The quality of steel affects the way your sharpener sharpens your skates. It affects the way the skate feels on the ice. It affects how you have to maintain your skates. It affects how much you have to pay for your skates.
It affects your Sharpening. A hockey coach I once worked with said to me.” you cannot make chicken soup from chicken poop no matter how hard you try” . So if the quality of steel you are working on is poor it is difficult to get the best possible skate sharpening. So when purchasing your next pair of skates give just a little extra thought and ask the question is this good steel. A cheap quality steel is going to rust. Probably quickly as it is going to have a high carbon content. It will probably also have a nickle coating(used to prevent rusting). Some companies use…
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Sk8tr 
Great post! Agree with a lot of the info and comments. Educating hockey players on the safety and performance that a good quality set of runners can offer is important and one of our key goals.
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