'm living in eh? Finland. Pirkanmaa region JRZ is familiar from Bauer Total Ones I have and Reactor 9000 and Itech X-wing were made by JRZ too I think.

These are what I plan to use on the "Vegas" set but actually some might say I'm after MAF set. Well what ever. Size comparison to Bauer Total One NXG There is quite a lot to do with these gloves but there's no reason hurry.

So this came to an end. Happy ending with everything worked out and looking nice. Tennisball catching was super easy and the glove feels really nice. Even me being a huge fan of pinky and thumb loops I don't really miss the pinky loop here. Maybe the single finger stalls have an effect on that. Mid lane is laced loosely to have some slack there when glove is closed. Getting it fully open needs a bit of assistance pushing it flat against my hip etc but closure is excellent and soft. Nothing to tell on the back hand side. Forgot to take a picture from inside the cuff and that freed up wrist strap. But didn't even notice the whole strap anymore and while thinking about it I don't even know if it was tightened at all. So this glove might fall into those that I don't need to use the wrist strap at all. Nice. Now I should get on with that VE8 C/A and RBK pads to get them done. Maybe we might get on ice in july atleast. The Indian variant of the Corona is starting to mess things up again.

Not a single picture in between but then again it was only lacing things up and made some new holes to the ends of the T. That was actually pretty easy as the original version was closing very nicely so I just added the 15mm to both ends to extend the perimeter close to the 114cm limit. Lip leathers got some extra holes to the bending areas to soften them a little and plastics I made from 3mm sheet this time to make them rigid as lip is quite long now. It is really a lot the same as the Vaughn VE8 glove. Operates smoothly but not the softest I have. Closure is excellent and the glove feels very good. Have to say that all of the used Vapor and Supreme pro gloves I've tried on have felt really bad, stiff closing and closure has been of in defferent ways. But seemingly it can be worked out and made to work again. Now some pocket lacing and back hand protection and it's good to go.

For what I know about, no one ever recommends the lowest price point C/A to anyone. And sure for a reason. You get good used one for same money as new lowest level gear. And mid and pro gear are usually worth the money. Get the best you can afford. Warrior is good in naming their gear but would be simple and logical if was like X3 Pro - X3 SR - X3 and wide version named with extra + or something like that. And then again do they really need the third level in the lineup?

Yeah we Finns are all Ps and Ks Peksi hasn't announced yet about his future. But I'd say his out of the big lights. Would be a good timing as Preds have good roster on goalies. What metering system do you use? I've never heard of any such long distance device. Libre 1 is barely 10cm and NFC operated. Libre 2 is BT but range is still pretty short. Ofcourse you can add a device in between to send data futher away. But it get complicated at the same time.

Yes Libre 1. I only use the original reader so far, but have been planning for mobile phone. Just waiting to have it happen I've only had 2 or 3 times I've fallen low while playing and a few times risen high. Highs do make me feel dizzy and slow but no other problem, the lows are far worse for playing. I would believe it would be difficult to make into NHL or even any highest level league being a goalie with t1d. Just is too unpredictable and there's no time to recover when problem would occur. Had to fix Kahkonen -> Kakko. Kahkonen is a goalie. But I didn't actually now about Kakko being t1d.

Meaning 140g of nice and energetic carbonhydrates? Just checking that we use the same type of insulin injections. 100IU or something else. I haven't been into beer more than one or two and haven't noticed any huge blood sugar changes. But then again, I have a beer within meals so there's a lot more to rise the sugar levels...

So it's atleast two of us then.

Did forget to take any pictures but tomorrow is a new day. Got the gloves for the set; Eagle Fusions in gold and black. Man those are huge, like really huge. And the geometry of blocker is awkward to say, feels like the plate goes up to elbow and palm is located close to the lower edge. The blocker is a mess but should be repairable, catcher is a lot better and needs some small repairing only, unless....

My spelling in English is lacking a lot but wouldn't it be more like O.Full? A would fit my first name better though. HalfFast isn't bad either, has also multiple meanings in it. Keep'em coming.

For a quick look I wasn't able to realize any logic between E and Pro and added +. Atleast the pictures with prices are a mess. But basically they still offer G5 like tapered model and GT2 like wider model, both named under RX3 variants.

Or in other words, gold-black pads and gloves. Which do require a Vegas Golden Knights shirt to match up and look reasonable. Going to get one from China sellers and wondering what name and number. I don't like to have my name on shirt and the number is just to have one as it comes in the price anyway. I was thinking of Full as name and number 0 referring to me being a total zero as a goalie or the other way playing shut outs all the time (not!) I like to have some meaning in things and if it can be thought of multiple ways the better. Or some historical reference like Whalers shirt with Lenarduzzi on back. But not VGK shirt with Fleury or Lehner. Gimme your ideas, English goes or I might translate some thing to Finnish if it works out. "FULL" in the meaning I look for includes a Scandinavic letter in Finnish which tend to look stupid when printed. I'll post some pictures of the gear later when I have something in my hands.

The elbow floaters seem to have a whole new thinking in them. Is it an attempt to make the robot arm (floater atleast) to work with the normal style sleeve. Knowing Warrior design enthusiasm it should be better than the last versions. Very interesting to see that IRL. Othervise the gear looks like an facelift with some minor tweaks. And I like that way too as that gear it pretty solid atleast for my style.

I think I would be more terrified to do these operations to something I don't own For what's it worth, some repairs were done, the edge got some black jenpro. Sewing went over with one stich, twice. T got a new lip and holes were covered to make new ones a with a bit more length into it. Bindings were still waiting if some problems would occur. I didn't realize until now that Bauer is also using the same pure white jenpro as Vaughn. And my natural white jenpro looks a bit off (or dirty) here again. Those million holes from previous fixing look annoying but I didn't do anything to them while I could've. So be it for now. Reinforced the boot with some stiching also, there was a little tearing starting which hopefully is stopped now. Some new holes when the glove is ready for it and I have to figure out the plastics to the lip as the original ones were cut and will also be too short with the coming extension.

When I started as a goalie about 2 years ago I used the suspenders over my chesty but once I figured this setup I've never looked back to suspenders. The freedom without them is just so amazing. I could try the setup without inner belt also, I don't know how much it actually does but keeps the pants somewhat on place. Maybe it would be even more mobile without the belt. Think I'll give it a try when we get back on ice some day.

There is also XRD while it isn't advertised. Atleast from the feel and color of the material. Sewn in under the nylon fabric. This is the same textured fabric that is used on the outside. There is also the "normal" nylon fabric used, which is kind of funny, mixing these materials. Then some sewing to fix that one seam and some other factory sews that were already gone or close to it. Still have to open the finger edge and make a fix to the edge there. Grey or black Jenpro, that's the question. So the plastic part of the glove. There is that same styrofoam used as it's model the CCM 590 uses. And the plastic is destroyed the same way as the CCM ones use to break. Again we have the wrist strap going around the wreckage and I can't keep myself from thinking that it is the reason for this happening. As said in the VE8 project the same goes here; excellent copy of the original, it even breaks the same way! Break line cut is once again awkward and will definitely have some effect on closure. Luckily I can once again try and fix this.

Got too exited about it and here we go First a test of how would it look and feel if the lip was extended 15mm from both ends. Feels the same but the pocket size is getting huge! Similar size when comparing to the VE8 lip length. Very similar glove in many other ways too, 590 copycat. I'll do the same mod for wrist strap I did to those V6 Vaughns and some CCM too. The strap originally goes through cuff plates and secures hand in. I'll route the strap around the wrist with only padding around so there will be quite a lot of extra mobility. Wrist padding already is removed in this picture. Then we get inside the glove to see how Bauer has thought of the padding. I would say pretty well, the design is really good. Soft foam (white) 5mm thick, felt 1mm and 5mm of heavier maybe MD foam (camping mattress style) There also a strip of XRD foam in the middle of the break area, double 3mm of that in total. Should protect the palm pretty well. Layered picture of it.

Bauer Vapor 1X custom (double T) 1066g or 2.35lbs (2lb 5.6oz). Might include a tiny amount of water due to magic eraser being used day before.

Doing some pre-research over intterwebs and found out at some text (or video review, Hockey Reviews..?) that the Vapor 1X was too small compared to NHL regulations which is annoying from design standpoint. One would think every part of millimeter should be used out. Then took the measure and checked it out; 110.5cm of perimeter. Not an exact league measurement but gives you an idea. The only place to correct this ie. take the whole of the max width is to lenghten the lip of the T by 30 millimeters, over an inch. That is actually quite alot. Edit: friend of mine measured his 2X pros, has two identical ones, and those measured 114cm both. Edit2: re-measure of the 2X

Got a chance to buy this one so I thought it's time to see what they have changed since Reactor 9000. Payed 40 euros so it's cheap yes, but ofcourse it's not free, atleast from problems. The cuff/thumb plastic is shattered, interesting to see how bad it really is but it feels totalled. Doesn't really matter as new plastic is needed but interesting anyways. Some minor cuts in jenpro and that Cortech whatever. Also can't really close the glove completely, quick evaluation says it's the lip plastic on fingers side that is twisted and not working as it should. It's a custom one with double T. Don't know there are any other options but that is obvious. heavily used, you can tell from the binding and lacing of the pocket. Top side isn't that bad at all. Dirty yes but that is normal for used gear. Finger protector is looking worse but then again only needs some cleaning, nothing broken. Inside of the glove is really nice as it would've been washed some times. Don't really think it is though. Maybe extra glove is used underneath. Then just for exitement of new and interesting gear I used some magic eraser to see how it cleans up the Cortech and some more. While cleaning I noticed that the seam has lost the thread on thumb side and some miserable creature has tried to glue it back together. Hasn't held on and now it's interesting to see if I still can sew it with my machine. Because of the glue I can't clean it either. Magic eraser did a good job cleaning up, you can tell from the picture which parts I cleaned already. And one more of the cleaning job. This project will take some time to finish as I have to get them hanging projects done now. Just had to start this up a little. I do feel a little exited about this glove for some reason.

I just removed that "soft foam without outer wrap" from my XLT project pads

It's interesting why would someone want soft foam version as you should never have anything to do with it? Standing up your knee is against but doesn't need it to be super soft. Down on BF your knee is on knee stack and whatever knee pads your are using your would appreciate all the room there is and would be available in the knee cradle...

Not that soon though, or to be honest it came ready like a week ago but the update here took a little longer to happen First one to show what's inside the cuff. From old stiching holes you can notice a slight shift to middle which didn't feel at all but I like it as is moves my wrist more behind the cuff. Flexibility works well and this mod is highly recommended for these V6 1-piece gloves. Opens up the wrist area a lot. Nylon strap replaced the original leather one. Then some pictures just for eyecandy. The nylon looks so grouse no matter what I tried. Tadaa! The heel area of the break isn't really good but othervise I like the result. Tennisball is easy to catch even with the glove being a bit stiff compared to the softest I have. Then one family picture of the V6 2200 and far east cousin V6 1100. I couldn't get them lined up the same, 1100 was too soft hold on but only this position and then the 2200 didn't like to co-operate. Then it might be time for the V8 chesty to be completed and the RBK pads are also being mind processed. But also waiting are both 2000 and 2200 blockers and what else...